How I got started pentesting
It all started when I was 8. I was writing some basic pages to host on my fathers home server to show off to my classmates who could access the internet. My love for the internet evolved very quickly, and when I was 11 I was hit by my first hacker. Someone managed
Certifications: My personal goals and struggles
Being an adult with no post-secondary education can be challenging when it comes to getting jobs. I'm fortunate in my current job that my boss is also self-taught and gives everyone an equal and fair chance, however, when in front of my peers who have post-secondary education I'm treated as if I don't
Weekly Update 5: It’s been a long week!
It’s been an incredibly long week, from long car rides to ongoing scares, it’s not been the funnest week! Not much has been done this week, aside driving about 250km in total, and lacking sleep. On the work front, we’ve began to rotate all important credentials, and start enforcing new security policies. I developed
Weekly Update 4: The road to OSCP
I love to learn, break, and fix -- usually not in that order. After trying different avenues of security (red team / blue team), I find the most joy being on the red team. The rush of breaking into things, maintaining presence, and snooping outweighs the rest. As I'm learning more, I'm documenting the
HTB: Writeup Write-up
I'm an avid doer of hackthebox machines, and writeup seems like a great fit to be
HTB: Networked write-up
I was browsing Hack The Box today, and decided to tackle a new box, the box I saw was Networked, it's made by Guly and looks like a fairly easy box, so let's get exploiting! The machine lives on 10.10.10.146, a quick nmap scan shows port 22 and 80 are open, so we know
On IPs and Reverse DNS records
With my current setup, I have more IP addresses than I need, and despite most services having two IPv4 addresses, with proper RDNS records, I still have about 100 IPs with no usage. My initial thought was to rent them out to people who need them, but the question is how! Even if I
Weekly Update 3: New servers means more fun!
As the week started, I decided it was time to retire a few old servers, and sell them on Kijiji. After 24 hours of posting on Kijiji, I was able to sell and retire two older servers. As you know, when one server retires, another must take its place -- so let me introduce
IPAM: Network and rack oversight made easy.
As you may be able to tell I'm a big fan of IPAM. My initial impression was this software is fantastic and free, it's fully lived up to my expectations. I've got a fair amount of networking going on in my servers, linking them together then back to home for easy access. The ability