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Open Security WWHF CTF Writeup

One Coin to Rule them All! Colors Solution: Colors Challenge Looking at the source for this challenge, we can see a few elements that are not displayed within the website itself. We can see various strings of Base64, and colors

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Facebook’s Gut Punch

Facebook’s Gut Punch Looking at the internal impact of a total network failure In case you hadn’t heard, Facebook went down. And of course, when someone says, “Facebook went down,” it covers much more than facebook.com. Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp,

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Penetration Testing – Expectation vs Reality

Figuring out what actually constitutes a penetration test can be a surprisingly tough question to resolve.  Between scanning vendors exaggerated claims and a misunderstanding of what real-world penetration testing can produce, it can take a CISSP to untangle the details.

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Way West HF – Journey to a Coin

2021 Way West Hackin’ Fest was a great conference in that it did have something for all attendees (remote or in-person) including its numerous CTFs, labs, workshops, and high-quality talks. As this was my first time attending the conference, I

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Wargaming GIAC Certifications

Voltaire is a web-based indexing tool for GIAC certification examinations. Creating an index with Voltaire is a simple three phase process involving: documentation/note-taking, sorting & normalization, and word processing. Voltaire Website: https://voltaire.publickey.io As a SANS instructor one of the things

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