CTF Guide: Skynet

Overview# This Terminator-themed CTF is one of TryHackMe’s Offensive Pentesting rooms, with a ranking of “Easy”. Exploiting Samba and file inclusion vulnerabilities are some of the highlights here. Direct answers will be hidden in this guide, but before continuing, I recommend that you try hacking this machine without...

How To: Save $1,000+ on your AWS Bill

The Cost of the Cloud# One of my recent projects was to migrate some testing servers from on-premises to Amazon EC2. There were valid reasons for doing so, with the most pressing being to offload the testing workload to the cloud. Testing isn’t run 24/7, so those machines don’t need to be online all the time taking up...

TryHackMe - Welcome to Cybersecurity

What is TryHackMe?# TryHackMe (or THM for short) is a mostly free (will come back to this shortly), online platform designed for learning cybersecurity, with a focus on hands-on exercises. It has pre-built learning pathways depending on your security knowledge and what path you’d like to explore in cybersecurity. Each...

Fortnite 2D

A top-down, battle royale shooter with multiplayer and AI survival modes. This app works on the web and on mobile platforms.