Personal blog for learning IT and cybersecurity skills.
iangge Blog Lore Fun Fact: The favicon of this blog (aka the browser tab icon) is a monarch butterfly because I used to be obsessed with butterflies as a kid. My parents would buy me so many books on bugs and insects, and I always made sure to catch all the bug types in Pokemon. I used to think I’d grow up to be some type of entomologist. However, reality set in and I realized I’m more of a...
Background Part of my job as a Computer Technician is performing hardware repairs for laptops under warranty. Today, a laptop came in that had a flickering screen. It would only boot up with Windows about half the time. When Windows loaded, I would try to login, but it would freeze after a minute. The other half of the time, nothing would load on the screen, yet the caps lock LED light would b...
Hello blog, it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I promise I have been active. This past school year has been my senior year at Cal Poly Pomona, so I’ve been trying to gain as much experience as I can. Earlier this month, I received my Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Information Systems from Cal Poly Pomona as well as my Network+ certification. There were lots of great projects I had t...
As a member of SWIFT’s (Students with an Interest in the Future of Technology) intern board, I helped put together a beginner friendly penetration-testing competition known as SCARE (SWIFT Crack Attack Root Event). The format was capture-the-flag (CTF) style. The theme was that a witch had turned all the competitors into frogs, so they had to use penetration-techniques to capture all the flags ...
Background on Maplestory I’ve been playing this game called Maplestory for a while, and the current update v262 caused an error where the game would not launch after trying to start it from Steam or the game’s dedicated Nexon Launcher. After attempting the basic fixes of restarting my computer, reinstalling the game, and verifying integrity of the game files, I finally stumbled across a soluti...