Having touched down in Johannesburg, I am greeted by revision b.04 of the Lockitall LockIT Pro; coupled with an HSM-1 module, the manual states this version of the firmware "rejects passwords which are too long". Somehow I don't have high hopes for their efforts - but that's not …
Having touched down in Johannesburg, I am greeted by revision b.04 of the Lockitall LockIT Pro; coupled with an HSM-1 module, the manual states this version of the firmware "rejects passwords which are too long". Somehow I don't have high hopes for their efforts - but that's not …
I was kinda let down by the difficulty of Whitehorse compared to its predecessor - sure the underlying vulnerability in Reykjavik was also similar to a previous challenge, but the twist forcing the loss of the automatic disassembly made it hit different. But the time for reminiscing is later - the time …
read moreThe exercise informed me I was up against hardware version B, but now running software revision 2. I still had a LockIT Pro HSM-1 to contend with (but more likely bypass entirely), but by this point I was fairly confident in what I expected from the firmware.
My jaunt to New Orleans was easy enough, but as I said at the time things will only get harder and I was in the mood for a challenge when I made my way down under.
Upon opening the exercise I am once again presented with the manual …
Way way back in the before times, I started this online reverse engineering/binary exploitation CTF called Microcorruption, but never finished it and ultimately forgot about it. But no longer - I have decided to return to Microcorruption in the hopes of conquering it and writing up my solutions in …
Occasionally my mind regains the ability to recall something from more than two weeks in the past, the latest item being a blog post I read on the relative power of shell parallelization. Recently I found myself dreading an enormously parallelizable task and decided in lieu of spending 45 seconds …
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