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Notes from my first OSDev Bare Bones milestone: building a freestanding x86 kernel, packaging it with GRUB, debugging cross-compiler and ISO issues, and running QEMU over SSH with VNC.

What I learned about role-based access control while building a Dockerized Go and PostgreSQL backend with JWT authentication, explicit roles, explicit permissions, permission-guarded routes, and audit logging.

A walkthrough of the Hack The Box WordPress skills assessment against the INLANEFREIGHT target, documenting enumeration, hosts-file DNS mapping, WordPress attack surface analysis, exploitation, shell access, and flag retrieval.

ROP Overflows

Shellcode Overflows

Call Function Overflows

Variable Overflows

Reversing Basics

Relearning knowledge previously forgotten

An in-depth look into Carmichael Numbers

The beginnings to my career at UGA

picoCTF Writeup

The Beginnings to my Project

picoCTF Writeup

picoCTF Writeup

HackTheBox Writeup

HackTheBox Writeup

Celebrating the new launch of my website

ICTF Writeup

ICTF Writeup

TetCTF Writeup

ICTF Writeup

Introducing Zyphen