My unfortunate annual infosec holiday season tradition…
- Receive email reminder of upcoming Holiday Hack event from SANS
- Get super excited and tell myself I am totally going to play this year
- Even plan to blog about it / do a full write-up
- Day comes where it is finally released!
- Tell a bunch of people that it is out and they should do it too
- Not have any time to actually do it / forget about it for one reason or another
- Not actually participate even a little bit
- Enjoy the holidays
- January rolls around and the write-ups start coming out
- Regret I never participated
- Tell myself I will go back and do it one day (SANS keeps all previous Holiday Hacks available online for free ~ awesome!)
This isn’t mean to demean Holiday Hack. It’s an awesome CTF with cool gameplay, music and more. I highly recommend anyone in infosec (or outside of infosec) play if they can. For those of you who have time or make time to do it this year or any other year I applaud you and aspire to do it more myself.
Happy Hacking!
https://www.sans.org/mlp/holiday-hack-challenge-2023/
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