This is my writeup for the ‘classroom’ challenge in a Hack The Box CTF I participated in. I’m hoping my journey through solving this challenge with help others, and more specifically, people new to the field (like me). Introduce the challenge So this challenge is taken from the Pwn tab of the CTF…

This is part 3 of my Makefiles series where I share with you interesting stuff I learned about makefiles. If this is the first post you’re seeing of this series, I suggest you also check out part 1 and part 2. …

Welcome back :) So as I’ve talked about in part 1, I recently dove deeper into makefiles as part of my job and wanted to share with you some of what I learned. In part 1 I talked about some more basic concepts like Makefile syntax and Phony targets. In this…

Everyone knows what makefiles are right? Those files that do some voodoo and by simply running make suddenly your entire project is built. Most people leave it at that and don’t really care much more — if it’s not broken don’t fix it. …