Category c3t

C3T Tryout Challenges - Stevie and Ray

Stevie Wonder and Jamie Foxx playing the role of the late great Ray Charles For our internal CTF for tryouts the past two years, I have had a series of...

Cadet Competitive Cyber Team finishes in Top 10 at competition

This article previously appeared here. Four members of the Cadet Competitive Cyber Team (C3T) spent 36 straight hours over Veterans Day Weekend hacking into New York University, Tandon School of...

Category ctf

Behind the Badge: Building the North Pole Police Department for Holiday Hack 2017

Puns, police snowmobiles, hidden messages, and a few things nobody actually needed to solve. In December 2017, the folks at SANS and Counter Hack Challenges released another edition of the...

TryHackMe - Advent of Cyber 2

TryHackMe is back this year with another 25 days of beginner CTF challenges featuring some guest challenge authors. Another great daily challenge to get your cyber-skillz fresh during the holidaze....

TryHackMe - Madeye's Castle Writeup

Solve for Hogwartz-Castle Box from TryHackMe Introduction This is a writeup for the TryHackMe box that I built called Madeye’s Castle, hope you enjoyed it.

VirSecCon CTF - Eyeless SQL

VirSecCon CTF was the CTF as part of the Virtual Security Conference in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. This CTF was put on by John Hammond and featured many...

NeverlanCTF 2020 - Web Challenges

Getting started with CTFs can be intimidating but over the past 5 years we have seen a boom in the number of CTF events aimed at the middle school and...

picoCTF - Insp3ct0r with Jupyter

I am experimenting with Jupyter notebooks for solving CTF problems. Here is a notebook converted to a blog entry. You can find the original Jupyter Notebook file here

picoCTF 2019 - Shark on the Wire 2 aka 'Mama Shark'

Back to another picoCTF challenge, this time to a challenge that is more in my wheelhouse. Network traffic forensics… specifically “shark on the wire 2” for 300 points. There is...

picoCTF 2019 - Overflow 1 - 'A PWNy For Your Thoughts'

I have never really been that great at binary exploitation challenges. But I am fascinated with return oriented programming attacks and the concept of weird machines. To this end, I...

C3T Tryout Challenges - Stevie and Ray

Stevie Wonder and Jamie Foxx playing the role of the late great Ray Charles For our internal CTF for tryouts the past two years, I have had a series of...

2016 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge Writeup

The great folks at SANS and CounterHack have brought us another adventure in the land of Josh and Jessica Dosis. This year’s challenge is called Santa’s Business Card. The game...

Cadet Competitive Cyber Team finishes in Top 10 at competition

This article previously appeared here. Four members of the Cadet Competitive Cyber Team (C3T) spent 36 straight hours over Veterans Day Weekend hacking into New York University, Tandon School of...

Category holidayhack

Behind the Badge: Building the North Pole Police Department for Holiday Hack 2017

Puns, police snowmobiles, hidden messages, and a few things nobody actually needed to solve. In December 2017, the folks at SANS and Counter Hack Challenges released another edition of the...

2016 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge Writeup

The great folks at SANS and CounterHack have brought us another adventure in the land of Josh and Jessica Dosis. This year’s challenge is called Santa’s Business Card. The game...

Category python

picoCTF - Insp3ct0r with Jupyter

I am experimenting with Jupyter notebooks for solving CTF problems. Here is a notebook converted to a blog entry. You can find the original Jupyter Notebook file here

C3T Tryout Challenges - Stevie and Ray

Stevie Wonder and Jamie Foxx playing the role of the late great Ray Charles For our internal CTF for tryouts the past two years, I have had a series of...

2016 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge Writeup

The great folks at SANS and CounterHack have brought us another adventure in the land of Josh and Jessica Dosis. This year’s challenge is called Santa’s Business Card. The game...

Category web

Behind the Badge: Building the North Pole Police Department for Holiday Hack 2017

Puns, police snowmobiles, hidden messages, and a few things nobody actually needed to solve. In December 2017, the folks at SANS and Counter Hack Challenges released another edition of the...

TryHackMe - Advent of Cyber 2

TryHackMe is back this year with another 25 days of beginner CTF challenges featuring some guest challenge authors. Another great daily challenge to get your cyber-skillz fresh during the holidaze....

TryHackMe - Madeye's Castle Writeup

Solve for Hogwartz-Castle Box from TryHackMe Introduction This is a writeup for the TryHackMe box that I built called Madeye’s Castle, hope you enjoyed it.

VirSecCon CTF - Eyeless SQL

VirSecCon CTF was the CTF as part of the Virtual Security Conference in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. This CTF was put on by John Hammond and featured many...

NeverlanCTF 2020 - Web Challenges

Getting started with CTFs can be intimidating but over the past 5 years we have seen a boom in the number of CTF events aimed at the middle school and...

picoCTF - Insp3ct0r with Jupyter

I am experimenting with Jupyter notebooks for solving CTF problems. Here is a notebook converted to a blog entry. You can find the original Jupyter Notebook file here

2016 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge Writeup

The great folks at SANS and CounterHack have brought us another adventure in the land of Josh and Jessica Dosis. This year’s challenge is called Santa’s Business Card. The game...

Category pwn

picoCTF 2019 - Overflow 1 - 'A PWNy For Your Thoughts'

I have never really been that great at binary exploitation challenges. But I am fascinated with return oriented programming attacks and the concept of weird machines. To this end, I...

Category pico

picoCTF 2019 - Shark on the Wire 2 aka 'Mama Shark'

Back to another picoCTF challenge, this time to a challenge that is more in my wheelhouse. Network traffic forensics… specifically “shark on the wire 2” for 300 points. There is...

picoCTF 2019 - Overflow 1 - 'A PWNy For Your Thoughts'

I have never really been that great at binary exploitation challenges. But I am fascinated with return oriented programming attacks and the concept of weird machines. To this end, I...

Category network

picoCTF 2019 - Shark on the Wire 2 aka 'Mama Shark'

Back to another picoCTF challenge, this time to a challenge that is more in my wheelhouse. Network traffic forensics… specifically “shark on the wire 2” for 300 points. There is...

Category pcap

picoCTF 2019 - Shark on the Wire 2 aka 'Mama Shark'

Back to another picoCTF challenge, this time to a challenge that is more in my wheelhouse. Network traffic forensics… specifically “shark on the wire 2” for 300 points. There is...

Category beginner

NeverlanCTF 2020 - Web Challenges

Getting started with CTFs can be intimidating but over the past 5 years we have seen a boom in the number of CTF events aimed at the middle school and...

Category career

Promotion and Retirement

Wow… it’s been quite a day. I have been overwhelmed with all the emails, texts, calls, slack messages, owls and carrier pigeons, etc., congratulating me on the promotion list news...

Category writeup

TryHackMe - Advent of Cyber 2

TryHackMe is back this year with another 25 days of beginner CTF challenges featuring some guest challenge authors. Another great daily challenge to get your cyber-skillz fresh during the holidaze....

TryHackMe - Madeye's Castle Writeup

Solve for Hogwartz-Castle Box from TryHackMe Introduction This is a writeup for the TryHackMe box that I built called Madeye’s Castle, hope you enjoyed it.

Category sqli

TryHackMe - Madeye's Castle Writeup

Solve for Hogwartz-Castle Box from TryHackMe Introduction This is a writeup for the TryHackMe box that I built called Madeye’s Castle, hope you enjoyed it.

Category tryhackme

TryHackMe - Advent of Cyber 2

TryHackMe is back this year with another 25 days of beginner CTF challenges featuring some guest challenge authors. Another great daily challenge to get your cyber-skillz fresh during the holidaze....