Introduction Quantum Computing has long interested me - I mention the topic glancingly in my about page when I mentioned "where we are headed" in reference to the future of cryptographic systems...

Introduction AI was an interesting machine recently retired by HTB. The initial portions were more frustrating than complicated and reminded me of the daily struggle of dealing with various hom...

Introduction Bitlab was a fun little box that has us work through gitlab based exploitation. From erroneously stored user credentials, to uploading and merging our own files to the project, to ...

Introduction Craft was a well designed moderate box from HTB that exemplified bad coding practice, sensitive data disclosures and token abuse into root. From a technical standpoint this machine...

Introduction Wall was an easy Linux machine from HTB that focused on RCE/WAF bypass to establish an initial foothold then a direct pivot to root using a vulnerable suid binary. Let's follow alo...

Introduction Heist was an easy difficulty box that combined credential harvesting, spraying, dumping a process to capture further credentials and a final spray to get Administrator access. OVer...