CTF Defeating Tr0ll – Infosec Challenge Walkthrough jbower, September 8, 2014April 21, 2023 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… Continue Reading
CTF Kioptrix Level 1 Hacking Challenge Walkthrough jbower, August 13, 2014April 21, 2023 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… Continue Reading
Operating Systems Stopping FTP Brute Force Attacks in FreeBSD and OpenBSD jbower, August 13, 2009April 21, 2023 Dealing with 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… Continue Reading