My Blog Posts

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I earned OSWE on my first try!

June 9, 2025

Back in November 2024, me and my university CTF team NuttyShell placed champion on PwC's Darklab Hack A Day CTF competition. One of the champion prizes is "Sponsorship of Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) PEN-200 certification (90-day lab access)". Since I already earned OSCP back in 2023, and having a strong interest in web security, I requested the organizer to switch it to OffSec Web Expert (OSWE), which they happily did so! Eventually, I earned OSWE on June 2nd, 2025![…]

Tags: OSWE, certicicate

I earned OSCP on my second attempt!

September 21, 2023

After my first attempt back on August 28, 2022, I wrote a blog post about my utter failure in that attempt. This time, however, I finally earned the OSCP certificate with 80/100 points![…]

Tags: OSCP, certicicate

I wrote an interactive phishing lab website!

March 31, 2023

In my Higher Diploma in Cybersecurity at Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE), there is a curriculum called "Whole Person Development - Collaboration, Teamwork & Social Engagement" (SDD4006), which requires student to conduct a group project aimed at "How young people can learn from cyberattacks and develop good practices in cybersecurity." by achieving one of the United Nations (UN)'s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). After some discussions with group members, we decided to build a website that teaches people about phishing attacks through an interactive lab.[…]

Tags: Phishing, lab

OSCP First Attempt Failled

August 31, 2022

Around May 27 2022, I bought the PWK and OSCP exam ($1,499), and started the PWK course at Jun 6 2022. You may be surprised why I chose OSCP after learning ethical hacking for just 2 months. The reason why for that is I wanna learn more stuff about cybersecurity, so I googled "Certificate for cybersecurity", and I saw a couple of well-known certificates, such as OSCP, PNPT, CEH, etc.[…]

Tags: OSCP, certicicate