Anthem ( tryhackme ) Write Up

By Tony J in ctf on

About Quick write-up on the Anthem box [https://tryhackme.com/room/anthem], not going to go into huge detail but should be enough for people to be able to complete it. Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/anthem This is my first write up, any comments or questions are welcome. Thoughs…

Called It

By Tony J on

Thought I would just put this here as a reminder. > conspiracy theory time: 24th march the UK will be put in to an enforced quarantine as a way to combat #coronavirusuk [https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirusuk?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]. In reality this quarantine is enforced…

Creating Presentations with Open Source

By Tony J on

Recently I have been creating some training material for workshops I am running in work and thought I would list out the software I use in case it is useful for anyone. * Screen Capture : https://obsproject.com/ * Downloading of Youtube Video: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html * Coverting Youtube…

State of Cyber Security

By Tony J in security on

Just saw this episode of The Simpsons again and thought it was perfect to show the state of Cyber Security..... Companies spend hundreds of thousands of £'s per year on fancy blinking boxes but do not do the basic hygiene stuff....... Open Doors or RDP/SMB exposed to the…

USB Serial Monitor

By Tony J in usb on

From time to time I need to connect over a USB2Serial adapter to switches/routers. This can be a pain when connecting to multiple devices as I need to check dmeg or /dev each time to see which /dev/ttyUSBx device I just connected, have hit ttyUSB4 before now. Did…

NGINX SSL - Score an A+

By Tony J in ssl on

Having just setup this blog I though I would cover the SSL setup with NGINX. Chrome, Firefox and other browsers are now marking plain text HTTP sites as "insecure" so having SSL enabled on a site is becoming important, tie this together with LetsEncrypt free SSL and it…