Summary This was a really cool CTF! It was put on by HouSecCon (Hou.Sec.Con) and Idaho National labs. A few things I really liked about it: Final scores! Huge congrats to CoB for a late night rally and taking the win! Challenges There were upwards of 100 challenges in the…
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LayerOne 2024 CTF
The Conference The LayerOne conference has been a highlight for me each year since I started hacking and doing security things. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in security, electronics, radio, computers, or anything to do with hacking. It tends to emphasize getting hands on and learning through experience…
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Every year I tend to read a good amount of books and listen to some audiobooks. I’ve always wanted to retain better memory of content I consume (including movies or shows) and these blog posts have been a great way to reinforce what I’ve gone through. These posts offer brief…
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Every year I tend to read a good amount of books and listen to some audiobooks. I’ve always wanted to retain better memory of content I consume (including movies or shows) and these blog posts have been a great way to reinforce what I’ve gone through. These posts offer brief…
Leave a CommentBook and other reviews – 2022
Every year I tend to read a good amount of books and listen to audiobooks. I’ve always wanted to retain better memory of content I consume (including movies or shows) and these blog posts have been a great way to reinforce what I’ve read or seen. To add some variety…
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Last year a few good friends and people from our discord server started up a ‘Paper Group’ where each week a new research paper is selected for us to read and discuss. We all found it to be an enjoyable experience & are continuing it indefinitely. This page will covers…
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Recap of the 2021 LayerOne CTF event with some solutions and notes
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A few friends in my discord do a weekly ‘paper’ discussion group (like a book club, but weirder) and I figured it’d be nice to record some comments from the papers & occasionally revisit interesting papers with updates to see if they panned out or not. I put a backlog…
Leave a CommentBook and other reviews – 2021
One of my hobbies is reading and listening to audiobooks as well as playing the occasional game. To add some variety to the site I decided to start listing the books I read each year and provide mini reviews. This is mostly exercise to help me remember more of what…
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Several past roles and my current have placed me in a position where I received obscene amounts of email. Some of those emails are easy to manage – alerts from monitoring systems, subscriptions or expected mail cadences – others are harder to manage – requests from legal to review a…
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