On 26th and 27th August 2023, I’ve attended my first HITBSec conference in Phuket,Thailand. HITBSec Conf or the Hack In The Box Security Conference is an annual security event that security researchers and professionals around the world will come together to share their latest findings through research or experience. The conference was firsly founded in Malaysia, but then had evolved into a bigger scaled conference where it is held internationally in such that the conference held commonly at Amsterdam.

CTF or capture the flag is a hacking competition that participants race against time to solve as many challenges and gain as much points to win. There are mainly 2 types of CTF, Jeopardy-Style in which is the traditional challenge solving CTF, or Attack-and-Defence Style that competitors will hack into each other’s system while patching their own vulnerable systems.