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As a recent article in Africa Cybersecurity Magazine points out, Africa loses an average of $3.5 billions to cybercrime. Africa is particularly affected by cyber threats, highly vulnerable to cyberattacks, and further weakened by a lack of skilled cybersecurity resources. Events like #EOCON are therefore key to motivating and encouraging talent! 💪 🚀

📆 Open to all, EOCON will take place from October 20-28 and will consist of three events :
• October 20-22 : 🚩 EyesOpen CTF - online - solo participation or teams of 2
• October 23-25 :⚙ EOWORKSHOP training workshops - online
• October 26-28 : 🗣 Digital Security Conference and Expert Panels - online. The EOCON conference will bring together business leaders, organizations and professionals from multiple locations.

Overview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUgzxFo9jY&t=40s
Details and registration here: https://eyesopensecurity.com/

Our contributors have been busy preparing new challenges over the summer: 2 new App-Script challenges are now available on the Root-Me and Root-Me Pro environments.
Thanks to Fey and nivram for their contributions 👏!

R : Code Execution - Level: easy
AppArmor - Jail Medium – Level: medium

We are also taking advantage of the new school year to relaunch our competitions in parallel with the release of challenges. 🥇 Check our networks (Linkedln OR Twitter )=> To be won: 3 months of Premium subscription to the first three users to flag the challenge "R: code execution".

Good flag to all! 🚩

For the 5th edition of the "Rencontres Cybersécurité Auvergne Rhône-Alpes", Cybercercle wanted to give a new dimension to its annual event, by creating a place where students, their schools, teachers and parents could meet to discuss the exciting challenges of cybersecurity.
📆 Tuesday, October 24,📍Hôtel de Région de Lyon, in the heart of the Confluence.

The 2 new features of the 2023 edition:
- ⏲︎ : 9:30am -6:30pm :" Hack’IN AURA ", a Capture The Flag event for middle and high school students from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region!!! 🍝 Free lunch for CTF participants - 🏆 Prize-giving ceremony at 6 p.m.
- 2pm- 6pm: hands-on workshops "Osons la Cyber!" : workshops and awareness-raising sessions for a hands-on discovery of cybersecurity issues, open to companions and CTF participants who can glean additional flags as the workshops progress 👀

Are you a student or teacher at a middle or high school in the Rhône-Alpes Auvergne Region? ➡ To take part: form a team (maximum 5 students) to represent your school and try to win. Surprises are in store for the best teams. 🎁 🎉
We’ll be bringing you more news about the event and the opening of registration soon: stay tuned!
More info: https://tdfcyber.fr/rcyberara2023/

True to our commitment to facilitating access to careers in cybersecurity, we’re more than excited to be involved again this year in this new 2023 edition of the Red Team Competition organized by Grenoble INP Esisar for high school students! 👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓

Whether you’re a novice or already on your way, this event is a unique opportunity to dive into the fascinating world of cybersecurity. 🌀 The chance to meet experts, discover trades and training, try to solve realistic challenges, ... and for teams qualifying for the final, travel with peace of mind... all expenses covered!

🔗 Register here 👉https://esisar.grenoble-inp.fr/fr/l-ecole/red-team
🗓️ Qualifying phase (online): from September 14, 2023 to October 16, 2023
🏆 Final on November 10, 2023 in Valence for the first 10 teams to qualify

If you’re a high school teacher, parent or relative of a high school student, don’t hesitate to share this opportunity!
Short teaser of the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRf1TA5t2Ho&t=49s

Our contributors have struck again  🙂 : 5 new Web-Client challenges are now available on the #RootMe and Root-Me Pro environments.
Thanks to Mizu for his remarkable work 👏!
– Self XSS - DOM Secrets
– Self XSS - Race Condition – Premium
– Browser - bfcache / disk cache – Premium
– Relative Path Overwrite – Premium
– Same Origin Method Execution – Premium

To celebrate the launch of this new series of challenges, we are offering you a little contest. 🥇=> 3 of you could win: 3 months’ Premium subscription

Conditions: be among the first 3 to flag the "Self XSS - DOM Secrets" challenge.

Share your score by tagging us on our networks: Linkedln https://www.linkedin.com/company/root-me-pro/ OR Twitter @rootme_org!

We will regularly offer you this type of challenge with a gift on the occasion of the release of our new challenges, be vigilant in order to be able to participate!!🎊
Good luck to all participants, and good flag to all! 🚩

As we announced recently, it will be held TOMORROW à 20h. It will be given by Mizu, who will present techniques to increase the criticality of an XSS.
The conference will take place in French, and can be followed on the Root-Me Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/rootme_org

If you are not available this Friday at 8 p.m., a replay will be accessible from the dedicated Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rootme_org
This event is not subject to registration: we invite you to notify your interest on the Discord Root-Me so that we can get an idea of the number of participants 👌
👉 https://discord.gg/rootme?event=1131168193906479137

Even during the summer and despite the heat, members of the Root-Me community continue their efforts to to bring new content to the platform!!! For this new batch, five new Cracking challenges have just been published on the RootMe and Root-Me Pro environments.

Thanks to the creators Lumy, Elf, 0x0ff and Kasen 👏!

Unity3D Save handling - Premium
NRO ARM - Switch homebrew
ELF x64 - Rust Backdoor - Premium
Unity - IL2CPP - Basic Game Hacking Challenge - Premium
Voracious Nanomites - Premium

Have fun and good luck to you all! 🚩

Mizu will share with us various techniques for increasing the criticality of an XSS using simple gadgets and paying attention to the safeguards put in place by the browser. We can already thank him for this eagerly-awaited talk!

SAVE THE DATE 📅 July 28 ⌚ 8pm, Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/rootme_org

On the occasion of this conference, which covers a rarely addressed topic, we’re giving away a Burp Suite Certified Practitioner certification to 2 of our followers on Twitter/LinkedIn 😉. All you have to do is like and share on these platforms. Winners will be drawn on Wednesday July 26 at 2pm and announced on July 27. It all happens here:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/root-me-pro/
https://twitter.com/rootme_org

A surprise awaits everyone at the end of the conference. We’ll tell you all about it on the big day! 👀

A new Realist challenge has just been launched, and is now accessible on the RootMe and Root-Me Pro environments. Sponsored by the company Lookout, it was created on the occasion of the recent CTF Abicom. It offers an introduction to Android exploitation.

Thanks to Mhd_Root for his creation and to Abicom and Lookout for their support 👏 !

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Have fun and good luck to you all! 🚩

Discover the journey of Isis, who in just over a year has managed his transition from cybersecurity novice to challenge creator for the community. He also takes part as a speaker during Laluka’s Twitch lives.🗣️

Isis talks about his successes and difficulties, and provides valuable resources for those who want to progress in the sector. Thank you to Isis for sharing! 🙏🏼

👀 To access the interview and all the resources shared by our members on the Root-Me blog, click here: https://blog.root-me.org/