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

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

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