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Continuing all the way to the right brings us to the third and final prologue challenge with Poinsettia McMittens. Poinsettia asks us for help beating the Elf Minder 9000 game. The faster you do so the more points you get. Once again, I will cover the gold and silver medals. Silver Medal Similar to the…
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Jumping straight into the challenge we will find ourselves once again in the Goose Islands. A quick Conversation with Jingle Ringleford will explain that the Elves are packing up and moving back to the North Pole. Jingle will also explain some of the new changes to the event this year before prompting us to complete…
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As with last year all of my solutions can be found on this post. Due to the changes implemented this year, solutions for each act will be posted as their embargos are lifted. Additionally, the list below will denote if the challenge was completed at silver or gold difficulty. Prologue Act I Act II Act…
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It is once again that time of year. SANS Holiday Hack opens today (11/07/24) at Noon EST. As previous posts on this blog outline, I am a massive fan of this competition and will once again be trying my hand at it. This year the team has made several changes designed to improve the competition…
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Introduction This all began with me falling down the rabbit hole on CyberDecks back in 2019. I found myself fascinated by the artistic expression and the practicality of the designs I saw. I began researching other UMPCs and retro form-factors to work out of. This searching was where I first came across the TRS-80 Model…
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Our next task takes us to the Gumshoe Alley PI Office on Film Noir Island. Here we can talk to Tangle Coalbox. Talking to Tangle we find out that there’s been a network infection case on the island. Someone clicked a phishing link and Tangle needs our help to crack the case. We can navigate…
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Our next challenge takes us to Steampunk Island’s Brass Bouy Port. Here Bow Ninecandle seems to have gotten himself locked out of the bathroom. If we talk to him we can unlock a hint to a YouTube Video. This video walks us through the process for picking the lock. For my lock the sticky number…
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Traveling to the Ostrich Saloon in the Scaredy Kite Heights section of the Island of Misfit Toys we can find Rose Mold and the Linux PrivEsc challenge Talking to Rose we can see they are a Troll from Holiday Hack 2021. They challenge us to complete the PrivEsc challenge and say they’ll tell us why…
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Next up we have a challenge we don’t normally see in online CTFs like this, a lock picking challenge. This task can be found on the Island of Misfit Toys: Squarewheel Yard. Going south from the boat we’ll encounter Garland Candlesticks and his Luggage Lock Decode challenge. Talking to Garland he’ll ask for help getting…
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Continuing to the west we can Find Sparkle Redberry and the Azure 101 challenge. Talking to Sparkle he will tell us about how Alabaster Snowball has decided to host most of the new IT stuff in Azure. He’ll provide us with a reference for the Azure CLI and ask some help with completing the Terminal…