Month: October 2021
SANS Global Community CTF: BootUp 2021
After SnykCon 2021’s “Fetch the Flag” CTF event, I was ready for more practice! I signed up for the SANS “Global Community CTF: BootUp” which ran from 10/14/2021 @ 6pm to 10/16/2021 @ 6pm for a total of 48 hours. I wasn’t able to work on this one 24-7, but the long period of time…
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SnykCon 2021 “Fetch the Flag” CTF
I had the privilege of participating in SnykCon 2021’s “Fetch the Flag” CTF event which was recently hosted by Snyk, a company that focuses on automatically finding and fixing security vulnerabilities in applications. The CTF lasted 10 hours with teams of up to 5 allowed. This was my first live CTF event, and I choose…
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TryHackMe Writeup: Peak Hill – Part II
This post is a continuation of “TryHackMe Writeup: Peak Hill – Part I” where we found the first of two flags in this “pickle” (the Python module) themed CTF. The CTF is introduced in a bit more detail in Part I as well. In this part, we continue to find the root flag by ‘pickling’…
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TryHackMe Writeup: Peak Hill – Part I
After completing TryHackMe’s “Pickle Rick” CTF, I saw John Hammond’s writeup for it which I learned a lot from. I also saw that he made a CTF room called “Peak Hill”, so I wanted to try it out. The subtitle for the CTF is “Exercises in Python library abuse and some exploitation techniques”, so I…
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