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Breaking things
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I'm Michelle — security engineer sharing pentesting research, study notes, and lessons from the field. Turning complex topics into approachable language.

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Two Walls and a Google: Pentesting a Flutter App
Flutter doesn't use your proxy or trust your cert. Here's how we intercepted it anyway, and why the hardest wall wasn't one we were allowed to break.
Article
Project Glasswing: Who Gets to Hold Mythos, and Why It Matters
Anthropic gated Mythos to twelve partners. The decision behavior signals industrial unilateralism — what it means for builders and attackers in the gated era.
Article
Part 2: nmap dissected — don't blow your cover before you've even started
Going beneath the hood — how nmap really discovers hosts, what changes across subnets, and why the default "stealth" flags aren't that stealthy.
Article · Part 2
Part 1: nmap — why it's everyone's first scan
What nmap actually does, why everyone runs it first, and where depth and stealth start pulling in opposite directions.
Article · Part 1
I Updated My LinkedIn. Two Days Later, Someone Impersonated My CEO.
How phishing emails find you using LinkedIn scrapers, and how to spot them before they do — a real incident breakdown.
Article
Cybersecurity, Scammers, and Confidence
Guest on 她Ta Zhi Dao — how scammers collect your data, social engineering in Asia, and building confidence as a woman in security.
Podcast
Serendipity in Giving
Volunteering at the Women in Tech Global Summit 2025 in Osaka — how showing up and giving fully turns serendipity into something tangible.
Medium
Study Notes
Reference
CRTP Study Notes
Full AD red team kill chain — from AMSI bypass and domain enumeration to Kerberos attacks, persistence, and cross-forest trust abuse.
Cheatsheet
Exploiting Databases
SQL injection and exploitation reference for Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL — from union-based extraction to RCE and WAF bypass.
Notes
Exploiting ViewState
ASP.NET deserialization to RCE via ysoserial.net — TypeConfuseDelegate and ActivitySurrogateSelector gadget chains explained.
Playbook
Intercepting Flutter Apps
Command-by-command playbook for getting Flutter traffic into Burp — reFlutter, PCAPdroid, and gost to beat the app's own networking and TLS stack.
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Security engineer based in Taipei. I spend my days finding what's broken in systems and helping organizations understand what's actually at risk.

I write about what I break and what I learn. If something cost me hours to figure out, I write it down so it costs you minutes.

Currently: researching, breaking, documenting.
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