Last weekend was the BSides Cape Town conference, currently ZA’s only hacker con. It’s a cool little con with big dreams that get a little closer each time. This year was a lot a fun and well put together, congrats to all of the speakers organisers and volunteers.

SP gave some talks; Charl spoke about where we’re headed in a talk entitled Love Triangles in CyberSpace; a tale about trust in 5 chapters. Chris discussed his DLL preloading work and released his toolset. Finally, Darryn & Thomas spoke about exploiting unauth’ed X sessions and released their tool XRDP, it was also their first con talk ever.

The other thing we did was run a CTF challenge off the back of the cool badge & CTF platform AndrewNoHawk and elasticninja built. This is a write up of that challenge.