So I wasn't too fond of this year's iCTF with their ever returning complexity that drives your focus away from the actual exploiting and security fixes. The concept sounded great but as with the previous two years it was just to much work besides...
Note This is the fourth part of the series of how to pull your data out of the cloud. You can find the introduction together with a list of currently published articles here. Well, it has been some time since my last post since I was kind of...
I am using GitLab on my server and today I upgraded to version 5.2 mostly because a system update somehow broke my custom changes regarding certificate verification (it seems it is now included in gitlab-shell). Anyway, I was faced with the issue...
Introduction I recently switched to awesome which will have its own article as the window manager is just awesome. However, I am not done with its configuration and so there is no point in writing an article about it yet. Today I will just go...
Note This is part two of the two part process describing how we broke the pyjail challenge on plaidCTF 2013. The first part described how we broke the sandbox. This part describes how we circumvented the nonalpha stuff. I will now describe how we...
Note This is part one of the two part process describing how we broke the pyjail challenge on plaidCTF 2013. The second part is written by qll and covers the nonalpha stuff. This first part covers how to escape the sandbox. The pyjail challenge...
A lot of the plaidCTF 2013 challenges were binary this year. Since I am more the Python guy, I looked for Python code to exploit. There were only very few of those and most of them weren't even about Python :-( One of those challenges was...
Note This is the third part of the series of how to pull your data out of the cloud. You can find the introduction together with a list of currently published articles here. Mail In this entry, I will go over how to migrate your mail. Mail is a really …
Note This is the second part of the series of how to pull your data out of the cloud. You can find the introduction together with a list of currently published articles here. In this short overview we will detail the storage of contacts. Contacts...
Note This will be an ongoing series to describe the steps I took to pull as much as possible of my stuff out of "the cloud" to regain control of my data. The idea behind this is that with your own server, you can selfhost most of the stuff you …