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Security Engineer @Google red team ☁️ artist by night ☁️ CTFs with @mmm_ctf_team and @maplebaconctf ☁️ @UBC alumni ☁️ opinions expressed are my own ☁️ she/her

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Vie
1 year
I started out 2020 pretty starry-eyed and excited I popped a babySQLi in PicoCTF. I figured DEFCON was a reasonable 7 year goal. Never expected to be here, after 3 years. Not to be sappy, but I might just cry.
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2 months
This weekend I played in DUCTF! I solved the hardest web challenge with a teammate. The writeup is here. TL;DR - tsconfig.json isn’t actually json Thank you to the organizers, especially for kicking me out of hibernation of my blog!
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Vie
9 months
I have recently been getting a lot of requests to talk about how I started my CTF journey, how to get better, etc etc I really appreciate that people respect me enough to value my insight, but I actually wanted to address a really saddening comment I sometimes see:
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Vie
3 months
thinking about back when i was struggling to solve googlectf 2021 challenges and now im making googlectf 2024 challenges
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2 years
My friends say I have nice handwriting + they love looking at my notes. I’m NOT an expert in the topics I write about, these are less “how-tos” and more “fun stuff I learned” so I decided to host a few since I figure they may be helpful to someone:
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Vie
2 years
Met the awesome @ptrYudai at ICC!! 🔥⭐️
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11 months
Here is my author writeup for my challenge in MapleCTF, JUJUTSU KAISEN. The solve is: ServiceWorker-intercepted POST-based img-tag CSRF -> ESI injection into IDAT chunks of png -> image oracle XS-leak
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2 years
I’m drawing her for a CTF challenge lmao
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@vie_pls
Vie
8 months
Year recap! Places visited: 🇮🇹🇸🇬🇯🇵🇨🇭🇵🇭 Highlights: - made a bunch of new CTF friends - DEFCON31 - Organizer of art design in hackceler8 - Authored a challenge for GoogleCTF - Found BUGS New Years Resolutions: - more bugs! - more friends! - more places to visit!
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Vie
2 months
GoogleCTF is over, thank you to all who played! I authored the web challenge “Grand Prix Heaven” and the own challenge “HEAT” with @_tsuro . Thank you to everyone who looked at those challenges!
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Vie
4 years
Me when Six and Mono from little nightmares 2 hold hands
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@vie_pls
Vie
2 years
A 2022 recap —- graduated from UBC —- Infosec engineer job —- said goodbye to Vancouver —- DEFCON First Place with team MMM! —- Led MB into one of their best years so far —- closed 2-3 years of team captaining for MB —- MapleCTF 🍁 —- Travelled to Athens, Greece & Vegas, USA
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3 months
It’s me, Vie, doing her first talk this year!
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2 years
WE WON DEFCON WITH @mmm_ctf_team !!!! Thank you @Nautilus_CTF for organizing :>
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2 years
@gf_256 I love side-effect free infinite loops yielding undefined behaviour
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Vie
1 year
Started from maple bacon now I’m here :)
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1 year
Both extremely excited and extremely nervous to be on the other side and helping organize GoogleCTF
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Vie
1 year
It is… my birthday
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Vie
2 years
A (late) life update: I stepped down as @maplebaconctf team captain since I graduated from UBC this year - it feels right to pass the mantle from me to my fantastic successors. You’ll still see me playing with mb, I’m far from done with CTFs :> (I’ll miss you YVR)
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Vie
6 months
I looked through biosCTF’s ezv8 and ezv8 revenge challenges - fun stuff! Thanks for the opportunity to start exercising my v8 skills more :)
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Vie
9 months
Climbing with @_tsuro and @sirdarckcat :P
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8 months
My New Year’s resolution is to fuck around and find out
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1 year
Better late than never :P FWIW I get kinda soap-opera-y here, but I've been reminiscing alot about my start in CTFs so that coalesced into a blog post pretty easily
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17 days
MMM activities
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1 month
Who wants to pair up for DEF CON and recreate this photo
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1 year
In Italy :>
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2 months
🔥🔥TURN UP THE HEAT 🔥🔥 my vie8 challenge is OUT!
