What quantum computing actually is, explained simply and technically. How it could break the encryption the internet runs on, how far away that really is in 2026, and whether we should be as nervous as…
An internal assessment of our IoT vendors. Cameras, fire alarms, and more, still running default admin credentials. The most basic control, skipped even in the newest deployments, turned out to be our single biggest risk.
A picoCTF privilege escalation challenge. I had SSH access but couldn't read flag.txt. Checking sudo rights showed I could launch Emacs as root. I opened a root shell inside it and finally grabbed the flag.