Category: Insomni’hack

Insomnihack 2013 – Facebookalypse

This challenge was definitely one of the harder web missions and based on a redefined session handler mechanism that was initially discovered in a relatively well-know Firewall brand. It is also very similar to the example you can find on PHP’s own documentation here : http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php

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Insomni’hack 2013 – Life is hard(ware)

Intro

For this challenge, I wanted the attendees to reverse a microcontroller firmware, but most of all, I wanted them to actually see the result “live” to prove that the code actually works on a real device. The main idea was to use a keypad and a small screen to display the flag once the correct code has been entered.

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