Rrathsarainrr-cyber.hashnode.dev·5h ago · 15 min readWindows: Where Data Hides and How It's FoundA file called Secret.exe reports 25 bytes on disk. Nothing in Explorer, nothing in a standard dir listing, and nothing in Task Manager disagrees with that number. Run dir /r instead of dir, and the sa00
JLJeremy Longshoreinjeremylongshore.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 10 min readThree Gates on Standard-User BitLocker State ObservationThe day started with a P1 on merge day Closing intent-blue-gold Epic 1+2 was supposed to be the easy part. The hard parts were the constraints, set in DOC-075/A03: a standard-user account on ARM64 Win00
JLJeremy Longshoreinjeremylongshore.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 10 min readThree Gates on Standard-User BitLocker State ObservationThe day started with a P1 on merge day Closing intent-blue-gold Epic 1+2 was supposed to be the easy part. The hard parts were the constraints, set in DOC-075/A03: a standard-user account on ARM64 Win00
DDelandindeland.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 8 min readTwo translation layers and a TPM you have to fake: Windows on Apple SiliconDisclosure up front: I build Kyvenza, a paid VM manager for Apple Silicon. This post is about the platform constraints, not a pitch — I'll be specific about where my own app is worse than the free alt00
JLJeremy Longshoreinjeremylongshore.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 10 min readThree Gates on Standard-User BitLocker State ObservationThe day started with a P1 on merge day Closing intent-blue-gold Epic 1+2 was supposed to be the easy part. The hard parts were the constraints, set in DOC-075/A03: a standard-user account on ARM64 Win00
MMMichael Miroshnichenkoinhetman-software.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 11 min readRecovering Deleted Windows EFS Files from NTFS: Why the Private Key MattersWindows EFS can look deceptively simple from the user’s point of view. You right-click a file or folder, enable encryption, and Windows continues to open it almost like any other file. The recovery si00
ASAnubhav Singhinblog.anubhavsingh.dev·5d ago · 15 min readHow my automation agent went from 100 round-trips to zeroAfter every trip I rename my photos to the date and time they were taken, using the date stored inside each photo rather than the file's date. The first time I asked my agent to do it, it wrote a prog10
Uunrilwinfoca-upscaler.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 12 min readCupscale in 2026: Status, Issues & Modern AlternativesIf you stepped into the AI image super-resolution space over the past couple of years, your toolkit likely revolves around modern desktop utilities like Upscayl, specialized suites like Topaz Photo AI00
KLKamran Liaquat Aliinkamranbuilds.hashnode.dev·Sep 10 · 5 min readHow to Generate and Understand a Windows Battery Report with PowerShellA laptop can show 100% charge and still provide much less runtime than it did when it was new. The charge percentage only tells you how full the battery is right now. It does not tell you how much cap00
MM1Hinm1h.hashnode.dev·Sep 9 · 5 min readOSCP-LK: Achieving System Administrator Privileges via Credential Harvesting, MSSQL Impersonation, and Registry ExtractionOverview: This box is an OSCP preparation, a hosted version of the OSCP-LK set. OSCP-LK is a set of machines in the style of the PEN 200 labs and exam to help you sharpen your enumeration, creative th10
