Hello and Happy New Year! This year’s Holiday Hack Challenge theme was an online conference called KringleCon, a cyber security conference hosted by Santa and his elves. It had all the elements of an in-person conference, including talks, badges, swag and the ability to network with other attendees. The challenge was to solve all 10 objectives and each of the “Cranberry Pi” mini-challenges.

The SANS Holiday Hack challenge this year was fantastic and I wanted to make sure to document my solutions on my blog. I have participated in the Holiday Hack Challenges since 2012, but haven’t documented them with the exception of some informal notes – maybe I should change that! Anyway, enjoy my write-up and I encourage anyone who did not participate to give it a try before reading this post!