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Vie
11 months
This is the character I designed and drew for Hackceler8! Will Mew save the day?
@GoogleVRP
Google VRP (Google Bug Hunters)
11 months
Meet Bartholomew, or Mew for short, the hero of Hackceler8 2023! The evil AI took over, and it's up to Mew to save the day! #GoogleCTF
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Vie
1 year
A preview of the Hx8 game is now out, so that means a preview of some of the artwork and graphical assets I made are out :)
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Vie
2 years
Thank you thank you for participating in @pb_ctf ⭐️ I authored the web challenge Makima, and my art of her is here. :> I hope you had fun, it was a bit sad cause my original idea of the challenge was too complicated to implement. Regardless. - I hope you had fun with it!
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1 year
See you in October ;)
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1 month
I am older today
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Vie
2 years
I may or may not have written a challenge 👀 come check it out!
@pb_ctf
perfect blue
2 years
It's finally happening! pbctf 2023 is here 🗓️ Feb 18th, 14:00 UTC to Feb 20th 02:00 UTC (36 hours) 🎁 A $10,000 prize pool Proudly sponsored by @Zellic_io
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2 years
Some pretty pictures of Vegas :)
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Vie
5 months
Have we considered just asking the processor nicely not to speculate
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Vie
1 year
Whoever solves all my challenges in MapleCTF 2023 I’ll make and draw a mascot/avatar of your team
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4 months
making a ctf challenge where it's just "submit a diss track, whoever has the best bars gets the flag"
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9 months
@ZetaTwo @LiveOverflow My first month learning CTFs weren’t productive cause I learned the vuln in a vacuum so didn’t know of legit, real-world applications that I could use said vuln. When I reformatted my learning style to get the context first before the vuln, I started actually developing my skills
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Vie
11 months
Japan
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2 months
Getting complimented on the CTF challenge you authored >>>> Getting complimented on your form by your trainer >>>>>>
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Vie
1 year
Manifesting doing a talk next year’s Blackhat or defcon
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Vie
9 days
MMM MMM MMM 3 in a row ✨
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2 years
MapleCTF concluding and I’m about to have the BEST nap of my life soon
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Vie
11 months
Did u like Mew 👉👈
@kleptographic
William
11 months
We took second in Hackceler8! This was such an amazing competition, but also so intense. Now, time to enjoy Tokyo :D
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8 months
Motherland
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1 year
Vie is in Vegas call that Las VIEgas
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1 year
Trying digital notes for a change Trying to remember everything I can about x86 so I can start writing about other things :P
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9 months
Zurich has been an incredibly lovely place. everyone I met up with are people who are both very smart and very inspiring. I’m sad to be leaving :(
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Vie
2 years
This is my emotional support onion 🧅
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@zaratec4
Carolina Zarate
2 years
These are our emotional support birbs 🐦
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2 years
It’s my bday and I’m spending it hacking
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3 months
Haha that’s also me
@a41con
Area41 Security Con
3 months
#AREA41 livestreaming for track1 is on - check it out
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Vie
2 years
Maybe diving into a kernel pwn during HITCON wasn’t the smartest first step to learn about kernel pwn but at least I learned something :P
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2 months
Oh yeah, btw, I was in Switzerland last week! :) attending @a41con and stuff!
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Vie
1 year
JINMO ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Vie
11 months
JUJUTSU KAISEN was my MapleCTF challenge, which was using an image primitive with an ESI:includes to include a graphql response and make an XS-Leak oracle out of invalid/valid image loads when you make a POST req (serviceworker intercepted). I made a few other small ones too.
