<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>ViiniFX's Blog</title><link>https://blog.franco.ie/</link><description>Recent content on ViiniFX's Blog</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>© 2026</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0100</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.franco.ie/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>PGP Key</title><link>https://blog.franco.ie/pgp-key/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://blog.franco.ie/pgp-key/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Rogue Planet</title><link>https://blog.franco.ie/posts/rogueplanet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:43:04 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://blog.franco.ie/posts/rogueplanet/</guid><description>How &lt;strong&gt;NightmareEclipse&lt;/strong&gt; managed to get a mixture of love/hate from security researchers, piss off Microsoft, make them speedrun a hotfix that make things even worse, then after the vulnerability was properly patched, &lt;em&gt;NightmareEclipse&lt;/em&gt; shows another ace up his sleeves. Read this blog to find out about the new 0-day &lt;strong&gt;ShieldBreak&lt;/strong&gt;</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blog.franco.ie/posts/rogueplanet/featured-anime_eyes.avif"/></item><item><title>Nebula: Level 02</title><link>https://blog.franco.ie/education/nebula/nebula-level-02/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://blog.franco.ie/education/nebula/nebula-level-02/</guid><description>Abusing an unsanitized &lt;strong&gt;$USER&lt;/strong&gt; variable passed straight into &lt;code&gt;system()&lt;/code&gt; to inject arbitrary commands and escalate to &lt;code&gt;flag02&lt;/code&gt;.</description></item><item><title>Nebula: Level 01</title><link>https://blog.franco.ie/education/nebula/nebula-level-01/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://blog.franco.ie/education/nebula/nebula-level-01/</guid><description>Hijacking the &lt;strong&gt;PATH&lt;/strong&gt; environment variable to trick a SUID binary into running our own &lt;code&gt;echo&lt;/code&gt; and popping a root shell.</description></item><item><title>Nebula: Level 00</title><link>https://blog.franco.ie/education/nebula/nebula-level-00/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://blog.franco.ie/education/nebula/nebula-level-00/</guid><description>Finding a &lt;strong&gt;SUID&lt;/strong&gt; binary owned by &lt;code&gt;flag00&lt;/code&gt; and abusing it to escalate privileges on exploit.education&amp;rsquo;s Nebula VM.</description></item><item><title>OSINT Resources</title><link>https://blog.franco.ie/useful/osint-resources/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://blog.franco.ie/useful/osint-resources/</guid><description>A curated toolbox for OSINT investigations — username/email/IP lookups, social graph mapping, metadata, and reverse-image search, organized around &lt;strong&gt;verification questions&lt;/strong&gt; instead of a flat link dump.</description></item><item><title>Hacking Forums</title><link>https://blog.franco.ie/useful/hacking-forums/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://blog.franco.ie/useful/hacking-forums/</guid><description>A running list of hacking, leak, and carding forums — which are &lt;strong&gt;established&lt;/strong&gt;, which are just noise, and which are &lt;strong&gt;dangerous&lt;/strong&gt; honeypots to avoid.</description></item></channel></rss>