Patch or attack? How Windows proves a kernel change is legit
How the Windows Secure Hotpatch Report uses VTL1 attestation to tell legitimate hotpatches from kernel tampering. Full post coming soon.
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 tell legitimate hotpatches from kernel tampering. Full post coming soon.

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.