You wake up on a hard floor, you're cold and you feel disorientated. The sound of airco units feels familiar. You open your eyes and you see that you are in the new computer floor of the data-center of the company that you work for.
You are wondering: "How did I get here?". Slowly your brain starts working again. Recently there have been some threats by criminals who want $10 000 000 ransom. Your company will never pay and asked you to investigate the threats. Apparently the bad guys have gotten to you first.
You walk to the door and push the button. No response. Then you see a little note by the button:
You are being held hostage. We put the airco unit on maximum cooling which gives you an hour before you pass out. When your company does not pay us, you will eventually die with no trace to us.
The door can only be opened by us from a remote website, so don't bother trying to escape.
You remember that Alice, one of the networking engineers, has sent you a pcap file with suspicious traffic. As security officer you have made sure all network traffic was recorded.
You know there is a laptop in one of the racks. You walk over to the closet and luckily it is still there. You start up the laptop and download the relevant packet capture from the packet recorder to see if you can find a way out...
Will you be able to find the code to unlock the door before you pass out and die of hypothermia?