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Back in the day I spent 3 years in the Australian Army Reserves. One of the few skills I’ve retained over the intervening 20-odd years is the ability to use swear words like punctuation. As awesome as this might sound, in normal company it’s a bit of a handicap. As a parent, you need to … Read More “Learning the “F Word” in Russian…” »
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?” »
This is a continuation of my first post about how eBay effectively hijacked my account. If you haven’t read it already, please do so, as it will provide background for this post. Continuing on from the previous post, I wondered if I would receive a reply from a supervisor the next day. I didn’t, of … Read More “Shafted by eBay – Part 2” »
Earlier this week I was surprised to get an email from eBay stating that my eBay account was being restricted because it had been linked to another restricted account. Suspecting that this might be some sort of phishing attempt, I logged into eBay, only to discover that the email was in fact legitimate. Reading through … Read More “Shafted by eBay – Part 1” »
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” »
Originally posted on September 9, 2018 by Damien The first card trick I ever learned was a pretty simple one that required no sleight of hand, and worked if you could follow the simple instructions. It used 21 cards, and allowed you to identify a chosen card. The trick is simple, get the volunteer to … Read More “Self Working Card Tricks” »
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…” »
Originally posted on September 1, 2018 by Damien I’ve mentioned the first “real” magic trick that I learned was entitled Lie Detector, and it uses the Si Stebbins stack. I don’t even know if I still have the written instructions I bought back in the mid nineties, or if they’ve been turfed in one clean … Read More “The Lie Detector” »