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  • Cyber Weapons Range @ Grayhat 2020

    I took 1st place at the Cyber Weapons Range this year at Grayhat due to my speed and accuracy. Lane reservation at cyberweaponshooting.com was easy, and the Range Security Officer was professional. Thanks to everyone at Dyrwolf Inc who developed the range (and for the marksmanship badge, sticker, and certificate),...

  • STLCYBER Meetup - The Sassy Death of the Moat and Castle

    Presentation by Bill Doty at STLCYBER Current security models have revolved around the idea of a protected, safe, controlled network where IT and Cyber can apply time tested and reliable security in defensive layers to protect our crown jewels. The reality has proven to be far different, as we evolve...

  • Red Team Village CTF @ Grayhat 2020

    Red Team Village put on a CTF for Grayhat attendees hosted at ctf.threatsims.com. It was meant to be a beginner-to-intermediate-level CTF with the goal of learning and having fun. In between waiting for a large PCAP file to be rescanned with different filters for Niflheim’s Network CTF, I answered a...

  • SECARMY VILLAGE OSCP Challenge @ Grayhat 2020

    For Grayhat 2020, SECARMY VILLAGE put up a Vulnhub Box and opened a CTFd at secarmyvillage.ml to submit flags. There were 10 flags to find on the box, and those that solved all of them would be eligible to win one of three PwK vouchers. I got all the flags...

  • Niflheim Network CTF @ Grayhat 2020

    Niflheim’s Network was a free threat hunting CTF provided to those attending Grayhat 2020, hosted at niflheimsnetwork.duckdns.org. I took 1st place with 47 challenges solved and 3506 points scored. The event went smoothly, the challenges were interesting, the data wrangling was good practice, and I learned a lot in general....

  • Workflow, or How I Make this Blog

    Purpose I received an email from someone that wanted to know how I constructed my website and what my workflow looks like. And, in drafting my response, I realized I may as well make it public in case others are interested. Creation I use Jekyll, a static site generator with...

  • ./missing-semester - Data Wrangling - Exercises

    Course located at: missing.csail.mit.edu Exercises Take this short interactive regex tutorial. Find the number of words (in /usr/share/dict/words) that contain at least three a’s and don’t have a 's ending. What are the three most common last two letters of those words? sed’s y command, or the tr program, may...

  • ./missing-semester - Editors (Vim) - Exercises

    Course located at: missing.csail.mit.edu Exercises Complete vimtutor. Note: it looks best in a 80x24 (80 columns by 24 lines) terminal window. Download our basic vimrc and save it to ~/.vimrc. Read through the well-commented file (using Vim!), and observe how Vim looks and behaves slightly differently with the new config....

  • Cyber Hacktics' Hacktober CTF 2020

    The Hacktober CTF was held Oct 16, 2020 @ 9am CDT to Oct 17, 2020 @ 9pm CDT. Over 1000 teams competed. Results We solved 58 of the 65 challenges, scored 4730 points, and landed in 44th place. Selected Solutions Talking to the Dead I-IV We’ve obtained access to a...

  • TryHackMe - GamingServer

    Enumeration root@kali:~/Security/TryHackMe/GamingServer# portscan 10.10.229.6 Open ports: 22,80 Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-10-18 16:36 EDT Nmap scan report for 10.10.229.6 Host is up (0.14s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0) | ssh-hostkey: | 2048 34:0e:fe:06:12:67:3e:a4:eb:ab:7a:c4:81:6d:fe:a9 (RSA) | 256...