Patch or attack? Inside the Windows Secure Hotpatch Report
How the Windows Secure Hotpatch Report uses VTL1 attestation to help anti-cheat and security tools tell legitimate hotpatches from kernel tampering.
Notes on Windows kernel internals, security, and the systems I work on and break.
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How the Windows Secure Hotpatch Report uses VTL1 attestation to help anti-cheat and security tools tell legitimate hotpatches from kernel tampering.

Winning HackInOut's blockchain track with a radical idea to kill spam forever

11 keyboard shortcuts that turn Sublime Text into a productivity beast

We nearly quit our Postgres internals project — our professor's passion talk changed everything

Advanced exploitation techniques, mitigation bypasses, and a live demo you don't want to miss

How we built a 3D Unity game in 30 hours and won Ubisoft's GameJam 2017

Kick-starting IIT Bombay's cybersecurity club with a hands-on buffer overflow vodcast

Outputting Unicode emoji from C and C++ with raw UTF-8 byte arrays and Unicode escapes — and the encoding details that matter.

The subtle difference between running commands in sequence, only on success, and only on failure — which trips up most terminal users.
A curated collection of powerful Unix terminal commands every developer should know

Capturing the WPA2 four-way handshake and brute-forcing it with Aircrack-ng

Every token in that cryptic one-liner — bitness, architecture, ABI, dynamic linking, interpreter — explained one at a time.

Single vs double vs no quotes — how shell expansion changes everything
My first blog post — introducing myself and why I started writing about coding and computer science.