Dev and Security Walkthroughs

Introduction I competed in the Trace Labs Defcon Edition CTF 2021. Our team won 2nd Place and recieved the Silver Badge. I was a judge for the past 6 CTFs and wanted to compete this time. Heather saw a team needed 1 more comrade and notified me of it. The team was competitive so it was a perfect fit because I'm super competitive too. For 30 minutes after the competition ended, we had to painfully see the scoreboard move up and down. It was a nail biter. We tried our best and thats what matters. CTF I stayed on one case most of the event. I kept submitting non-stop until the last hour. It was getting hard to find new info. I jumped around on the three other cases and submitted stuff for those. I discovered this helpful site too: judyrecords.com Next Steps I'm in a competitive mood so I will compete again next CTF. It would be a dream to get the Black Badge so we will see. Silver Badge - Global OSINT Search Party CTF Awarded: Aug 6, 2021 Awarded To: Aman...

Review The monthly Tracelabs Global Missing Persons CTF was on August 8, 2020. Tracelabs partnered with the annual Defcon Hackers conference. We worked on eight missing persons cases. I submitted 36 flags. 28 were approved and 7 were rejected. 36/6 hours = 6 flag submissions per hour. I wanted to submit 50 flags and fell short! I would start my watch and mark on a notecard how much I submitted. Couldn't go fast enough. Some cases were hard to find information on. One person I couldn't find anything. No Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, nothing. It didn't help there were 1000s of them with the same name! The 7 others I found something on. I had two favorite cases. For one of them, I found a secret West Coast LinkedIn from an adult missing on the East Coast. He had his face down, with the same name, same previous job, looked very much the same from the ears and chin. I took an email from LinkedIn and found a property. I submitted the property as a location flag (jack...