h1-ctf: Invading Grinch Network and Saving Christmas

How we saved Christmas As usual with H1 CTF challenges we are provided with a target URL. In our case it is the following: https://hackyholidays.h1ctf.com/ We started by visiting the URL and see what is going on. All we could see is a page with an image with a warning message. F1125722 We quickly...

h1-ctf: Solution for hackyholiday

Summary: Since there is a reward for the first 10 submissions, I'll start by providing the flags: flag48104912-28b0-494a-9995-a203d1e261e7 flagb7ebcb75-9100-4f91-8454-cfb9574459f7 flagb705fb11-fb55-442f-847f-0931be82ed9a flag972e7072-b1b6-4bf7-b825-a912d3fd38d6...

h1-ctf: ctf walkthrough

Hi, finally managed to solve all challenges, this was my first h1ctf, some challenges were pretty nice, some others had some frustrating guessing parts, but overall it was fun. Here goes day1 to day12 walkthroughs: Day 1 we have only one asset in scope hackyholidays.h1ctf.com the main page at...

My-CTF-Web-Challenges

This is a collection of CTF Capture The Flag web challenges created by orange. The repository contains source code, write-ups, and idea explanations for various challenges. The challenges are categorized by year, with challenges from HITCON 2018, 2019, and 2020, as well as other CTF events. The...

The story of the year: remote work

The coronavirus pandemic has caused sudden, sweeping change around the world. The necessary social distancing measures are having an impact on all of us. One large part of society that has been affected by these measures more than others is the employed. While direct customer facing businesses li...

The Remote-Work Transition Shifts Demand for Cyber Skills

The mass migration to remote working has forced chief information security officers to rethink what “secure” means and to re-prioritize the skillsets needed within their information-security teams. This creates challenges for companies — but also creates wide-open opportunities for those willing ...

Congrats to the winners of the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF

Thank you all that participated in the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF! The four day CTF was well received by the community, with 874 teams and 1903 users registered! We’ve included the high-level stats and the competition winners below. If you played the CTF and want to let the Metasploit...

Insider Report: Healthcare Security Woes Balloon in COVID-Era

In 2020, the healthcare industry began a massive shift, as legacy cybersecurity issues merged with new security challenges spurred on by the spread of COVID-19. Even before the pandemic, the medical arena wrestled with major cybersecurity challenges, including insecure medical devices, protecting...

Lock and Code S1Ep21: Lesson planning your school’s cybersecurity with Doug Levin

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Doug Levin, founder of the K12 cybersecurity resource center and advisor to the K12 Security Information Exchange, about how schools can plan for a...

Demonstrate Commitment, Differentiate Services, Develop Opportunities

Everything's mobile -- especially today, when running a business is harder than ever -- and responsiveness is everything. Staying ahead of the curve means workers may need to operate in "always available" mode, relying on their phone for business-related tasks, regardless of where they may be. Th...

Virtual Hackathon Generates Next Generation of Imperva Innovation

“How do we run a global hackathon amid a global pandemic?” That was my first thought when I began planning the 2020 Imperva Hackathon earlier this year. While the event is designed to foster innovation and uncover new ideas, in a global company like ours it’s also about making new friends and...

The GOP Keeps Proving There's No Election Fraud

Through numerous legal and other challenges, the Trump campaign and its allies have consistently undermined their argument...

Securing Cloud and Container Workloads: A View From the Trenches

Almost 15 years after Amazon launched AWS, public cloud platforms have become extraordinarily sophisticated and feature-rich, as well as wildly popular, creating a world of security and compliance challenges that gets more complex by the day, said Badri Raghunathan​, Qualys product management...

From Triton to Stuxnet: Preparing for OT Incident Response

From an irked former contractor in Australia sabotaging a sewage plant in 2000, to the more high-level 2017 Triton malware attacks on Saudi Arabian petrochemical plants, operational technology OT for critical infrastructure has increasingly been a cybersecurity concern. But now, the COVID-19...

2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 4: Planning for Success with a Cloud SIEM

This is the fourth and final installment of our series around 2021 security planning. Through this series, we talked to a previous CISO about how to tackle annual security planning, looked at driving more efficient threat detections, and also explored the benefits of greater SOC automation. In th...

The Evolution of the Qualys Cloud Platform

The global pandemic has upended everything, and in the cyber security world in particular it has highlighted the need for organizations to have a cloud-based security and compliance platform, Qualys President and Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said during his keynote Monday at the virtual QS...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off QSC USA 2020, the company’s 20th annual user conference, with an assessment of current security challenges, and a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome them. “Today security is front and center, and as we move to the cloud, we mus...

How the Crypto Challenge as Action Helped a Major Airline Reduce False Positives While Protecting the Customer Experience

Challenges of Bot Detection: Keeping Defenses High Without Triggering False Positives Identifying bots is important and complicated work. Keeping up with ever-changing bot technologies and attack strategies requires deep knowledge and continuous threat research. The outbreak of the COVID-19...

The Impossible Dilemma of Twitter’s ‘Hacked Materials’ Rule

The company’s flip-flopping on the policy after banning a shady New York Post story highlights the challenges facing social media in 2020...

Announcing the Zero Trust Deployment Center

Organizations have been digitally transforming at warp speed in response to the way businesses operate and how people work. As a result, digital security teams have been under immense pressure to ensure their environments are resilient and secure. Many have turned to a Zero Trust security model t...