#ctf Articles


  • 2025-03-21
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Attempting to get better at reverse engineering

It's hard Usually in Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges I get stuck when it comes to reverse engineering. I never really studied programming in assembly or c. Taking some time as part of the monthly Training Day at $dayjob as Infrastructure Engineer @ datacrunch to get a bit better at this …

  • 2025-03-10
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Disobey 2025 Loihde Challenges

Loihde had a great CTF :) It got me doing something physical and talking to people. I also got to learn about $MFT / some kind of NTFS metadata (also contained whole files if the files are small enough?) That it's very nice with a team. Case in point: I was trying …

  • 2024-07-15
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Arranging a CTF - a Security Workshop

I organized a cybersecurity workshop during my last few days at IQM. The attendees included: Myself, taking on more of a coaching role and solving some challenges in advance to provide hints. Some participants who had attended my previous events. a few that had previously tried and solved security challenges …

  • 2023-10-30
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Linux World Cup - 2023

spoiler alert! Top 3 Position Competitor Alias Total Time to Solve 1 aretea 42 mins 13 secs 2 & 3 martbhell 47 mins 12 secs 2 & 3 mgubenko 47 mins 21 secs The challenges Recording from this event Chennai I was best! Took 21mins 28seconds Still 21 minutes was quite a …

  • 2023-08-13
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fixing sad servers in challenges!

Have been trying these web based Linux servers challenges out for a little while. seems to be a young service. They have a Linux World Cup coming up soon. Today is the last day to register! After participating in CTF these challenges were not so hard but interesting with new …

  • 2020-01-15
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Kringlecon 2019 Write-Up

The challenges Hoe the season to be jolly! Been giving a few CTFs lately. It started with the disobey 2020 puzzle to get the hacker ticket. Then there was the OverTheWire's 2019 advent CTF. And finally this one, the SANS holiday hackmechallenge - KringleCon 2019. As of writing I got …