An excellent question! If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you are considering joining us for what promises to be a pretty fly BSides Canberra Capture The Flag competition in just a few short weeks. The great news is that this CTF has been specially designed to include something for absolutely everyone, no matter…
The first ever BSides Australia conference has finished up, and it was an absolute blast. I had the opportunity to contribute to the BSides CTF component by coming up with the Trivia section and creating a boot2root style challenge (aptly named Mr Robot). The challenge had a few stages to complete (including a short dance on the…
More boot2root fun with yet another pretty basic (but at times frustrating) challenge put together by maleus21 and hosted by the Supreme Leaders of Excellence and Quality Stickers, Vulnhub. While these kinds of hack games don’t typically represent what you may find in a live production environment, often you’re left with a reminder that the dual concepts of…
DEF CON 22 is just a couple of short weeks away and there’s sure to be some CTF fun there, so there’s no better time to brush up on the basics. At Vulnhub, you’ll find a ton of boot2root challenges that cover a wide range of security vulnerabilities. This challenge from the people at Pentester Labs is…
You’re probably here because you want to know about the awesome boot2root xerxes:1, correct? This was a vulnhub challenge created by @barrebas, and was excellent! So let’s get started. I found the VM sitting on 192.168.56.102 – a quick nmap scan provided a list of available services: A close look at the web service was next…