https://xss3cut10n3r.com/tags/reflection/Recent content in Reflection on XSS3cut10n3rHugoen-USSat, 03 Oct 2026 00:08:00 +0100https://xss3cut10n3r.com/posts/nsa-codebreaker-2025/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:08:00 +0100https://xss3cut10n3r.com/posts/nsa-codebreaker-2025/<p>The 2025 NSA Codebreaker Challenge was my first Codebreaker, and I completed all seven tasks, becoming one of 82 students to finish the full challenge. It was a chance to connect skills that I had often practiced separately: filesystem forensics, packet analysis, memory analysis, reverse engineering, cryptography, and application security.</p> <p>The challenge used a fictional investigation into suspicious activity on a military development network. Each task carried the investigation forward, so an answer was more than a flag - it supplied context for the next question.</p>