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Midterm update
Posted by
Lachlan Waugh 🍉 Tuesday 13 October 2026, 01:17:35 PM.
Quick update, the midterm will be 1hr50mins, running from 5 minutes into the tute, until 5 minutes before the end, not the original planned 1 hour.
We didn't think an hour would be enough to adequately test your understanding of the content, so we decided to give some extra time (the midterm has historically always been 2 hours, so last year's should be a good indicator of difficulty).
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Midterm Exam
Posted by
Lachlan Waugh 🍉 Thursday 08 October 2026, 06:20:33 PM.
Hey all, some details about the upcoming midterm wargame.
Details:
- There will be 3 exploitation questions (involving topics from buffer overflows, format string and/or shellcode only) to solve, and fetch flags from the server (similar to wargames).
- All instructions are available on the exam website https://midterm.6447.lol/ (this will be made available next week). Make sure you have access to this site, and understand the instructions BEFORE beginning the exam.
- During your tutorial next week, you must attempt and submit this exam. It is worth 10% of the final mark. All submissions must be made within 1 hour of beginning the exam. No late submissions are allowed.
- Once you begin the exam (By pressing "Start"), the website will show you the password to decrypt the challenges, as well as the server Domain and Port for the challenges. You must submit within 1 hour of starting the exam
- The challenge files will be made available at the start of next week.
- Submission will be done using Give (Details will appear on the exam website). The format for submission is available on the exam website
Practice Exam
We have made a practice exam (That will look exactly like the midterm wargame next week) available at https://2025.midterm.6447.lol/.
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Help Session Friday 2pm
Posted by
Lachlan Waugh 🍉 Wednesday 07 October 2026, 02:10:44 PM.
Hey all, we'll be running a help session this Friday at 2pm in Mathews 101 to help with any course content we have covered so far.
We'll stay as late as students have questions. Note: we won't be preparing content, this is purely going to be an open-air question/answer forum. Come with questions please!
Apologies if the time doesn't work for you. This session won't be recorded or live-streamed!