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Diving into picoCTF: part 1

What is picoCTF? (from official website)

picoCTF is a free computer security education program with original content built on a capture-the-flag framework created by security and privacy experts at Carnegie Mellon University.

The following are my writeups on the first few “General Skills” challenges.

Cold Booting into Performance Testing

Please note, some information may be altered to preserve project confidentiality.

How it all started

At around the middle point of 2022, our team got instructed by a subject matter expert on how to design and conduct a performance test, this included the use of the tool k6 and Grafana as an observability platform for our metric dashboards.

Which was all well and good, assuming we’d get to use it.

Hello World

Introduction

Just trying to get Hugo all set up

Main point of the blog will hopefully be security writeups, general learnings and mostly technical writings, I don’t expect it to blow up on hackernews or anything.