WebStrike Blue Team Challenge

Solving the WebStrike Blue Team Challenge

A blue-team walkthrough of the CyberDefenders WebStrike challenge: analyzing the PCAP to find the attack’s geographic origin and user agent, the uploaded web shell and its port, the upload directory, and the file targeted for exfiltration.

December 17, 2023 · 4 min
Crimediggers

Crimediggers: solving the cyber challenge

A walkthrough of Crimediggers, the Dutch police digital-forensics challenge, working through CCTV, license-plate, GPS, and Bitcoin-wallet objectives with tools like CyberChef and EnCase/EWF disk images (no answer spoilers).

April 16, 2023 · 17 min
Getting things done with to-do lists

Getting things done with to-do lists

A practical experiment in using a to-do list to run work and home life: why offloading tasks from your brain works, how I categorize them, the pitfalls to avoid, and which app to pick.

July 18, 2022 · 6 min