 Alright, what's up YouTube? How's it going? It has been a hot minute since I posted a video So I wanted to get back into the swing of things in this set of videos I want to showcase some of the challenges from the B sides Connecticut CTF or capture flag competition. I was there just this past weekend It was awesome. I actually gave a talk. It was just a blast and the game is still actually online I don't know if you'll be able to reach it by the time you watch this But it is CTF dot B side CT org so I competed with a good friend of mine Caleb His name is illicit tiger in the discord server. I don't think he's that active all that often But we played on the team named it butter overflow The team name was my idea, so I totally want to take credit for that and that was that was awesome We came in first place and it was just a really cool thing actually won a small little HP stream laptop from it And it comes with Cali installed So hopefully it'll just be a nice tinker toy for hack the box or vulnerable some some dedicated stuff So I don't have to use my own laptop. It was really cool The the competition had this nice little setup for the challenges just based off the set of Connecticut shape I didn't use this I went for the classic theme because it's just a regular CTF D game So I want to showcase a couple of these hopefully I can talk about the conference more in another video There's some other interesting stuff with that But in this video I just want to run through the trivia challenges and I'll do everything else that I can in later videos So trivia first challenges number actually before I dive in Sorry, I just want to cover because the point value on some of these is very interesting in the rules page You can read a little bit about the CTF. It's simple. Don't be a jerk kind of fun kind of cool, etc and The scoring rules is that this is using dynamic scoring It'll automatically just a challenge values based off the number of teams that have solved it So each challenge will start at 500 points and it will go down as people solve it But the scores for the people that solve the challenges will obviously or not obviously because sometimes this doesn't happen But it's better when it does They will change as well with the value of the challenge itself. So whatever. Let's dive in That's why some of the challenges have very very low point because a lot of people solve them Some of them don't because not many people solve them etc But you'll be able to see that when we actually take a look at the challenge You can see the number of solves and who solved it and when so there we are cool So challenge number one is Connecticut's first besides conference was in 2011 Can you believe that how many besides kinetic events have there been including this one? So this video is not going to be that technical right because it's just going to be covering the trivia challenges This is an interesting one. It's a simple dialogue But I actually just kind of I had a conversation with one of the organizers there ill will or ex ill will I think on Twitter Cool guy awesome guy Thank you for one thing for squeezing me in for the conference and all if you happen to listen, whatever So I had a conversation with him before the competition got started before the conference really got going like well I got my bad and was registering everything was just saying hello He said that they've been doing this right since 2011, but they were doing it every other year So that would have meant 2011 one 2013 one 2015 another 2017 following that and then 2018 this year was one they've just started to go Okay now each year so that is from what I believe a total of five and I believe that's what I answered Maybe I'm wrong right now. It doesn't it just says you've already solved this, but the thing turned green. So Maybe that was already what was that the correct answer? It's just gonna get just gonna turn green whatever I put so I believe it was five I didn't save the answer, but I just tried a few numbers and got it Some of these challenges are interesting because I was able to just literally try numbers and guess the flag in a horrible way But we'll come to those challenges when we come to them next challenge was what's my pen name? This didn't come out until about later in the afternoon Same thing with I've seen this before this trivia challenge was released later in the game I think who is this guy was the only other one that came out just at the very start of the game We solve it just a minute in so this said this one of who is this guy is a picture is your dot jpeg Which we can download looks like I've already got it downloaded Fired up and it's a picture of this dude. I don't know who he is. So let's go ahead and try and Google it I use Google images like Google reverse images Because if it's a thing that exists, maybe we can just track it down Google images images.google and we can drag and search for something specific with that. So let's go ahead and just open a File manager and drag that picture in Okay, and if my internet connection is not the best here But it kind of googled specifically for the animal looks like it found a newt in there or whatever It looked like it was able to find that picture here and let's a linked in thing I tried that name Daniel Smith, etc. And then I went ahead and clicked on it But I just got the Google image results itself It looked like just this description here was Josh Leffers. I don't know if that's anyone Special or important, I don't know but I went ahead and submitted that and that was the answer It was Josh Leffers. So just some cool recon trying everything that you could find Just I don't know throwing stuff at the wall seeing what was sticking. So okay. Next one was what's my pen name? It says Eric Corley is the only description in the lead that we have so I simply googled that right I'd Google Eric Corley pen name and That came up very quickly Frequently known to it was the pen name of Emanuel Goldstein. So Was able to copy paste that in and get the W Next one is I've seen this before and this is a simple string that looks like nonsense But you might be able to recognize. Okay, these are words spelled backwards So I've I think I had it open and idle when I was testing with it earlier We can go ahead and just paste it in and go ahead and reverse it. So it says spandex. It's a privilege not a right I hadn't seen that before but again simple Google stuff recon OSINT It looks like After some scrolling down through that it was from the movie hackers at least that was the assumption So I honestly just tried that there wasn't a whole lot of guidance in this this challenge I just entered hackers and that was the correct flag. So okay very cool That's just the trivia challenge category. 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