SANS Institute & Counter Hack - Holiday Hack Challenge 2022
Information Security - Practical Skills and Awareness
Each year the SANS Institute teams up with penetration testing and security experts at Counter Hack to produce series of holiday-themed offensive and defensive cybersecurlty exercises. This year's challenges include some old-school fun with network traffic interception / analysis, shell escapes and JavaScript, as well as some more contemporary work with CI/CD pipelines, AWS penetration, blockchain manipulation and non-fungible tokens (NFT). Remember those? There were over 16,000 participants this year, providing peer support and exchanging war stories on a set of dedicated Discord channels.
Mike spent this Christmas in Florida with his family (tough gig , but someone has to do it) and so didn't join the competitive element of the challenge this year, but completd the tasks in early January with a little help from already-published solutions in places. He completed his usual lab-book record of the journey which you can read in the HHC 2022 tab at this link. SANS published a list of the competition winners with links to their write-ups here: SANS Holiday Hack Challenge Winners.