PancakesCon is an excellent community online conference that I wish to never see again. It first began as an impromptu, virtual hacker con in March 2020 as a result of the closure of all the in-person conferences. Now in its 3rd rendition as we enter the 3rd year of the pandemic, it continues to be …

Datadog held a small 2-hour CTF at the conclusion of RSA 2021 in partnership with HackTheBox. The challenges were a mix of defensive (on Datadog’s new security product) and offensive challenges. I completed 6 of the 11 challenges in 1.5 hours, putting me at #27 out of 78 teams. My teammate had …

HackerOne announced a time-limited CTF with AWS between April 5 and April 12, 2021. I thought http://flaws.cloud and http://flaws2.cloud were excellent preparation for completing this CTF. The CTF awarded 26 points on HackerOne’s CTF platform, which results in an invitation to a private bug …