SANS SEC760: Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers – Review

In July 2022, I took the SANS SEC 760 class in Berlin. I always promised myself and some close friends to write a review, but I didn't have the time until the Christmas break. This blog post aims to be a day-by-day review of the SANS SEC760 course content and its CTF, NetWars tournament and on-demand package. SANS SEC760 Looking at SANS's website, SEC 760 should teach skills required to reverse-engineer applications in order to find vulnerabilities, perform fuzzing and write complex exploits...

Naughty List Challenge Write-Up – X-MAS CTF

As the last post of the year, I decided to do something chill and a bit “off-topic” from my usual content. As the festivities are approaching, I have a bit more free time to dedicate to different stuff, like helping some friends with CTFs and such. I’ve decided to post about this specific challenge because since it wasn’t the most complex nor the one with the most shenanigans to flex about, it likely wouldn’t get any write-ups. But it’s a perfect...

VoidSec CTF: Secure the Flag – Writeup

It has been a while since my last blog post, so I’m (finally) writing the write-up of the: VoidSec CTF Secure the flag. The CTF was made possible thanks to the sponsorship with Bitdefender that put some licenses for its product as a prize for the first three winners. This CTF was web based, no binary exploitation nor reverse engineering and/or crypto was involved. Before I dive into deep, let me explain what was the goal of this CTF and why it is...

Secure The Flag

Recentemente abbiamo anticipato su Slack l’arrivo di alcune novità, i più attenti di voi avranno notato l’aggiunta di un importante partner: Bitdefender, nota software house dell’omonimo antivirus. Cogliamo pertanto questa occasione per presentarvi il nostro primo hack contest: VoidSec Secure The Flag Il contest preparato dallo staff di VoidSec si articolerà in una serie di sfide di difficoltà crescente che porteranno i partecipanti alla sfida finale. Qui le recensioni dei nostri betatester che hanno avuto la fortuna di provarlo in anteprima. In palio per i...