National Cyber League competition starting

I recently found out about an annual CTF competition by the National Cyber League. It’s designed to help newbies and high school students get some groundwork under them in cybersecurity. While I’m long since not a high school student, I’m still a newbie, so I figured I’d register and give it a go. It’s broken into several

Advent of Cyber Day 5

Walkthrough for Day 5 of the Advent of Cyber challenge: Hohoho-sint.

Advent of Cyber Day 4

Walkthrough for Day 4 of the Advent of Cyber challenge: Training

Advent of Cyber Day 3

Walkthrough for Day 3 of the Advent of Cyber challenge: Evil Elf.

Advent of Cyber Day 2

Walkthrough for Day 2 of the Advent of Cyber challenge: Arctic Forum

Advent of Cyber Day 1

Walkthrough for Day 1 of the Advent of Cyber challenge: Inventory Management.

Advent of Cyber

Starting my journey into hacking with TryHackMe’s Christmas 2019 challenge.

C’est fin

I completed my master’s paper!

Just getting started

I’ve got the degrees… I’ve got an alphabet soup of certifications… but what I don’t have is the experience to land a job in cybersecurity. Yet. I’ll be chronicling my foray into the realm of hacking, pen testing, and general infosec. This will probably include notes about training, CTFs, books, interesting articles, whatever. Mostly it’s

About the fox

Howdy. This blog is for me; I don’t expect a lot of traffic, so creating an “about me” page seems like an exercise in self-aggrandizement. Oh well. I’m Elim. I’ve been in IT in one manner or another for about 20 years… more if you count pre-career hobbies. I got my first computer, a Mattel