Securing your online presence
WinDBG is a very useful tool for analysing crash dumps and memory dumps. It is part of the Windows SDK. You can grab it here: Windows 10 SDK Download Don’t worry if you’re doing this on a Windows 7/8 device, the WinDBG application will work on these OSes. When you run …
Just a quick one on configuring Windows 7/8/10 & Servers for a full memory dump so you get the most information possible. If you are in the Startup and Recovery options and do not see the option for ‘Complete Memory Dump’ (See below image), you need to make a registry …
The OSCP is a course and exam with Offensive Security that is widely recognised as a gruelling test of your abilities as a pentester. The objectives are to hack into and gain system access on five lab machines throughout 24hours, and then to submit a written report the next day. …
Today I completed my Azure Security Engineer Associate exam and I just wanted to write a quick review of how I found it and the learning material I used. Learning Material I will outline the material that I used, or think should be used, in a sort of chronological order. …
I completed and passed Azure Fundamentals AZ900 tonight and wanted to quickly write up the experience of what it was like. Coming into Azure, I didn’t have much background knowledge of Microsoft Azure so it was a really useful certification to get. I used the learning materials at Microsoft Learn, and a training …
For those that don’t know, pentesterlabs.com is a website that takes you through the methods and tools used for primarily web hacking. The Essentials badge introduces many of the popular methodologies used when web hacking. The site itself describes the badge as “ This badge aims at covering the most common …
A recent challenge on HackTheBox had me banging my head off a wall for a full weekend. Without going into too much detail, or which challenge it was, I figured out that there was a third party service that ran an scheduled task every minute. I could use this job to run …
For those that don’t know, HackTheBox is a website which hosts around 20 live ‘boxes’ (read servers) for cyber security enthusiasts to practise their hacking skills. Points are awarded based on the difficulty of the box and the level of access one secures. I have been practising using this site for around six …