Archive for June, 2008

Lessons Learned From CTF Quals

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Hardware / OSs (For the thrifty hacker): If you have one machine to play with, run virtual machines with a small variety of operating systems and tools on them (see below). This suggestion is per member, and does not represent the one requirement for the whole team. Each member should be set up in such [...]

DefCon 16 CTF Quals DONE!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

It’s shocking, I know, but I didn’t make it into the top seven teams who were chosen to compete in the hacker bloodsport known has Capture The Flag at DefCon 16. (Not that I thought I had a chance in hell) Only the top seven teams are picked – and they are at the very [...]