Writeup: The SANS HOLIDAY HACK CHALLENGE 2021 – Kringlecon 4 CALLING BIRDS!

It’s that time of the year again, to reveal my writeup for the Sans Holiday Hack Challenge. This time around Sans named the game “Kringlecon 4 – Calling Birds!”. My last year submission resulted in an “Honorable Mention”. Since I have had major issues with documenting massive writeups using WordPress , I have decided to

Writeup: The SANS HOLIDAY HACK CHALLENGE 2020 – Kringlecon 3 French Hens!

It’s that time of the year again, to reveal my writeup for the Sans Holiday Hack Challenge. This time around Sans named the game “Kringlecon 3 – French Hens”. My last year submission resulted in an “Super Honorable Mention”. This year I got an “Honorable Mention” under my own name. Since I have had major

Writeup: The SANS HOLIDAY HACK CHALLENGE 2019 – Kringlecon 2 Turtle Doves!

It’s that time of the year again, to reveal my writeup for the Sans Holiday Hack Challenge. This time around Sans named the game “Kringlecon 2 – Turtle Doves” and featured lots and lots of blue team related objectives. During the game I became good friends with Splunk, Graylog and various other neat tools. Since

Taking the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification

Taking the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification from ECCouncil has been on my bucket list for some years now. I planned on taking it five years ago, but never found the time to do it – until this year. In this blogpost I will share how I approached taking this certification! Attending the offical class

Writeup: The SANS HOLIDAY HACK CHALLENGE 2018 – Kringlecon

The most beautiful event of 2018 has ended. Kringlecon is over! I’m a bit sad about it because the game was just so good this year! There were plenty of interesting tasks and objectives. Everything from simple assignments such as breaking out of VI to tearing apart and analysing a malware! Heck, you even had

Hackfest 2016 Quaoar – walkthrough

Another week, another CTF under my belt. Been doing a lot of CTF games the past months. This time I took some time off my schedule to play with the hackfest2016: Quaoar game. The difficulty level on this one is pretty low, which suited me fine this time around. It’s nice to have something to

Ew_Skuzzy 1 – walkthrough

Today I am sharing my work log for the “Ew_Skuzzy: 1” CTF game. This game was released only recently, on the 17th of March 2017. As of time of writing, there haven’t been much information released about it. That adds another dimension to solving it and suits me fine. As always I have based my

An Unofficial Guide to Creating CTF VMs

Today I am going to shed some light on how to create a virtual machine for CTF gaming. This tutorial came to life after a discussion on my Discord server on how to distribute CTF games among friends. In this tutorial we’ll create a Debian based virtual machine, prep it with some software – then

Writeup: THE 2016 SANS HOLIDAY HACK CHALLENGE

After much stress in November and the beginning of December I felt I needed a break from my normal routine of writing my two monthly blog posts. One evening I sat at home wondering what to write about I found that the Sans Holiday Hack Challenge had just begun. I quickly decided to play spend

IMF – Walkthrough

This segment of my Vulnhub series covers the walkthrough for the IMF Boot2Root virtual machine. From the description: IMF is a intelligence agency that you must hack to get all flags and ultimately root. The flags start off easy and get harder as you progress. Each flag contains a hint to the next flag. Difficulty: