The Bonus Track: Lab Builds, Ethical Pauses, and the Flag I Didn’t Get Part one of this series covered the six base challenges of the Dragon Hunter CTF—six web security lessons, each solved cleanly, each with a neat “here’s what I found” ending. ...
Defeating the Six Dragons: My First Web Security CTF Write-Up I recently wrapped up my first CTF write-up, and it was a blast. The challenge platform was called Dragon Hunter—a themed environment with six “dragons” of escalating difficulty, each hiding a classic web security concept behind a monster-hunting persona. Here’s how I tackled all six: what I looked for, what I tried, what finally clicked, and the moments where the obvious answer turned out to be a total trap. ...