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Vie
1 year
Impressing my crush with all the bug reports I’ve made (every single one of them is marked duplicate)
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Vie
3 months
LONG AHH PIZZA
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2 years
zzzZ
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10 months
Vie is in: 📍🇨🇭
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Vie
2 years
Man
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4 months
I hate the thing about growing up when you’re like “fuck, my parents were right about this”
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1 year
Went to an aquarium today
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11 months
Very excited for hackceler8! All of my graphical artwork will be on display very very soon
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Vie
2 years
I’m the author of the web challenges honksay, Viene Library and Art Gallery. I hope you guys had fun with my chals :>
@maplebaconctf
Maple Bacon
2 years
MapleCTF has concluded 🍁🥓 Massive thank you to everyone who played. We Maple Bacon hope you had a fun time with our challenges! And special congrats to @redrocket_ctf , @dicegangctf and @SHC_Challenge for achieving top 3!!
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1 year
Ready?
@GoogleVRP
Google VRP (Google Bug Hunters)
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2 years
Taking a mild break from CTFs ara ara
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Vie
1 year
I flew in to Vancouver to surprise visit my team for quals and I’m waiting in the airport for the red eye flight back operating on half a burger and a leftover can of monster energy drink
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Vie
3 months
Seeing someone memorize all regex conventions and writing out complex regular expressions with no failures deeply terrifies me like wdym you don’t know what regex101 . com is
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1 year
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5 months
An incredible inspiration of mine. Extremely saddened by this news.
@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
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Sophia d’Antoine was walking just half a block from her Upper East Side apartment when the Land Rover hit her.
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Vie
2 years
MB is defcon-bound baybeeeee
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2 years
Athens
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2 years
How did I get from DOM stuff to here
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4 months
This happened a while ago, but I and some friends in Google did a little guest lecture at UBC over topics in computer security, and security engineering careers in general. It was fun. Thank you to @nneonneo for allowing me + my friends to share our thoughts :)
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Vie
18 days
I pray to Chiitan that DEF CON CTF goes smoothly
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Vie
2 years
At SPYSCAPE NYC lol
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5 months
Tfw you’ve been sitting on a 0day for a hot minute and wait too long to see it get patched
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2 years
Btw, my pfp I drew:
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24 days
I was in the Netherlands and Monaco! 🇳🇱🇲🇨
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Vie
11 months
My mascot/avatar prize offer is also real - if you manage to solve all of my challenges, I’ll happily make a character for you :>
@maplebaconctf
Maple Bacon
1 year
Announcing MapleCTF 2023! 30 Sept 00:00 UTC - 02 Oct 00:00 UTC. Thank you to our sponsors: @zellic_io , @trailofbits , @Hacker0x01 , @offsectraining , @vector35 , and @googlecloud !
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Vie
1 year
join us :)
@ZetaTwo
Calle Svensson
1 year
Come join us in the Google red team! We have a position open in NYC: The team is fantastic and the work is really cool. Message me if you have questions about the role but if you are interested please don't wait to get your application in.
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1 year
Not to sound mainstream but I am excited for Vegas
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Vie
6 months
couples who get nerd-sniped together stay together
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8 months
my new years resolution is to bring back spectre
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1 year
MapleCTF development lol
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9 months
Ask questions, and make sure that you take the opportunity every CTF challenge you try to learn every facet of it as possible within your means. Example: dont just learn XSS, learn how the browser DOM works. You will find yourself enjoying your learning journey,
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9 months
I drew the logo but DID NOT make the trophies, but I am so happy at how these turned out 🥹
@PotluckCTF
PotluckCTF
9 months
In addition to the honor, CTFTime points and Binary Ninja licenses (courtesy of our sponsor, @vector35 ), the teams are also fighting over these gorgeous custom-made trophies which will be awarded to the top three. Don't miss the chance to win one of these delicious masterpieces!
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7 months
why...are they 2 different shades of black...
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1 year
Start of a new era
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1 year
I miss Vancouver :(
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Vie
2 years
Flag-first design template - you think of the flag value then uhh try and make a whole challenge around it
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Vie
4 months
I just got mad cause I pulled on a chair and left a mark on the floor from the chair leg scraping across it and got upset at myself for not attaching those fuzzy chair leg stickers preventing this very scenario. Now the voice in my head that sounds like my mom is laughing at me
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4 months
Things I drew
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