It’s been a long break between the last CTF I wrote up and now. To be honest there has been a bit of a lull in the number and quality of CTFs since earlier in the year. It seems they are starting up again though and that’s great news.

HUST festival was this weekend and we participated although many parts of the festival were Korean language, they made a great effort to put English clues in for all the challenges.

Another one pointer, this time in the RE category. For this one I am going to give an example of solving something “just enough” to get the points so you can move on to the next flag. I’ve read other writeups about this and notice some people reversed very precisely to get a perfectly working exploit. I, on the other hand, was willing to cut corners!

Defcon was finally here and I was so totally pumped for it. When it dropped, so did my jaw, it wasn’t going to be easy. That’s for sure. Defcon had some of the evilest, trickiest challenges I’ve ever faced in a CTF. And it was super fun because of it.