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A collection of 5 posts

Hacking Code Bases: A primer

As a security-focused developer, I often get questions from colleagues and readers of this very blog on how to review code and spot vulnerabilities. Many believe this is an incredibly challenging task to complete and they are quite wrong, while there are some challenging moments to get it to exploitability,

Penetration Test Report Tips

Penetration Test Report Tips

Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of penetration test reports. It’s given me lots more insight on forming a better report, my initial reports were subpar at-best now that I’ve done dozens of them. I thought I’d make this post and share some tricks I’ve

How I got started pentesting

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

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

Owned by git hooks

While enumerating a new hackthebox machine, I was stuck at the www-data user and no clear path to go. I knew I could dump the database, look at redis, and likely would find credentials to elevate — but I wanted to do some unique trickery! The sudo -l command showed me