ctf
Securing Silver: My 2nd Place Win at CYBERSECURITY CONFERENCE 2025 CTF in Mannheim
My first comprehensive CTF experience at the CYBERSECURITY CONFERENCE 2025 in Mannheim, where my colleague and I secured 2nd place! We dive into the learning, the race, and essential tips on how to truly prepare (and thrive) in a 24-hour CTF challenge.
exam-prep
Uni Exam Practice VM practice: more of LFI2RCE
In this university exam practice VM, I explored file upload handling, discovered a separate file inclusion point, and chained it with an uploaded webshell to gain remote command execution.
exam-prep
Test Exam: Penetration Testing Playbook 01
My personal playbook for my penetration testing test exam, covering all key steps from access via port forwarding to grabbing ALL 8 flags.
ad-challenge
The Final Part: Active Directory Journay Day Five: Building, Securing, and Managing a Domain
Day Five covers key AD admin tasks - user and group creation, GPO management, and domain joins; using PowerShell with a security-focused approach.
privilege-escalation
How to Proceed after the User Flag: My Beginner’s Priv Esc Flow
Getting user.txt is just the beginning. Here’s how I hunt for privilege escalation paths on Linux boxes; what I check, how I think, and why it still stumps me sometimes.
htb
My UnderPass Runthrough - Learnings
Cracked the UnderPass HTB box by skipping dead ends, abusing SNMP leaks, and turning mosh-server into a root shell with zero password; here is how.
