xarkes' blog
RSS - AtomThis is a place where I put all kind of things I have in mind, with a focus on IT security and hacking in general. You'll find topics related to CTF challenges, reverse engineering, game hacking, etc.
Latest posts
Bitwarden code review
Jun 30, 2024
An analysis of Bitwarden's desktop client source code in an attempt to understand its encryption mec...
Coding and watching a series on one screen
Jun 2, 2024
This is my setup on how to have a translucid text editor on top of a video in order to code and watc...
Avoiding TLS certificate leakage with Nginx
Mar 6, 2024
Having a Nginx configuration file with `server_name _;` is not enough for it to match any not suppor...
SSTIC 2021 - Challenge writeup
Jun 8, 2021
A writeup of the famous SSTIC challenge (edition 2021) written in French.
DEFCON quals 2021 - Exploit for dummies challenge writeup
May 10, 2021
Writeup for the "Exploit for dummies" challenge of DEFCON qualifiers 2021 featuring gdb, ELF craftin...
FCSC 2021 - The Offenders reverse engineering challenge writeup
May 3, 2021
Writeup of "The Offenders" challenge from FCSC 2021, emulating Windows Defender using mpclient and d...
Making an in-game Lineage 2 Bot
Dec 30, 2020
How to make a Lineage 2 Bot? This blogpost explains how I made a quick bot for Lineage 2 Classic, wr...