Life Updates and Other Ramblings

Washi publishes his Flare-On 12 write-ups, reflecting on the challenge set — praising it as fun but wanting more realistic, malware-oriented tasks — with links to the full solutions.

Despite half a year of health setbacks, Washi still placed 16th in Flare-On 11 and shares links to his full write-up archive covering all challenges, including the toughest ones.

A DEFCON CTF Quals 2023 write-up for 'brinebid': combining a Python pickle-based client, a JavaScript VM server and a VM vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution and capture the flag.

Washi's first blog post: a short introduction to the author, a hobbyist programmer and reverse engineer focused on compilers, decompilers and obfuscation, and what the blog will cover.

PortSwigger explains the missing Mac release of Burp 2021.10.2: its new archive-based update replaced the whole app folder, wiping project files saved there, so the release was pulled.

Barrett Darnell describes designing a realistic office-themed capture-the-flag for DEF CON Safe Mode's Red Team Village, mirroring his daily work in continuous attack surface testing.