Cybersecurity, AI & Python Programming Blog

Cybersecurity blog featuring artificial intelligence projects, Python programming tutorials, CTF writeups, and security research by Mark LaCore.

Confession Booth CTF: Race Condition Privilege Escalation

2026-01-28 12:00:00 15 min read

Confession Booth CTF writeup: race condition exploit between user registration and permission assignment.

2026-01-06 12:00:00 12 min read

State of Affairs CTF writeup: Terraform state poisoning via TF_DATA_DIR and malicious provider injection.

2025-12-21 12:00:00 18 min read

Malware Busters CTF writeup: Go binary reverse engineering with UPX, garble obfuscation, and AES-CBC.

2025-12-10 12:00:00 15 min read

Game of Pods CTF writeup: Kubernetes privilege escalation via SSRF, path traversal, and nodes/proxy.

2025-10-07 12:00:00 10 min read

Needle in a Haystack CTF writeup: client-side bypass and GitHub OSINT to exploit exposed API secrets.

2025-09-18 14:30:00

Nerdbot: an autonomous robot companion built with Python, OpenCV, and computer vision.

2025-09-18 08:30:00

Automated blog cross-posting to Bluesky using AT Protocol SDK with duplicate detection and rich previews.

2025-09-17 14:00:00

Reached maximum points in the Wiz Cloud Security Championship with 3 challenges completed.

2025-09-07 12:00:00 12 min read

Breaking The Barriers CTF writeup: Azure OAuth privilege escalation via dynamic groups and guest invitations.

2025-07-30 10:16:23

Web-based simulator of my 18x18 RGB LED matrix project with plasma effects, games, and animations.

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