This is my second challenge write-up related to this past weekend’s PlaidCTF event hosted by Plaid Parliament of Pwning (www.pwning.net) and will cover the forensics challenge “cat_rar”. cat_rar – 150 After playing around with the crypto challenges for far too long, I decided to switch and help out some of the other team members with the […]

Plaid Parliament of Pwning hosted their Plaid CTF 2013 event this past weekend and I participated with a number of other members from the SUNIYIT NCS club. This marks the first time that I’ve tried my skills at the Plaid event, and counts as one of only a few CTF events that I’ve been able […]

Members of the SUNY IT Network and Computer Security Club attended the Security BSides hacker conference in Rochester on April 6th. The BSidesROC event consisted of a number of security and computer related talks and games. One of the games at the conference was the Crypto Challenge, created by Darth Null (@DarthNull). The group was […]