CTF
Capture the Flag (CTF) games seem to be all the rage now! I mean, I’m not complaining, I’ve been using these for years now and I’ve been building games for about a year so I’m super excited they are more popular, but popular != great. Read more “Thinking of building a Capture the Flag game?”
CTF
Welcome back everyone! Today we are posting a walkthrough of the ALFRED room on TryHackThis!
https://tryhackme.com/room/alfred
This is a fun room; it’s got real world technology deployed and the paths are exactly what you might find IRL! Attacking commonly deployed enterprise products is something that I really enjoy seeing on a learning platform and CTF as I think this equips people for realistic scenarios both from an offensive and defensive perspective! Right, so let’s hop to it! “Alfred I need a laptop and some tea!” Read more “Try Hack Me part 4: Alfred”
CTF
Welcome back to anther post on my Try Hack Me line of blogs!
I realised I missed one of the first steps on the OSCP learning path which is the room: Vulnversity, so I thought I’d circle back and take this one on.
Let’s start off with a PING (ICMP echo) to see if the box is online!
Ping 10.10.209.152 -c 3 Read more “Try Hack Me Review: Part 3 – Vulniversity”
CTF
In our second post we are going to hit the Kenobi box! I’ve slowed down my note taking as I do this box, one thing I find is that it’s hard to sustain action and note taking over a short period of time. In this post we are going to focus on the commands I used to get the data I needed to progress. Read more “Try Hack Me Review: Part 2 – Kenobi”
Guides
One thing that I found quite hard to deal with when I started using Linux coming from a Windows background was the package manager. I thought I would run through some basics here to give people a kick start on their journey!
In the Linux world the operating systems have repositories that are maintained, think of this like the windows update catalogue (but it includes way more). Here we have all the OS files (packages) and application (packages). Read more “Basic Package Management in Kali Linux”
Guides
You have deployed a system with console only mode, but you decide you want a desktop experience with pretty windows and all!
How did we get here? Well during install you get the option to select your desktop environment. By default on 2020.1 Xfce is selected, but if you highlight Xfce and press space (or in the gui if you untick) you will be left with an install that’s headless! Great for SSH access, not so good if you want to run burp suite etc. Read more “Deploying Headless Kali 2020.1 then changing your mind!”
CTF
Off the back of running the BSIDES Leeds CTF, I’m back in the lab trying to work out my arrangements for work and trying to recover from the con and I stumbled across this on twitter: Read more “Reviewing ‘Try Hack Me’ – Part 1 – A New Hacky Adventure by mRr3b00t”
CTF
2020 has only just started in action and already we have an update to Kali! The new build, 2020.1 brings in another big round of changes which include things like changing the username and password cobo and cool stuff like NOT running as root by default for all those who love a KALI daily driver! 😛
This post is aimed at beginners, if you’re an experienced user you probably have already installed by now, so go secure stuff by sending all the pews. For the rest of you, let’s get the ISO downloaded and get cracking (maybe literally!)
We’ve also made a video to accompany this post (the video is a gui encrypted LVM install): Watch it here!
You can get Kali through HTTP or using torrents from the following link:
https://www.kali.org/downloads/ Read more “Kali 2020.1 Update”
Company News
For BSIDES Leeds 2020 we’ve pulled out the stops and created a new CTF game which features both offensive and defensive challenges. The arena includes a number of servers, so you will need to get your pivot on if you are going to breach the crown jewels!
We’ve teamed up with Sky Betting Group to create a CTF which includes both old and new technologies for BSIDES. It features traditional CTF puzzles alongside a PwnDefend norm, an arena network featuring Windows targets!
The games start in line with BSIDES Leeds, at 0900 on the 24th January 2020 the following url will light up with flags across the virtual globe on the Facebook ctf platform.
https://ctf.bsidesleedsctf.com
The challenges are designed for a range of skill levels and all are welcome, if you can use a web browser and know what the magic F12 button does you are in with a chance of getting a flag or two!
I’ll also be presenting with my good friend Mathew Haines on the rookie track at 1400 where we are going to talk about CTF’s and how people can get started (they aren’t just for those who prefer a hoodie!)
I want to give a big thanks to everyone who has helped! From the team at BSIDES Leeds (and the man Large Cardinal himself) through to Sky Betting Group’s Glenn Pegden for hosting the games platform and making some awesome games through to community members, Ben Bidmead (pry0c) from Navisec and Daniel Ward (
@ghostinthecable) who made a community vm challenge!
I create PwnDefend games and content to benefit the community and to help people and organisation better defend themselves so it’s great not only to have community support but also to be able to give back, it’s even better to be able to team up with the team from SBG to bring this to the community!
See you on the cyber battlefields!
for more info on the CTF please visit:
Defense
In large organisations these are really common, but I’ve found that in alot of medium and small organisations standard documents are sometimes missing artifacs. These help guide and steer procurement and operations. They assist an organisation in efficiency and ensure hardware can meet security requirements.
This document is a quick fire template I put together as an example starting point.
https://www.pwndefend.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PC-Device-Standards.docx