A guide to creating challenging, educational, and enjoyable vulnerable virtual machines.
Picture this, you've just completed another machine on TryHackMe, Vulnhub, or HackTheBox and you're left thinking to yourself "well I'd quite like to build one of those for myself" but then you realize that you don't have any idea of where to start. Fear no more! In the following post, we'll break down the core ideas behind creating an excellent box.
Topics: Cybersecurity
New to the world of cybersecurity and wondering where to even begin? Ever wonder what it takes to become a professional hacker? Varying levels of IT knowledge and understanding? Everybody must start somewhere, and here is your chance! Reimagine your career as an Information Security Specialist and stop wasting your time with "what ifs." Allow yourself to grow and shine in a field that you are passionate about. Outreach your potential with this fantastic new course!
Topics: Cybersecurity, Information Security, risk
Note from the author: While writing this blog post I ran into a client where I needed to spray against the Office365 portal hosted by Microsoft directly and wrote some code to do so. If you just want to read that bit, skip to the end.
Here’s a quick one for all of the administrators and security practitioners. There’s no shortage of third-party programs designed to do remote desktop management and support. And while sure, many of them are secure, the ones we find in use most often are not. The reason being, they tend to be low or no cost solutions. Now, I’m not one to say that security should always be spendy, but let’s be honest, a lot of the time tools are an investment that management is not always willing to invest in. More often then not when we hit a business that is using VNC as their de facto remote management and support tool, the reason behind it is; “Well, it’s free, and we can shadow and control other machines with it for support calls.”
Topics: Cybersecurity, Network Security, Information Security
It’s Easier than you Think!
Topics: Cybersecurity, Information Security, consumer security, Data Security, Passwords