Have you ever cleaned a heavy piece of machinery with a hand-held vacuum? What is a Canadian summer without another HVAC issue! Let's dive into a new error that popped up recently leaving me two weeks without cooling, and what I learned from it!

Walkthrough of NSEC 2023's two N64 ROM challenges. This post will cover the ROM analysis, including loading into Ghidra, extracting debug symbols from a separately provided file, and then stepping through the logic loop to determine the right input. Ultimately the challenge was solved using a memory buffer overflow arbitrarily calling the printflag() function.

Overview and walkthrough of the Xadanu QHACK 2023 Fall of Sqynet Track. Five challenges increasing in difficulty with a focus Ising Hamiltonians and QML to train a series of circuits on unknown grading input to within a tolerance.

Overview and walkthrough of the IBM Qiskit Fall 2022 Quantum Challenge which had a focus on Qiskit runtime and the primitives sampler and estimator. This post will cover how the challenges were solved and lessons learned.

A personal recap on 2022 events, announcements, hobbies, and look at what the new year will bring across the quantum ecosystem, cybersecurity events, and more miscellaneous personal growth.

Overview and walkthrough of the IBM Qiskit Spring 2022 Quantum Challenge with a focus on how the challenges were solved and lessons learned.