Big Name Bugs
Cyber Tools & Techniques
Cyber Poems
The Deep Lore
Who's that Solver?
100
This famous exploit was used to undermine Iran's nuclear program
StuxNet
100
This famous technique involves using small code snippets next to function return instructions to gain control flow
Return-Orient-Programming
100
The best browser, also know as _
Teams were made today with a __
Tor,Dinosaur
100
This well-known group in Cyber started as an IRAD program
Metals
100
This is your grandboss
Wren Sigrest
200
This unsafe deserialization bug wrecked havoc in Java's popular log4j library
log4shell
200
This program analysis tool was first published in the NDSS paper "The Art of War: Offensive Techniques in Binary Analysis"
angr
200
Unix stores its binaries in a directory _
To win this CTF, you have to be locked __
bin,in
200
Of all the projects Battelle has worked on, this one is the most famous
The Manhattan Project
200
This solver has 11 siblings, 6 brothers and 5 sisters
Mickey Steward
300
This famous iPhone exploit chain was burned against Kaspersky Labs in 2023
Operation Triangulation
300
This imaging technique involves blasting electrons in a beam, and is particularly useful for recovering IC layouts
SEM imaging (Scanning electron microscopy)
300
Time for my favorite disassembler _, but for my least favorite programming language, Google's __
IDA Pro, Go
300
The first national lab that Battelle began to manage in 1965
Pacific Northwest National Lab
300
This Virginia data scientist once deleted all of MFT's leading IP solution, Cyberhive, via a single well timed 'rm -rf /etc'
Anthony Cavallero
400
A hardware flaw in allowing attackers to leak data from the out-of-order machine in Intel chips, better known as
Meltdown
400
This tool is best known as a GUI for decompiling Android APK files
jadx
400
The Linux Kernel mascot, his name is _
One input, two outputs, that's a __
Tux, Mux
400
Fun fact! Battelle has a really deep pool for submarines, it also worked on this famous submarine starting in the late 1940s, the first of its kind
The Nautilus
400
A nightmarish and powerful solver who listened to Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" for 3 hours on repeat
Zac Markle
500
This bug, exposed in the USENIX paper "All cops are broadcasting", allows any attacker to snoop radio traffic of a well-known protocol
TETRAburst
500
A heap grooming trick where an attacker forces multiple executing programs onto a single core
CPU pinning
500
Oh man I love my _, I love its instruction set, __
Wii, PowerPC
500
Battelle Cyber has TWO solvers on their website by name, they are
Katie L and Adam K
500
Widely regarded as the most handsome solver
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