Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag • Hacker News Board

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by why-el » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:33 PM UTC

I can't connect to it.

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by sidolin » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:34 PM UTC

starnix17 wrote: post #54

Anyone having trouble connecting to this?

Doesn't work for me as well. I managed to login an do one ls, but since then it's dead.

Can someone share the source and program of the first level so we can have a look?

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:34 PM UTC

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Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by dthunt » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:34 PM UTC

jnorthrop wrote: post #58

starnix17 wrote: post #54

Anyone having trouble connecting to this?

I am. I think their server must be overloaded. I bookmarked the blog post announcing this and I'm going to try again tomorrow.

people were having fun with forkbombs a bit ago.

Presumably we're on the synflood stage now.

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by gravitronic » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:34 PM UTC

Is this based on the classic digital evolution wargames? :D

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by heywire » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:34 PM UTC

starnix17 wrote: post #54

Anyone having trouble connecting to this?

Yeah, my connection froze, and now I cannot connect, ssh or http...

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by toblender » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:34 PM UTC

I think we ended up dDosing the machine...

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by gdb » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:35 PM UTC

jnorthrop wrote: post #58

starnix17 wrote: post #54

Anyone having trouble connecting to this?

I am. I think their server must be overloaded. I bookmarked the blog post announcing this and I'm going to try again tomorrow.

Yeah, we're rebooting. Should be up in a few more minutes. Sorry about that.

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by heywire » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:36 PM UTC

gdb wrote: post #49

sdfjkl wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just hope this machine is isolated from Stripe's network, in case someone makes it to secret level 99.

Yep, it's completely isolated. Someone rooting the machine is very much within our threat model :).

Must be fun watching all of the attempts... Do you have any way to monitor progress?

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by dthunt » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 11:37 PM UTC

mjijackson wrote: post #53

Read this if you're stuck on level 3: http://destroy.net/machines/security/P49-14-Aleph-One

I read this back in college, ages ago. Still relevant - not quite up there with K&R as far as technical writing goes, but it does indeed do the job of making a theoretical problem into an understandable & exploitable one, and for that reason "Smashing the Stack For Fun And Profit" is a phrase that has a special place in my heart.