Our first time doing Vancouver BSides which was an event said to be aimed at beginners and students. I was expecting a fun and medium challenge but I found it to be trickier than expected and where I knew the general direction of the solutions for a number of problems I didn’t get enough time to focus on them during the middle of the week where it was held.

For this years CodeGate teams faced some ingenious challenges. Today I will write up the first challenge we solved which seems to have also been first for many of the teams. This challenge is Systemshock.

This challenge in the forensics genre had only the following as the clue: