Website Updates
Changes, new content drops, and improvements.
Global Navigation & Branding
- Switched to a new transparent horizontal logo for a cleaner look
- Removed the dark/light mode toggle—enforcing a unified sleek dark theme
- Restructured the menu: Promoted 'Compete' and 'Resources', and grouped Attendance and EL Credit under a new 'Members' dropdown
- Introduced the notification bell with a modern dropdown for tracking website updates
- Overhauled the site footer into a structured 3-column layout (Platform, Community, Organization)
- Introduced a new simplified Home page for a cleaner onboarding experience
- Overhauled and refined the About page for a cleaner & themed introductory experience, merging the Schedule content into it
The New /practice Hub
- Transitioned Practice from basic markdown pages to a massive custom dynamic web-app layout
- Introduced a new bookmarking feature to easily save and return to specific challenges
- Introduced a new status filter (Unsolved / In Progress / Solved) and difficulty filter (Easy / Medium / Hard / Insane) for better challenge navigation
- Added new Resubmit functionality to cleanly let you try showcase and submit solutions without restarting
- Added new detailed per-category progress tracking and overall progress tracking on the homepage
- Redesigned sidebar alignments, containers, and spacing to scale dynamically like a modern app
Dedicated Compete & Resources Pages
- Compete: A dedicated hub accessible from the main nav that now actively tracks and renders placeholders for upcoming competitions
- Resources: A brand new section housing dedicated educational guides clearly separated from the interactive practice challenges
Cleanups & Removals
- Removed the old standalone Schedule page and deprecated links from the footer
- Legacy CTFs (Fall '24, Spring '25, UGAHacks X) moved to a clean categorized archive, keeping the practice section uncluttered
New Content
- Added new 'Notes' and 'Robot' challenges under Level 1 Web App Exploitation (pulled from Fall 2025 CTF)
Changes
- Added Attendance & EL Credit to the website navbar
Changes
- Retired Fall 2025 Flash CTF
- All challenges remember solved state, with a reset button to re-try
- Case-sensitive submission boxes now include a disclaimer
- Converted many case-sensitive challenges to case-insensitive
- Updated challenge container background color for better dark-mode clarity
Known Issues
- Solving retired CTF challenges may mark other retired CTF challenges as solved (use reset as a workaround)
New Challenges (Since Wave 3)
- Reverse Engineering Level 1: Password
- Forensics Level 1: Hidden
- Forensics Level 1: Embedded
- Forensics Level 1: Dishwasher
Other Changes
- Migrated Easy/Medium/Hard/Expert to Level 1-4 labels
- Moved Steganography challenges from Cryptography to Forensics
- Lowered difficulties of many challenges
- Added solution videos to many Password Cracking challenges
- Replaced static home page background with interactive neural lines + other polish
- Added animations + polish to About & Schedule pages
- Added dark theme to the Outlook calendar embed in Schedule page
- Added containers to challenges for visual clarity
- New search framework for better accuracy + speed
- Converted download links to buttons
- More clear submission boxes (still rolling out to case-sensitive fields)
- Better light theme CSS
- Removed Blue Team & Machine Learning categories
Coming Soon
- Migrate old CTF challenges into category sections
- Convert remaining case-sensitive submission boxes to case-insensitive
- More video solutions
- Frontend/backend changes planned for the 11/18 Flash CTF
New Challenges
- Password Cracking Easy: Windows
- Password Cracking Hard: Diver
- Password Cracking Expert: Rulemaker
Other Changes
- Fixed some solution guides
- Fixed the flag for a Log Analysis challenge
New Challenges
- Log Analysis Medium: Math Rock
- Network Traffic Analysis (Easy & Medium, sourced from picoCTF)
- Binary Exploitation Medium: Overflow
- Password Cracking Hard: Fusion
Other Changes
- Added Solution Guide for Spring 2025 CTF
- Added Solution Guide for UGAHacks X CTF
- Fixed many broken/unstable links
- Branding update (logo & color palette)
New Challenges
- Cryptography Medium: CrowdSteg
- Password Cracking Medium: Masked
- Forensics Medium: Protected
- Web App Exploitation Medium: Top Card Maverick (solution guide pending)
Other Changes
- Solution Guide for our first CTF is live!
- Updated Password Cracking Easy: RockYou solution guide with hashing background