Bradin Rohde

Graduation

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I did it. After all these years, I’ve leveled up high enough to unlock the “Real World” zone. Today I don my +4 INT cap and +5 WIS gown armor set and walk across into a new phase of life. What’s next for me?

NCL - Spring 2026

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The main competition that we look forward to in the club, NCL has both and individual and a team competition that we compete in. I’ll be talking about my experience in the games, as well as my thoughts.

In-House CTF 2026

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the cybersecurity club, we have a tradition that the board members would put together a CTF for the students to play every spring semester. What made this different from the King of the Hill is that this event runs for the entire week, has more teams, and more complex challenges. This was my experience with building out some of those challenges.

HackUSU 2026: $hame

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The yearly Hack-A-Thon put on by Utah State University. This year me and my team competed in the Tool Development category, developing a program we call “$hame”. The idea was that we want the terminal to cause more stress, and the more you misspell commands, the more you get punished for it. I’ll be talking about our experience in building the project, as well as my other thoughts of the event.

My First "Pentest" Experience

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Cybersecurity club was asked to change our attendance system (again). Since most of us in the club would much rather just use the official university login, I asked if we could poke around and see if we could find any vulnerabilities in the site. After getting the green light, I went through and found some… issues.

King of the Hill

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

For Cybersecurity club this week, we built a knockout-style CTF to run for the hour. This is meant to be a warmup to get people excited about competing in NCL and the In-House CTF we’re hosting in March. I’m primarily focused on creating password cracking and network challenges, and I’ll talk about my process in building those out, as well as any other challenges I make.

PC1530 - Intro to Ophcrack

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An introductory lesson to Ophcrack. This lesson covers the basics of rainbow tables, how to install them, using them to crack unsalted LM and NTLM hashes.

PC1525 - JohnTheRipper Lab

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

PC1520 - Intro to John the Ripper

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An introductory lesson to JohnTheRipper. This lesson covers the wordlist, single crack, incremental, and mask attack modes.

PC1515 - Hashcat Lab

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

PC1510 - Intro to Hashcat

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An introductory lesson to Hashcat. This lesson will cover the usage of the dictionary, combinator, brute force, and hybrid attack modes

PC1010 - Intro to Password Cracking

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An introductory lesson for password cracking. This lesson covers the idea behind using hashes, how they are cracked, and various types of password attacks.

Network Hacking Intro

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I was asked to give a 5 minute presentation on the basics of network hacking for the Intro to Cybersecurity class. The goal was to demonstrate the importance of thinking like an attacker in order to defend yourself.

Password Cracking Course

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

root@brohde:~# cat PasswordCracking.txt

Welcome to one of my favorite subjects! Here we'll cover password cracking techniques from hash to cracked! More courses to come!

Beginner Courses

PC1010 - Intro to Password Cracking

An introductory lesson for password cracking. Covers the idea behind using hashes, how they are cracked, and various types of offline password attacks.

PC1510 - Intro to Hashcat

An introductory lesson to Hashcat. This lesson will cover the usage of the dictionary, combinator, brute force, and hybrid attack modes.

Learning Linux Mini-CTF

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Intro to Cybersecurity Class this week is learning how to use Linux. Since it’s still the beginning of the semester, it would be a good idea to have the club review their Linux commands as well. I put together a mini-CTF for the club meeting for students to hone in on their terminal knowledge. From changing directory to steganography, I hid 20 flag in a zip file for everyone to find.

ShellFire

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES

Before I became the TA for the Intro to Cybersecurity Course at Utah State, I helped out in the class as much as I could. Towards the end of the semester, the class was doing a Red vs Blue team tabletop simulation. It was pretty fun, and I found it to be a great learning tool for the students. However, it was done on pen and paper, and I thought it would be cool to automate it.

BOT vs Bots

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Cybersecurity Club’s collaboration event with the Baddies of Tech Club. We taught beginner cybersecurity topics, introduced some common website vulnerabilities, and exploited a few of them by hacking robots.

Intro to Password Cracking

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I taught the Intro to Cybersecurity class about some basic password cracking using Hashcat. Using basic knowledge of password hashes and common attack types, the students cracked both my MD5 and SHA1 hashlists by utilizing dictionary and brute force attacks.

BSides RedRocks 2025 - Gears, Grit, and Gaps

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I had the amazing opportunity to drive down and give my first conference talk at BSides Redrocks in St. George, UT. Coming in from mechanical engineering, I show my problem solving process that I use in class and use it to build a framework that can apply to solving various cybersecurity problems.

PwnHound

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES

When I first started getting into cybersecurity, I stumbled across the Pwnagotchi, a handheld device used for hacking that captures the 4 way handshake when some victim device connects to a wifi network. These captures can be analyzed and used to crack wifi passwords. I built one about a week later and fell in love with the form factor, the little avatar, and learning more about network security.

Homelab

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Like every good network nerd, I’ve got a homelab. From learning about firewall rules, to slapping an ungodly amount of raspberry pis together, the homelab is a great place to destroy, build, destroy.

1337ness

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After my very first CTF back in 2023, I was really interested in password cracking. It just makes you feel so powerful when hashcat comes back “Cracked”. With me being so new to password cracking and cybersecurity in general, I decided it would be worth writing a program that could help me crack more passwords. It would serve as a little project to learn shell scripting as well as some more python.

Photoswipe Gallery Sample

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Beautiful Hugo adds a few custom shortcodes created by Li-Wen Yip and Gert-Jan van den Berg for making galleries with PhotoSwipe .

Sphere

Triangle

Big Image Sample

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The image banners at the top of the page are refered to as “bigimg” in this theme. They are optional, and one more more can be specified. If more than one is specified, the images rotate every 10 seconds. In the front matter, bigimgs are specified using an array of hashes.

Math Sample

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

KaTeX can be used to generate complex math formulas server-side.

$$ \phi = \frac{(1+\sqrt{5})}{2} = 1.6180339887\cdots $$

Additional details can be found on GitHub or on the project homepage.

Code Sample

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The following are two code samples using syntax highlighting.

Test markdown

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

You can write regular markdown here and Hugo will automatically convert it to a nice webpage. I strongly encourage you to take 5 minutes to learn how to write in markdown - it’ll teach you how to transform regular text into bold/italics/headings/tables/etc.

Here is some bold text

Here is a secondary heading

Here’s a useless table:

Number	Next number	Previous number
Five	Six	Four
Ten	Eleven	Nine
Seven	Eight	Six
Two	Three	One

How about a yummy crepe?

whoami

bradinrohde0@gmail.com (Bradin Rohde) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

root@brohde:~# whoami █

I’m Bradin Rohde, a mechanical engineering student and cybersecurity club president at Utah State University. My goal is to combine my knowledge of engineering and security to help make more stable security systems.

Most of my time right now is dedicated to finishing up my degree, working on ShellFire for the class that I TA for, and designing 3D models in SolidWorks for Shasta Cloud.

When I’m not at work or school, I love to compete in CTFs. Using my knowledge of network analysis, OSINT, cryptography, password cracking, and whatever tools I learn along the way, I’m always fueled by Red Bull to place as high as I can.