New Year’s Day Tech Roundup Starting 2026 with a dive into what’s trending on Hacker News! Here are the most interesting stories making waves in the tech community. 🔐 Security Alert: Bluetooth ...

Overview This guide covers common network issues when running Kali Linux in UTM on Apple Silicon Macs (M1, M2, M3, M4). If your Kali VM can’t connect to the internet, network icon keeps spinning, ...

Overview This guide documents setting up a Tor relay on macOS (M4 Max MacBook Pro), including troubleshooting issues, port forwarding on a Vodafone Gigabox router, monitoring with nyx, and creatin...

Overview This post documents my journey through the c4ptur3-th3-fl4g CTF steganography challenges. I’ll share the problems I hit, the mistakes I made, and how I solved each task. If you’re learnin...

The Problem: “One File to Rule Them All” We started with a classic developer situation: fragmentation. Our Emoji Toolkit was split into multiple personalities: emoji-aliases.sh: The functional ...

The Problem You open your terminal, ready to hack, and type docker ps or try to start a container. Instead of a list of containers, you get this error: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix...

Overview Sweep is a medium-difficulty Windows machine from VulnLab, featured on TJnull’s OSCP preparation list. This box focuses on Active Directory enumeration, Lansweeper exploitation, and creat...

Overview Getting Claude Code working with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Kali Linux opens up powerful capabilities like database access, web search, and context management directly from y...

Why Organization Matters When I started blogging, I just threw posts up without thinking about structure. Big mistake! As your blog grows, finding content becomes a nightmare - both for you and yo...

The Problem: “Where’s My New Release?” You’ve just pushed a bunch of updates to your GitHub repository. You’ve incremented your version number in the code, updated your CHANGELOG, pushed everythin...