Announcing our Capture the Flag Challenge: broken-navigator

Security is crucial to CrabNebula and is baked into the company’s DNA. Today, we are excited to announce a community effort to help everyday engineers level up their security awareness and knowledge through a capture the flag-style challenge called broken-navigator.

Learn more in the following video.

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Giveaway

We’re excited to see the community increase their skills while solving these issues and would love to incentivize it. To this end, we are tying this initiative together with a giveaway. Here are the prizes up for grabs:

• Third prize: a swag box containing stickers + CrabNebula branded candy + 3 months of community access to CrabNebula Cloud
• Second prize: third prize + a Nova-branded t-shirt (as in the above video), and 6 months of community access to CrabNebula Cloud
• First prize: second prize + a Nova plushie, and 1 year of community access to CrabNebula cloud

To participate in the giveaway, follow the following steps:

1. Fork the repository.

2. Play the challenges (compile and run the code).

3. Find the flags (there is 1 per challenge).

4. Share your flag on social media, mentioning us on 𝕏, LinkedIn, or our other social channels @-mentioning our account. You can use the following format as inspiration:

   I just solved challenge #1 from the capture the flag project by @CrabNebulaDev and found the flag! It’s [flag] #brokenNavigatorCTF

We will then inspect your flags and enter you into a raffle to win these prizes! The result? You:

• Level up your security skills
• Build safer apps
• Win great prizes

We look forward to your participation!