DFIR – CTF – LootStash
The Hack The Box CTF Challenge ‘LootStash’ is another software reverse engineering task. Like before, the objective is to obtain the flag! Challenge: LootStash The LootStash challenge presents it self as a ‘giant weapons cache’ which you are able to open and obtain a item. However, there’s only one...
Restored Blog Posts
I have recently added a bunch of old archived blog posts which were found amonst my backups. I’ve published them with their original date, but sadly a lot of the multimedia, links, and source code has been lost. Yes, the image is AI generated....
First post.
It has been a while since I created a blog post, or even maintained a blog. I hope to push this as part of a continual professional development....
Hash Table
Hash Table Published on 10 March, 2014 A hash table is a data structure that stores two components in each element, the key, and the value. They can also be referred to as hash maps, dictionaries, or associative arrays. The primary benefit of a hash table is the lookup...
Queue
Queue Published on 10 March, 2014 The queue data structure is a first in, first out type that has two core operations, enqueue, and dequeue. The queue needs to keep track of two pieces of data, the head of the queue, and the tail of the queue. The head...
Binary tree
Binary Tree Published on 10 March, 2014 A binary tree is a recursive data structure where data is stored in a node that has a value, and two pointers going left and right which go to another node. They have a similar visual representation of a tree, starting from...
Stack
Stack Published on 10 March, 2014 The stack data structure is a last in first out (LIFO) type that has two core operations, push, and pop. Only access to the top of the stack is available and there is no way to randomly access/modify an element in the middle...
Representing Negative Numbers in Binary
Representing Negative Numbers in Binary Published on 12 December, 2013 Binary is the fundamental number system used on computers, as it provides a way to denote if some thing is “on”, or “off”. Binary can also be referred to as the base two number system, where we humans commonly...