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Before anyone points out the post that Quinzy made a couple of years ago saying how passwords aren’t secure, I’d like to say that I agree with him, and the title of this blog post shouldn’t be taken to mean I think otherwise. But, like it or not, passwords are probably here to stay for … Read More “Passwords for the Win!” »
It’s been nearly two years since I started working in the cybersecurity field, the culmination of two and a half years of study and learning before that. Before getting a job in cybersecurity I’d spend hours working through online training, often late into the night. Once I started work, though, I eased off, finding that … Read More “Well, this SIEMs Like a Fun Idea…” »
Let me preface this post by stating that I am nowhere near an expert when it comes to ethical hacking, penetration testing, or cyber-security in general. This post is more of an overview of how I got to where I am now, and what I wish I’d known along the way. Rather than a definitive … Read More “So, You Want to be a Hacker…” »
Damien re-posted one of his earlier blog posts yesterday, talking about creating a secure password. I’m here to tell you that your password is not secure. Yes, you can take steps to make it hard to compromise a password, but ultimately there’s always chance it will be compromised as technology improves. Also, it only takes … Read More “Your Password is not Secure…” »
Originally posted on October 3, 2018 by Damien Having worked in IT for many years, I thought I had a good handle on how to create a secure password. My passwords didn’t use dictionary words, I used mixed case, numbers and symbols. Of course, they were damn difficult to remember, so I ended up using … Read More “Is your password really secure?” »
Today marks day 8 of TryHackMe’s Advent of Cyber challenge. So far the challenges have covered topics from using cookies to bypass authentication, directory enumeration, brute forcing accounts, SQL injection and cross site scripting. They’ve also covered utilities such as BurpSuite, gobuster, nmap and sqlmap. I’ve found taking part in the challenge to be extremely … Read More “Advent of Cyber Update” »
This post is about my attempt to complete a CTF room on TryHackMe. I won’t post any blatant spoilers about what I did, but if you haven’t done EasyCTF yet, you might want to skip this post… So, today after completing the day’s Advent of Cyber task on TryHackMe I decided to continue on with … Read More “Well, I’ll be Damned…” »
This post could quite easily be titled “How I Finally got off my Arse”, since I’ve been trying to find the motivation to learn about penetration testing (a.k.a. PenTesting). I was prodded into action courtesy of a post on social media somewhere about TryHackMe’s Advent of Cyber event. It seemed like the perfect thing for … Read More “Advent of Cyber” »