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Our next task takes us away from Frosty’s Beach to Rudolph’s Rest. Noel Boetie has the task for us. He’s used ChatNPT to help him with writing his Penetration Testing Report but it looks like it’s made some errors. It’s our job to assist him in finding and marking these hallucinations. The proper way to…
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Continuing West from the Snowball Fight task we will come across Santa’s surf Shack. Inside we can find Ginger Breddie and the Linux 101 task. Talking to Ginger he doesn’t have any hints to provide us but asks if we would care to join him in a Linux session. Opening the terminal we are greeted…
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Before we get started on the task we should take some time to talk to Santa as well as collect our lei from the Goose of Christmas Island. Snowball Hero can be found to the west of Santa and we can start it by talking with Morcel Nougat. Morcel brings up that there may be…
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Holiday Hack 2023 starts us out on a boat as seen above. Looks like this year Santa has decided to leave behind the cold winters of the North Pole and instead finds himself in the sunny, warm Goose Islands. Orientation begins with our first elf, Jingle Ringford. Talking to him he introduces us to the…
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EDIT 1/8/23 – I’ve published all of the writeups I currently have completed. I do still plan to solve the remaining challenges and write up the solutions for the ones I’ve solved but not documented. Sadly life just gets in the way sometimes. Over the past few days I have been completing challenges as part…
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Recently while going down the YouTube rabbit hole I found myself watching a video by clabretro. In this video, he creates his own home TV stations using some Raspberry Pis and RF modulators. Over the years I have collected a fairly large amount of media on my media server however, I didn’t just want the…
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Hello, world! From what I can gather that’s the way these first posts are supposed to start. I’m Kassiopia, Cloud System Administrator by day and hobbyist by night. For the past four or so years I’ve been building out my home network and homelab and wanted a place to document the projects I work on…
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Note: This post was originally written and posted on Medium. It has been copied here for posterity. The Challenge The challenge for this week asked, “Which exit did the device user pass by that could have been taken for Cargo?”. There was also a hint provided in the announcement video to look at a webinar done by…
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Note: This post was originally written and posted on Medium. It has been copied here for posterity. The Challenge Welcome back to the newest installment of my writeups on the Magnet Weekly CTF. This challenge was solved in what is likely a record 4 minutes but still has an interesting solution so let’s get into…
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Background Note: This post was originally written and posted on Medium. It has been copied here for posterity. On September 23rd Magnet announced that they would be holding a weekly CTF challenge based on Android forensics. As an avid competitor in CTFs, this was deeply interesting to me and I knew I needed to compete. Additionally, bonus…