Moving the blog's infrastructure to a Terraform file
Or “How I caused myself an outage lasting two entire days and the solution was to go way back”
Or “How I caused myself an outage lasting two entire days and the solution was to go way back”
flaws.cloud is a series of AWS-based challenges with the aim of teaching about common mistakes and gotchas of the platform.
Another year, another Hackthebox Cyber Apocalypse! This year I was feeling pretty under the weather and so decided to mostly attempt the Forensics challenges.
NixOS is, against all prior expectations, pretty cool and intuitive to use.
On Monday, February 12th I had the opportunity to participate in shioCTF, a small CTF with the occasion of celebrating the host’s birthday (お誕生日おめでとう!). Below is a short writeup for the two Web challenges in it.
Or “How to make putting words in people’s screens more complicated than it ought to be”
Sometimes you just don’t crack it
One of our web servers triggered an AV alert, but none of the sysadmins say they were logged onto it. We’ve taken a network capture before shutting the server down to take a clone of the disk. Can you take a look at the PCAP and see if anything is up?
Being a long-time player of roguelikes, I figured it was about time to dip my toes into the modding community for one of the games I’ve played the most and that (supposedly) boasts good modding capabilities.
And so began my fight against Caves of Qud, XML and even my own file system.