Welcome To
Free Lab Fridays

Free Lab Fridays is an initiative started by

Black Hills Information Security, Antisyphon Training, and their partner, MetaCTF

This initiative has a simple goal: Education for All.

<p><span class="ql-size-title">Welcome To </span></p><p><span class="ql-size-title">Free Lab Fridays</span></p>

HOW IT WORKS

Looking for a place to safely complete all of the labs you see?

Free Lab Fridays has the answer.

By providing your email at the link below, you will receive a special code that will grant you 2 HOURS of access to a meticulously crafted lab environment,

hosted on MetaCTF’s CloudLab platform.

On this platform, you will be able to spin up a snapshotted instance of a virtual machine that has everything you will need to complete all 200+ labs,

and the best part? It's all accessible with the click of a button.

One VM. Unlimited Capability.

What If I Use All 2 Free Hours?

Don’t worry! Come back next Friday,

and you’ll get another 2 VM Lab HOURS, for Free!

Please Note: Stacking Hours is NOT possible!

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Exploitation Of Missing HSTS

July 29, 2026

Exploitation of Missing HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) When you visit a website over HTTPS, your browser and the server agree to keep the connection encrypted. HSTS is a security header that…

CTF Missing HSTS PD-WRL-007 DD-WRL-005 OPM 541 OPM 622 NF-COM-006 CIS 3 CIS 3.10 CIS 16 TA0006 T1557 A02:2025 A04:2025

Exploitation Of Missing HSTS CTF Quiz

July 29, 2026

Test your knowledge of Exploitation Of Missing HSTS with this CTF quiz!

Lab Hashcat tools PD-WRL-007 OPM 541 NF-COM-006 CIS 5 CIS 5.2 TA0006 T1110

hashcat

July 29, 2026

Haschat Ubuntu VM In this lab we will be getting started with the fundamentals of password cracking. We will be using Hashcat to do this. After you open a terminal, we need to gain root access by…

C2 & Exfil HTTPS As Exfil PD-WRL-001 PD-WRL-003 OPM 511 OPM 531 NF-COM-006 CIS 8 CIS 8.7 CIS 9 CIS 9.3 CIS 13 TA0011 T1071 T1573 TA0010 T1041 T1048

HTTPS As Exfil

July 29, 2026

HTTPS As Exfil Once an attacker is inside a system, they need to get the data out. The obvious problem: the network is being watched. Firewalls block weird ports. Security tools flag unusual traffic.…

CTF HTTPS As Exfil PD-WRL-001 PD-WRL-003 OPM 511 OPM 531 NF-COM-006 CIS 8 CIS 8.7 CIS 9 CIS 9.3 CIS 13 TA0011 T1071 T1573 TA0010 T1041 T1048

HTTPS As Exfil CTF #1

October 19, 2026

Check out this CTF challenge from Faan Rossouw & Keith Chew’s webcast on December 12th, 2025!

CTF HTTPS As Exfil PD-WRL-001 PD-WRL-003 OPM 511 OPM 531 NF-COM-006 CIS 8 CIS 8.7 CIS 9 CIS 9.3 CIS 13 TA0011 T1071 T1573 TA0010 T1041 T1048

HTTPS As Exfil CTF Quiz

July 29, 2026

Test your knowledge of HTTPS As Exfil with this CTF quiz!

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Welcome To Free Lab Fridays

HOW IT WORKS

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Exploitation Of Missing HSTS

Exploitation Of Missing HSTS CTF Quiz

hashcat

HTTPS As Exfil

HTTPS As Exfil CTF #1

HTTPS As Exfil CTF Quiz

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