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Thoughts on security, development, and technology.

4 min

Packed Light | TryHackMe Room Writeup

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of Packed Light, a TryHackMe network forensics challenge about recovering XOR-encrypted keystrokes from HTTP cookies.

  • TryHackMe
  • Network Forensics
  • Wireshark
  • PCAP
5 min

Complimentary | TryHackMe Room Writeup

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of Complimentary, an AWS cloud security challenge involving Cognito guest credentials and an over-permissive DynamoDB role.

  • TryHackMe
  • AWS
  • Cloud Security
  • Amazon Cognito
4 min

Room 404 | TryHackMe Room Writeup

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of Room 404, a TryHackMe web challenge about directory enumeration and an exposed Git repository.

  • TryHackMe
  • Web Security
  • Git
  • Enumeration
4 min

How I Passed CompTIA Security+ SY0-701

How I prepared for and passed the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam, including the resources I used, difficult topics, and advice for future candidates.

  • CompTIA
  • Security+
  • Certification
  • Exam Preparation
Case study · 4 min

WannaCry Malware Analysis

Static and dynamic analysis of a WannaCry sample in an isolated Windows environment, with correlated process, file, registry, and network evidence.

  • ANY.RUN
  • Binary Ninja
  • ProcMon
  • Process Explorer