Scenario: A short PCAP was captured from the guest network of a hotel. Tiny packets were observed going out to a :8080 address at…

Room: Packed Light Category: Forensics / Network Analysis Difficulty: Easy Time taken: ~20 minutes

TryHackMe forensics challenge walkthrough — Wireshark, tshark, and reversing a XOR + base64 exfiltration channel.

A walkthrough of TryHackMe’s “Packed Light” — Easy, 60 points, Forensics category — from the Hacker Holidays event at the Byte Lotus Hotel.

Four rooms into TryHackMe’s Hacker Holidays, and this is the first one that sent me back to my own notes. Room 4 dropped me into digital…

How VPNs, browser fingerprints, metadata, and everyday online habits can reveal more about your identity than you realize.

Introduction

Most baseball fans worry about the obvious things. Will the closer blow another save? Can the ace stay healthy? Is this finally the year…

The scenario

It’s the last day of Hacker Holidays 2026! Though I’m sad to pack up and head home from the Byte Lotus, I sure learned a lot. Here’s to one…