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Jan 25, 2020

Moved from Medium

Just a quick update. I moved writing my articles to my personal page on https://blog.ikuamike.io/ . This page will still be here for my own reference.

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Jul 25, 2019

Hacking DC: 2— Vulnhub

Since this a continuing series I’ll just dive in. Service Enumeration First lets run a fast scan on all ports to discover which ports are open. nmap -sS -p- --min-rate=1000 192.168.56.105

Hacking

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Hacking DC: 2— Vulnhub
Hacking DC: 2— Vulnhub
Hacking

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Jul 16, 2019

Hacking DC: 1 - Vulnhub

It’s been a while since I wrote, creating this series of me hacking through the DC VMs from Vulnhub should be the perfect opportunity. I’ll skip the discovering IP part, if you’ve read previous articles it should be pretty straightforward. Service Enumeration Running a fast scan on all ports to discover which…

Hacking

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Hacking DC: 1 - Vulnhub
Hacking DC: 1 - Vulnhub
Hacking

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May 1, 2019

Nairobi Tech Week Main CTF 2019 WriteUp

If you haven’t read my teaser write-up click here. The main CTF was held during the three days of the event. Even though we didn’t win this one, I learnt something. Since it was the first CTF the organizers did, it very well done. You can checkout the challenges: https://ctf-2019.nairobitechweek.com …

Ctf

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Nairobi Tech Week Main CTF 2019 WriteUp
Nairobi Tech Week Main CTF 2019 WriteUp
Ctf

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Apr 21, 2019

Nairobi Tech Week CTF Teaser 2019 WriteUp

Nairobi Tech Week 2019 is coming up and they held a CTF teaser before the event that ran this last week. There were 5 categories of challenges. Our team participated and was able to solve all challenges except one. We got first place. Onto the challenges I solved. Web

Ctf Writeup

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Nairobi Tech Week CTF Teaser 2019 WriteUp
Nairobi Tech Week CTF Teaser 2019 WriteUp
Ctf Writeup

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Apr 13, 2019

ByteBanditsCTF 2019 WriteUp

CTF page: https://ctftime.org/event/792 Team: NoPwnNoGain Bash-fu

Ctf Writeup

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ByteBanditsCTF 2019 WriteUp
ByteBanditsCTF 2019 WriteUp
Ctf Writeup

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Mar 23, 2019

Frolic — HTB WriteUp

This box was really CTF-like when getting user, it was so unrealistic. You’ll see what I mean. Unfortunately I didn’t get root, not because it was difficult but because I didn’t try. Getting User As usual I begin with an nmap scan to get open ports: nmap -sV -sC -v -oN frolic.txt…

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Frolic — HTB WriteUp
Frolic — HTB WriteUp

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Mar 5, 2019

BSidesSF 2019 CTF Writeup

CTF page: https://ctftime.org/event/753 Team: NoPwnNoGain Zippy Description Can you read the flag from the PCAP? We are provided with zippy.pcapng file. Opening the file in wireshark and checking the stream, I see a zip file is being sent and the password of the zip as well.

Ctf

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BSidesSF 2019 CTF Writeup
BSidesSF 2019 CTF Writeup
Ctf

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Mar 4, 2019

TAMU CTF 19 Writeup (Part 2)

Misc 1. Who am I? Description: What is the A record for tamuctf.com? (Not in standard gigem{flag} format) Difficulty: easy First what is an A record? An A record maps a domain name to the IP address (Version 4) of the computer hosting the domain. An A record is used to find the IP address…

Ctf

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TAMU CTF 19 Writeup (Part 2)
TAMU CTF 19 Writeup (Part 2)
Ctf

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Mar 4, 2019

TAMU CTF 19 Writeup (Part 1)

Another great CTF that my team and I participated in last week, TAMU CTF had a wide range of challenges which made it a nice experience. It ran for a whole week. It is organized by Texas A&M University Students! Now for the challenges I solved! Network/Pentest 1. Stop and Listen As the challenge says…

Ctf

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TAMU CTF 19 Writeup
TAMU CTF 19 Writeup
Ctf

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