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TryHackMe Write-up - ColddBox: Easy

10 minute read

It’s been a while since I last posted. I’ve been toiling away at TryHackMe, a site I signed up for in December to whet my cybersecurity appetite. I forked ou...

Grepping the ‘history’ command

2 minute read

I was updating my previous blog post when I remembered that I wanted to include a command that I ran but couldn’t remember. So I looked up how to grep the hi...

Bash shell scripting introduction

10 minute read

Shells come in many varieties, the two that I am most familiar with are bash and zsh. I use zsh and in fact, since 2019, macOS has been shipping with zsh as ...

Command line tools - netcat

9 minute read

There are many tools that are at the disposal of a penetration tester, one well known tool, commonly referred to as the hacker’s Swiss army knife, is netcat.

Penetration Testing - Scoping an Engagement

6 minute read

As part of planning an engagement, scoping needs to be taken into consideration. Scoping ensures that a mutual understanding is made between the penetration ...