This was the 6th round of CSAW CTF and last time, my team had finished in 56th position internationally and this time, we finished 48th. Here we were given a web page showing Welcome to my website! I wrote it myself from scratch!. Next was to find the vulnerability in the page. Challenge URL: http://web.chal.csaw.io:8000/ Obviously the […]
This CTF comes after the previous MMA CTF which got over on 5th September. One of the things that attracted me was that, it included XSS challenges. I had been previously working on the XSS challenge by Cure53 and also had written the walk-through for beginners. Challenge URL : http://xss1.sect.ctf.rocks I was shown the page below In […]
Challenge URL: https://score.ctf.westerns.tokyo/problems/19?locale=en The name did attract me a lot 😉 and also, the files inside it! When I extracted the 7z file, it showed me and in that, those scripts made me curious out of which one showed say “The flag of part 1 is * * * * * * * * * […]
After completing the previous challenge(Global), I was up with the next challenge, Get the admin password! Challenge URL:http://gap.chal.ctf.westerns.tokyo/login.php The Greeting page looked familiar and well, the page looked like this and my first thought was SQLi. Well, I tried everything I could but then, it resulted in nothing other than throwing Wrong username or password. Then struck me […]
This is my first time playing the MMA CTF and I had heard that last year’s CTF challenges were cool and thought of playing this time. So at first, I saw a web challenge, a 50 point one, which looked interesting and well, I could solve it in 1 hour and I’ll be discussing here […]
This time I’m going off track from the topic that I usually deal with, that is Web Application Security. I’m a big fan of Apple and because of that, I thought of testing out latest version of iOS 10 beta version 1. It was released last month during the WWDC ’16 in San Francisco. iOS […]
Write up of escape.alf.nu part 2
There are many solutions to Erling Ellingsen’s escape.alf.nu XSS challenges. I found this challenges very useful and I could learn a lot from them. I will be publishing the write-up of first 7 challenges and it’ll be basic explanation mainly for beginners. I suggest not to read the write-up before you attempting it. It can several days […]
Today I’m very happy to tell that the Open Source club, FOSS@Amrita, of my college, has got the highest number of GSoC applicants in ’16 from our college from all these years. Well, indeed this is a great achievement for the club. As a member of the club, we’ve always tried to help each other, […]
I started working on Kubuntu in my laptop(Lenovo Y50-70 having Nvidia GTX 860M) around six months back and then itself I started to encounter “Starting version 219” when I try to log into the same. At that point after waiting for sometime would take me into log in screen and then afterwards it’d be easy […]
Web application security 