There were roughly 30 Street teams that participated in Korelogic’s 2020 Crack Me If You Can password cracking contest at Defcon. I took 4th place.

It was a cold Wednesday morning, about ten ‘til eight. I had been in the office a few minutes when the phone rang. Hello. “Yes, hi, the server has been hacked!

There’s an old quip about solutions causing more problems: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

Zoom is software that facilitates remote meetings and collaboration. Its popularity soared in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has also been the focus of increased privacy and security concerns.

Since I seldom need the functionality provided by oathgen (a complete HOTP/TOTP implementation), I typically use goathgen. Goathgen is a simple TOTP library and command line executable written in Go.