Security
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Defeating Tr0ll – Infosec Challenge Walkthrough
This is my walkthrough for defeating Tr0ll infosec challenge. This is another great “boot2root” VM that kept my guessing quite a few times. It also made me focus more on fully utilizing some of the scripts and programs I generally use during a penetration test. I also really liked the fact that Wireshark played a
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Kioptrix Level 1 Hacking Challenge Walkthrough
This is a walkthrough for Kioptrix Level 1. Although getting root on this box is pretty straightforward it’s a great place for those looking to get their feet wet when it comes to boot2root VM’s. I actually suggest this as a starting place rather than something like Metasploitable2, which is almost overwhelming with it’s list
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Double Kill – Hacker’s Dome CTF Walk Through Part 1
This past weekend our Quantum Security CTF Team (consisting of Kamil @vavkamil and myself @jamesbower ) competed on the Hacker’s Dome – Double Kill CTF. The competition consisted of two vulnerable machines with each containing both a user flag and a super user (root) flag. We were able to capture both flags on the first
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Stopping FTP Brute Force Attacks in FreeBSD and OpenBSD
This is a great little article that I came across talking about stopping FTP brute force attacks in OpenBSD or FreeBSD (both of my favorite OS’s). It assumes that your using PF as your firewall (which you should!). You can easily stop bruteforce attacks by limiting connections per IP using pf firewall under FreeBSD or
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