Backup Implementation I figured it's been a few weeks since I put my thoughts to keyboard regarding various backup solutions and since I've decided on a one and it's been in use for a week
Backup Search Results Just my thoughts on the various backup packages - updated as I evaluate them more. Spideroak One Super simplistic interface. No way to start/stop backups, only able to run them on schedule
The hunt for a new backup solution For about 2 years now I've been using CrashPlan Family Unlimited (no link because I'm mad at them) to handle backing up my data. I liked the solution well enough - it had
DEF CON 25 CTF Quals - insanity Overview Problem: Are you a chicken? <host>:<port> https://2017.notmalware.ru/90ac48d8e27c81628dd56a6e3926a18cd6a399c3/insanity.tar.bz2 Unlike my last write up - I did a lot of the work
DEF CON 25 CTF Quals - reeses revenge Overview This problem is a rehash of the reeses problem from DEF CON 21 CTF Finals. In this case the problem is compiled for x64 instead of ARM. We were provided with a
Honeynet Project - Forensics challenge 14 - Weird Python This is my writeup for the Honeynet Project - Forensics challenge 14 - Weird Python there were multiple SSL and HTTP connections. I initially opened the pcapng in Wireshark and saw that there
Choosing sync/cloud software There's a few new computers in my circle of family - my parents just bought one and my wife's laptop and phone - and I need a better solution for backing up everything.
BkPctf - Alewife The name of the file should have given us a hint as to the nature of the problem.. but it took me a while as I just started working on it and didn't
BkPctf - Kendall I was going to write how to solve Kendall, a "pwn" challenge, but the author posted a nice write up I probably spent a good hour and a half looking at
BkPctf - Wood Island and Orient Heights This weekend was the Boston Key Party Ctf. There were a bunch of challenge, and my team did pretty well (top 10) even though we didn't have a lot of our regulars. Two
LED Tie Bar - Software The software isn't my best work. I did try to make the effects and color generation abstract, which is why I ended up using a Teensy vs an Trinket Pro or similar. I
LED Tie Bar - Hardware Parts list For each: Generic Metal Tie Bar - http://amzn.com/B00E5YW8L6 Teensy 3.1 - https://www.adafruit.com/products/1625 NeoPixel Stick w/8 Pixels - https://www.adafruit.com/
LED Tie Bar - Overview For my groomsmen gift for my wedding, I decided to do an LED tie bar. I think it turned out pretty well. Hopefully they will all like them (and they don't see this
DEF CON 2014 Finals – wdub v2 Once again I’m gonna talk about the 2nd version of a service from DEF CON 22’s CTF finals. This time it’s wdub; a simple HTTP server. Version 1 had an
DEF CON 2014 Finals - imap v2 This year, like last LegitBS released updated services part way through the competition with the old vulnerabilities fixed and new ones. The first imap service (implements the IMAP protocol) had a bug in
Ironman Lake Placid This post has nothing to do with CTF, Technology or hacking… but I need a place to write this down that isn’t owned by some random company.. so this is it. This
DEF CON 2014 CTF Quals -nonameyet nonameyet was a 3 point problem for DEF CON 2014 CTF Qualification rounds written by HJ; who according to legitbs “is a French-language enthusiast and beard connoisseur. He lives in the Cabin in
DEFCON 2013 CTF Quals – Exploitation 2 http://assets-2013.legitbs.net/liabilities/blackbox.core Running at 131.247.27.201:1234 All we were given for this problem is a core dump. Examining the core file revealed it was for
DEFCON 2013 CTF Quals - Reverse Engineering 1 But I already typed that… ** http://assets-2013.legitbs.net/liabilities/policebox** ** http://assets-2013.legitbs.net/liabilities/core** Opening the core file in gdb reveals that it was “dumped” at the 2nd instruction of
Plaid CTF - giga (Crypto 250) Problem statement: We found a wonderful new service you can use to secure all of your files with, though it is still in beta. The source is available at giga.py. And the
Plaid CTF 2013 - cyrpto (crypto 100) A pretty simple problem: cyrpto 100 crypto One of us devised a new cryptosystem! Can you break it? client.py running at 54.234.245.15:13797. client.py: import random # bleh, figuring
2013 GITS Teaser &- pwnadventure - aka Solvers were so 2012 Find the key. Pwnadventure running at pwnventure.ghostintheshellcode.com:1979. I came into the problem late, my team had already retrieved the binary (ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV)
CWM Hacking the Nook Color - Saga 1 So one of my friends bought a nook color this past week and I had a chance to play with it. I fell in love. Then once I found out ebay was having
CFTBackup Wow.. Has it been a year? So this is why I really don’t blog. I always forget to update. So I was going to try and track the two main projects I was working on.. The backup project
CFTBackup CFTBackup Project - Car Full of Tapes Backup Off site backup is an important thing to have, however in order to effectively do this, one either needs to either send backup media to a separate location, or send the data over