Victor Casteur

Hey, I'm Victor

I'm a cybersecurity student at Howest University of Applied Sciences in Bruges, mostly curious about how things work and how they break.

This site is where I keep notes on what I'm learning: CTF writeups, recaps from conferences and meetups, lab experiments, and the occasional rant about a tool that almost worked. It's part portfolio, part public notebook, a place for me to keep track of progress and for anyone curious to follow along.

A bit about me

I went to BruCON, my first real "big" security conference, and the turning point wasn't a talk. It was a random conversation in the room with the stands. A teacher from Howest mentioned that the school was still looking for a few students to take part in Hack The Government and pointed me at the CCB stand a few metres away. A short chat, an email later, and I ended up on the participant list as one of only five students from Howest who got to go.

HTG itself was two weeks of legally poking at Belgian government and police websites under the Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure framework, with FPS BOSA, the Federal and Local Police, and Belgian Defence all in scope. I didn't find anything big, and that part was fine. Sitting in a room on the final day in Brussels swapping approaches with people who do this full-time was the actual point, and it confirmed I'm in the right field.

The lesson I keep coming back to from both: show up, and talk to people.

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