In the Summer 2025 semester of my OMSCS journey, I decided to take IIS. This is a survey class covering various topics in computer security Grading The grading scale for the class was as follows:...
This post is an advanced overview of how CPU caches and the memory hierarchy works and how they are relevant from a security research perspective. We will cover multiple topics from the ground up, ...
In the Fall 2025 semester of my OMSCS journey, I decided to take High Performance Computer Architecture, where we delved into a variety of topics relating to computer organization and architecture ...
This is Part 2 of my two-part series on the ELF binary format. If you haven’t read Part 1, you can read it here. In this writeup, we will explore how an ELF file is loaded into memory and executed....
Ever wonder what exactly happens when you run an executable on Linux? In this post, I’ll be breaking down the details behind ELF, or the Executable and Linkable Format. ELF is a cross-platform bina...
I’ve decided to take a break and approach Flag 8 another time, as it appears to be far more of a challenge than I originally anticipated, involving getting into the weeds with steganography and fil...
Welcome to my writeup to capture the Level 7 flag in the CTF challenge in Practical Binary Analysis. This flag was one of the most difficult ones to retrieve, but it was also the most rewarding. U...
This is my solution to capture the Level 6 flag in the Practical Binary Analysis CTF challenge. I had some trouble with this flag due to some technical issues with discrepancies between the code on...
This is my writeup on Level 5 of the Practical Binary Analysis CTF challenge. This flag ended up being a lot more involved in order to successfully capture it. Fifth Flag: lvl5 If we pass lvl4’s ...
This is my writeup for Level 4 of the Practical Binary Analysis CTF challenge. Unlike the others, this flag was incredibly obvious and easy to retrieve, so I won’t waste any time going into unecess...