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.

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!
Looking for something Specific?
Browse through our Lab Database
16 items

Burp Suite Lab
July 29, 2026
Burp Suite Burp Suite Community Edition Ubuntu VM Burp Suite Community Edition is the free version of the industry-standard web application security testing toolkit made by PortSwigger. It sits…

Caido Lab
July 29, 2026
Caido Lab Goal The goal of this lab is to introduce Caido and its core web application security testing features. The lab uses the free Caido Basic plan and Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) as…
Compromised Web Server
July 29, 2026
Compromised Web Server When an attacker gains unauthorized access to a web server, it is deemed compromised . This typically occurs as a result of a vulnerability in the server software, the website,…

Compromised Web Server CTF Quiz
July 29, 2026
Test your knowledge of Compromised Web Server with this CTF quiz!
External Service Exploitation
July 29, 2026
Exploited External Service External service exploitation happens when an attacker gains access to a system by abusing a service that is exposed to the internet These services are not websites only -…

External Service Exploitation CTF #1
October 19, 2026
Check out this CTF challenge from Kent Ickler & Jordan Drysdale’s webcast on November 19th, 2025!
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