I figured it's been a few weeks since I put my thoughts to keyboard regarding various backup solutions and since I've decided on a one and it's been in use for a week or two now it's time to write up what I went with. The short answer is Restic,…
Just my thoughts on the various backup packages - updated as I evaluate them more. Spideroak One Super simplistic interface. No way to start/stop backups, only able to run them on schedule couldn't tell if there was archival of versions proprietary storage server linux install is just untar a…
For about 2 years now I've been using CrashPlan Family Unlimited (no link because I'm mad at them) to handle backing up my data. I liked the solution well enough - it had Peer2Peer backups which meant I could install it on some less-tech-savvy friends' & families' computers and they…
Overview Problem: Are you a chicken? <host>:<port> https://2017.notmalware.ru/90ac48d8e27c81628dd56a6e3926a18cd6a399c3/insanity.tar.bz2 Unlike my last write up - I did a lot of the work in solving this challenge so this write up will be a bit more detailed. In this challenge…
Overview This problem is a rehash of the reeses problem from DEF CON 21 CTF Finals. In this case the problem is compiled for x64 instead of ARM. We were provided with a binary and 4 sample files. Let me start by saying that I only had a small part…
This is my writeup for the Honeynet Project - Forensics challenge 14 - Weird Python there were multiple SSL and HTTP connections. I initially opened the pcapng in Wireshark and saw that there were multiple SSL and HTTP connections. Rather than combing through wireshark looking at each one I went…
There's a few new computers in my circle of family - my parents just bought one and my wife's laptop and phone - and I need a better solution for backing up everything. My previous solution CFTBackup was no longer working for windows computers as they were reinstalled or replaced.…
The name of the file should have given us a hint as to the nature of the problem.. but it took me a while as I just started working on it and didn't pay attention to the name (nor see the problem description text).. and of course my modus operandi…