Wild West Hackin Fest 2024
Wild West Hackin Fest is Certainly Something Else, in the best ways possible.
Latest
A Collection of Useful Resources for Infosec N00bs
When starting out your IT or Infosec journey, Knowing where to find high quality information may be hard. Here are some good sources for information I recommend if you need help finding stuff.
DEF CON 32
DEF CON 32 was last weekend, and I was in attendance again. Here's a quick recap on how the con went!
Hack the Box Academy Bug Bounty Hunter Path Review
After thoroughly embarrassing myself in an interview, I decided it was time to get somewhat competent at Web Application Pentesting. So, how does Hack the Box's platform stack up?
How to Win CCDC: Dealing With Red Team
Red Team is the Big Spooky Bad Guy who's here to mess up your weekend. How do you deal with them?
How to Win CCDC: Injects
Injects are frequently called out as a weak point of teams' performance in Minnesota CCDC. This serves as a guide on correcting that issue.
How to Win CCDC: Team Dynamics
CCDC Teams have a lot going on. This post covers useful role definitions, and division of work between a team to ensure a smooth competition day.
How to Win CCDC: Competition Overview
Welcome to the first in my "How to Win CCDC" series of blog posts. I want to start with the overview of the competition itself.
How to Win CCDC
CCDC Is the foundation of my career. I like to think that the team I competed with was pretty good, so I want to pass my knowledge to new teams.
PancakesCon 5
I had the opportunity to volunteer for the event, which marks the first time I have worked on a con!
Minnesota CCDC 2024 Post-Mortem
I like causing chaos, and Red Teaming CCDC is the best way to cause chaos.
Antisyphon: Reporting for Pentesters Review
When delivering reports for a living, it's important to know how to do it well. Fortunately, BB King knows how to do it very well.
Meta
Welcome to My New Home!
Home Sweet Home - My new place on the Internet
Thinking
2023 Reflections and Direction Towards 2024
The Year 2020+3 Happened, I guess.
Homelab
Homelab: November 2023 Changes
Preparing my lab for a pivot, and making it more useful into the future.
Homelab
Homelab: October 2023 and Planning Beyond
It ain’t much (for now) but it’s honest work.
Conferences
A N00b’s Reflection of DEF CON 31
I had my first DEF CON this year. I want to go over some of the things I saw, things I learned, and things I will do better next year.
Homelab
Homelab: History
My lab has been around a long time. Come with me down memory lane as I describe what I have done to build it out to where it is now.
Review
A Strange and Obsolete OSCP Review
Caught up in the middle of the transition, I can't actually tell you if the new course content is any good. I can tell about you what I experienced however, and that is exactly what I intend to do.
Thinking
CCDC - The Competition My Career Stands On: Year 2
CCDC is the primary foundation that my career stands on today. Here is the story of some of my favorite times in University.
Thinking
CCDC - The Competition My Career Stands On: Year 1
CCDC is the primary foundation that my career stands on today. Here is the story of some of my favorite times in University.
Review
Zero Point Security’s Red Team Ops II (RTO2) Course and Certified Red Team Lead (CRTL) Exam Review
Ethics Disclaimers First thing’s first, I wish to disclose a few things prior to getting into the review proper. I was unexpectedly given an early preview of the Red Team Operator II course by Zero Point Security after posting my review of their CRTO Certification. I had access to
Programming
Overcoming AES Block Size Challenges Within Encrypted C Strings
I was told that C strings were bad, It wasn't until I worked with it that I realized how bad
Review
Sektor7 Institute’s Malware Development Essentials Review
Bolstered by my compulsive need to understand how things work, I’ve started my deeper dive into understanding how malware works.