Hack In The Box Amsterdam 2012 – Preview
In less than a week from now, Hack In The Box Amsterdam will open its 2012 edition. The conference will take place in the Okura Hotel, and features 3 days of training, 2 days of quad-track talks, a CTF and HackWEEKDAY, a 12 hour hackathon hosted alongside the actual confererence. The line-up looks promising…
Continue reading
Reversing 101 – Solving a protection scheme
In this post, we’ll look at an application reversing challenge from HTS (hackthissite.org) resembling a real-life protection scheme.
Put simple, the program creates a key for your username, and compares it to the one you enter.
The goal of the HTS challenge is to create a key generator, but I just want to demonstrate how to retrieve the password.
Continue reading
HITB 2011 CTF – Reversing Vectored Exception Handling (VEH)
Today we will have a look at a CTF binary from HITB pre qualifications CTF 2011. This is an interesting binary to reverse because Vectored Exception Handling (VEH) was used in the challenge…
Continue reading
Honeynet Workshop 2011
March 21th I was in Paris for the annual Honeynet Workshop. For the first time this year there was a conference day accessible to the general public. Moreover, I didn’t have to pay the registration fee since I successfully completed one of the Honeynet Forensics challenges. The day was split in 4 sessions and had talks covering the Honeynet projects, malware, and ethical and legal considerations of tracking botnets and eventual take-downs.
Continue reading
Codegate 2011 CTF – Binary200 – Anti Debugging Techniques Explained
Aloha,
Again I stumbled upon a nice reverse-me, binary200 from the Codegate 2011 CTF.
And again there are some really interesting anti-debugging tricks implemented, so I decided to produce another video.
Continue reading
Anti-debugging tricks revealed – Defcon CTF Qualifications 2009: Bin300 Analysis
A while ago I stumbled upon an awesome write-up of a very nice CTF challenge created by sapheads: http://hackerschool.org/DefconCTF/17/B300.html I love cartoons, and I love reversing, so I decided to play a little bit with that binary (b300.exe) which was a lot of fun. Because some interesting anti-debugging tricks were implemented into the binary…
Continue reading
How strong is your fu 2 – the report
For anyone interested, this is _sinn3r’s and tecr0c’s writeup of the steps they took to own 4 out of the 5 machines in last weekend’s HSIYF – Hacking for Charity cyber hacking challenge …
Continue reading
How strong is your fu : Hacking for charity
Last weekend, Offensive Security hosted their second cyber hacking challenge, called “HSIYF For Charity”. The goal of this challenge was to raise money for Johnny Long’s “Hackers for Charity” project, a charity organization that tries to feed children, build computer labs etc in East Africa. Each challenger had to donate $49 to be able to […]
Offensive Security Hacking Tournament – How strong was my fu ?
Hi, Over the last 2 days my friends from Corelan Team and I participated in a Hacking Tournament, organized by Offensive Security. The primary goals of the tournament are : be the first one to grab “secret” information from a machine and post it to the Tournament Control Panel. document your findings and submit them […]
Donate
Your donation will help funding server hosting.
