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The Petting Zoo – CTF

DC702 CTF FOR CREECH AFB

The Las Vegas local hacking group, DC702, will be hosting a Capture The Flag (CTF) event at Creech Air Force Base to promote cyber education. Presenters include intelegence professionals who will describe worldly hacks and the orginizations from which they originate. This post describes the thoughtful process that went into creating the various challenes that will be used for the challenges.

Plesae note that our experts use this daily, and this post is intended to give its audience a basic understanding of Docker and how systems can be developed using it.

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GPU Passthrough on XCP-ng

USES UBUNTU 18.06.6 SERVER

This is a running log of an attempt to create a hashcat server on an XCP-ng server using PCI passthrough to an Ubuntu virtual machine.

NOTE: This is the GPU I’m using: https://www.nvidia.com/content/grid/pdf/grid_k1_bd-06633-001_v02.pdf


INSTALL ON XCP-NG AS A NEW SERVER

NOTE: Reference Download: https://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.6/

After downloading the ISO, I simply created a VM with 12 cores and 48 GB RAM

Then, I installed hashcat

sudo apt install hashcat

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Computer Rebuild

Recently, I rebooted my computer and got a warning message that said that my CPU was over-temp’ing. Being that I had it water cooled and overclocked, this was not a good message… so I did some upgrading, and man am I happy with it!

 

My old rig was made up of Rosewill components and I was pretty happy with the way it came together, but it was definitely cramped. I liked how it looked, but there was no intake on the front of the case, and the bottom was not big enough for the new 3-fan radiator that I bought to replace my old 1-fan rad.

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