Whatever you are, be a good one. — Abraham Lincoln Reconnaisance As per my usual methods, I started my attack by performing an nmap scan: PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 22/tcp open ssh…

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. — Thomas H. Palmer Reconnaisance I started my attack by performing an nmap scan: Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.133 Host is up (0.31s latency). Not shown: 65532 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 22/tcp open…

On this blog post, I will write about our answers to the Forensics challenges at TG:HACK 2019 where we luckily placed 25th out of more than 700 participating teams and scored our first Forensics first blood for this year!

This is my writeup for all of the challenges in the Forensics category of encryptCTF2019. Our team (hackstreetboys) decided to participate @ encryptCTF 2019 hosted by Abs0lut3Pwn4g3. Luckily, we finished 52nd place out of 696 participants. This is my writeup for all the Forensics challenges, which were fairly easy, but…

This is a creation-to-solution writeup about the CTF challenge I made named “The Transmission”. Inspiration Why Did You Do it? I made this challenge to prepare for a new role that I decided to undertake — a [redacted] for a huge event later this year! I was hoping that by creating this challenge, I would be…

Last weekend, my team (hackstreetboys) decided to participate in the Securinets Prequals 2K19 and were lucky enough to have landed in the 23rd place out of 729 participants. For this blog post, I will write about our solutions for the Foren(sics) category. Easy Trade

Last August 23, I got stuck at home due to unforeseen circumstances so I decided to try my luck at the DEFCON DFIR CTF 2018 (which was opened to the public last August 14). On this blog post, I will give an in-depth write-up about the tools I used (all…

I was getting so busy at work so I needed some time off to sharpen my (rusty) skills, so my team and I decided to participate in an online CTF called OtterCTF. I̶’̶m̶ ̶r̶u̶n̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶ I found the questions challenging and interesting, so I decided…

On today’s mini-feature, I’ll write about the challenge that ate up a huge chunk of my time during the CTF itself. Disclaimer: I only got to solve this after the CTF. …