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Python Up Your Code: Lists in Memory

Python lists and their internal representation in memory — Upgrading our knowledge on Python lists, it’s time I wrote about some of the inner workings of a list in Python. Lists, as we might already know, are sequences of elements not necessarily of the same type. Each element can be of any data type, including lists. Elements in a…

Python

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Python

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Published in The Gray Area

·3 days ago

OverTheWire Wargames: Bandit L12

Bandit Level 12 Write-Up — Greetings! Bandit’s Level 12 challenge awaits us. Let’s not keep it waiting for too long, shall we? As you most likely know by now, we’re going to need the flag from the previous level. All other details are pretty much the same: Address: bandit.labs.overthewire.org; Port: 2220; Username: bandit12; Password: flag…

Hacking

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Hacking

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Published in The Gray Area

·Dec 4

OverTheWire Wargames: Bandit L11

Bandit Level 11 Write-Up — Cheers! Ready for Bandit Level 11? The previous level was pretty short, but fun, nonetheless. We got to play with Base64 encoding / decoding a bit. …

Hacking

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Hacking

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Published in The Gray Area

·Nov 30

OverTheWire Wargames: Bandit L10

Bandit Level 10 Write-Up — Hi, again! Following the last installment, where we successfully completed Bandit’s Level 9, we’re now moving one step further. That’s right, Level 10 awaits us. This is going to be yet another nice and straightforward challenge, not too complex, but we’ll be learning and using some new tools this time. …

Hacking

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Hacking

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Published in The Gray Area

·Nov 25

OverTheWire Wargames: Bandit L09

Bandit Level 9 write-up — Greetings! Ready for another cybersecurity challenge? This article’s gonna be all about Bandit Level 9. Still got the flag from the previous level, right? This will be our password for this level. Logging in should be a breeze by now, as we’ve done it many times over: address: bandit.labs.overthewire.org; port…

Hacking

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Hacking

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Published in The Gray Area

·Nov 20

OverTheWire Wargames: Bandit L08

Bandit Level 8 write-up — Greetings! Following our previous challenge, today we’re going to tackle the 8th installment in the Bandit series. Talk is cheap so let’s get right into it. The briefing is pretty clear about this level. It tells us that the flag we’re looking for is sitting around somewhere inside the data.txt…

Hacking

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Hacking

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Nov 14

OverTheWire Wargames: Bandit L07

Bandit Level 7 write-up — After we completed Level 6, we moved on to the next step. The briefing for Level 7 is quite… well, brief. According to what’s written over there, our flag is to be found in some file called data.txt …

Hacking

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Hacking

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Nov 10

OverTheWire Wargames: Bandit L06

Bandit Level 6 write-up — Picking up from where we left off, Level 6 of the Bandit Wargame awaits us. We should definitely check out its briefing, as precious information is sure to be found. And rightly so, we find that our password file we’re after is stored inside a file on the machine. We…

Hacking

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Hacking

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Published in Python in Plain English

·Nov 3

Up Your Coding Skills With Python: Match Statement

Python’s alternative to the Switch statement from C/C++ — Greetings! Today I thought to share a relatively new addition to the Python programming language. By relatively new I mean it has seen the light of day somewhere in October 2021, as part of the Python 3.10 release. …

Python

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Python

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Published in The Techlife

·Oct 28

Python Up Your Code: Mixins

What are mixins and why would we need to use them? — I guess we’ve all heard of mixins, at some point. But even if we didn’t, it’s still worth a look, albeit a brief one. It just might pay off in the end. …

Python

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Python

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