Roppers

We teach free computing and security courses with the goal of introducing as many beginners to Capture the Flag competitions as we can.

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

Are you a student looking to learn the fundamentals, or a teacher looking for resources to point people to?

Check out our four free courses and a community dedicated to teaching beginners about Computing Fundamentals and Security.

https://t.co/IuYkttWI1P

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

I get why training/certification orgs lie about these sorts of things, but when you see non-profits parroting these lines it gets ... confusing. Would be worth someone spending the time tracking down the many incentives for the various groups that perpetuate this nonsense.

[Jake Williams @MalwareJake]

Can we PLEASE stop with the "there's 750,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the US?"

I don't care what the "official" numbers are because it's certainly not reflective of the job market.

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

This is an awesome introduction to Reverse Engineering via picoGym from a good friend of Roppers!

[Dane Brown @DrBHacking]

#PicoCTF is just days away!!

To encourage participation, I created my FIRST YouTube video to help beginners get up to speed by solving 12 #ReverseEngineering challenges on their platform SLOWLY.

I hope it gives someone confidence to try these problems 😃
https://t.co/KNGXUs0bwv

[picoCTF @picoctf]

🚨 Reminder: picoCTF 2024 Opens March 12 at 12:00pm ET! 🚨
Hey hackers, coders, and cybersecurity aficionados! 🌟 The countdown is on!
picoCTF 2024 is about to kick off. Registration is open.

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

Plenty of people can work in cyber, but not everyone can write sploitz and make it happen. Shout-out to the CTF teams who made it into the post

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

Absolutely 🔥 writeup on the i-Soon leaks
https://t.co/xTkjlE4efs

Great insight into the actual meaningful takeaways we can learn from the leak, but at Roppers we are most excited about the clear ties drawn between the 🇨🇳 CTF community and hacking companies.

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

The other official position of Roppers is that the @ONCD are pretty cool people and we agree with them on just about everything but this.

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

https://t.co/1lwrzZy7FK

Roppers strongly opposes this press release: memory safety is a skill issue. At Roppers, we support the second amendment right granted to us by the Founding Fathers to rip out a couple hundred lines of C and push to main.

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

What I'm saying is the official position of Roppers Academy as an educational organization is write C well, and get good. "Get good" is the important part, not rewriting in Rust.

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

It's that time of year, picoCTF! Starting in two weeks, just enough time to get ready and be on top of your game for the best event of the year!

[picoCTF @picoctf]

📢Registration is open for picoCTF 2024!
🔗 How to Register:
Visit https://t.co/BYRHyel0nx, sign in, and click on "Register".
Start warming up with our practice challenges to get a head start.
📅 pico 2024 runs March 12-26!
#picoCTF2024 #Cybersecurity #CarnegieMellon

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

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[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

Currently at the @USCyberGames Draft Day! Some fantastic athletes being selected, Season III is going to be awesome! Let me know if you have any questions!

[picoCTF @picoctf]

Diversity in CTFs is having its moment at the @CyLab Partners Conference. 🎓📊
"Breaking Barriers: "Increasing Diversity in CTF competitions" – A research journey fueled by dedication to change from @CMU students and @HananHibshi, with the support of our amazing sponsor,@Cisco

[LiveOverflow 🔴 @LiveOverflow]

I will always retweet CTF propaganda

[Perri Adams @perribus]

CTF was my gateway drug into computer security… so I’d be careful with those links ;)

And what I told Ryan is true — when I joined @rpisec in college I didn’t what x86 was & they refused to give me a disassembler until I wrote a buffer overflow exploit with objdump -d -M intel

[Ryan Naraine @ryanaraine]

I asked DEF CON CTF organizer Perri Adams about the make-up of a good capture-the-flag player and for recommendations for someone now getting started @perribus

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

Check out our new(ish) Technical Security Fundamentals course! This course assumes some strong command-line skills and teaches how computer security really works! https://t.co/SWMxkD8qNG

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

If you are a teacher and are interested in learning how I can help you teach this material, hit me up! If you know teachers who might be interested in this, get me in contact with them! It's going to be hard to get the first adopters and build momentum, but it will be worth it.

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

While we haven't been tweeting, Roppers is still going strong! Check out our new effort intended to help teachers supplement their existing curriculum with self-guided computing and security training!
https://t.co/wLzFHAfP62

[Roppers @RoppersAcademy]

These changes are important steps towards making Roppers easier to incorporate into classrooms around the world. The next main steps will be getting the Roppers Teaching Guides completely nailed down and actually finding the brave teachers who want to try out the material.