João Pedro Dias

There is this scene in WarGames (1983, which I have watched an embarrassing number of times) where a teenage hacker’s modem connects to what he thinks is a games company.

Another fun ride with a malware sample from out there in the wild.

Another day, another not so boring phishing attempt.

I’m always amused by the smell of a fresh phishing email in the morning.

On June 14, 2025, I organized a hardware hacking focused village as part of the ØxＯＰＯＳɆＣ Hack Day, and this is a post-mortem analysis of the village, focusing on some of the observations and common mishaps, and how to improve your journey in the hardware…

Some months ago I decided to finally acquire a weather station.

It all started with a QNAP NAS to backup my raw photography’s and have some way to store other media files.

Inspired by the blogpost My Red Team assessment hardware by David Sopas this post describes hardware tools that I have in my inventory, their purpose as well as the features/firmwares/tricks that motivated me to buy them.

Well, I guess it is better late than never, so almost four months after the closing of the OPOSEC XMAS CTF Challenge Christmas 2022 this is my write-up on how I did manage to solve all the challenges and finish in the 4th place.

Some weeeks ago I’ve participated in the “Portuguese Cybersecurity Competition” organized by InvestAmarante and powered by hackrocks.