Hack The Box: Starting Point (Meow) - Beating Your First Box!

Hack The Box Starting Point - Meow Walkthrough Welcome to the first post in my Hack The Box Starting Point series! This series will cover the beginner-friendly machines in Hack The Box’s Starting Point track, designed to help newcomers learn the basics of penetration testing. Today, we’re tackling Meow, a straightforward machine that introduces key concepts like VPN connections, port scanning, and basic service enumeration. This walkthrough includes a guide to setting up your hacking environment to finding your first ever flag!...

March 10, 2025

Analysing a Malware Sample on ANY.RUN

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to analyse a malware sample on ANY.RUN. By following these steps, users can navigate the platform, search for existing malware samples, view connections and network traffic, collect IOCs, and gather more information about the threat. Navigate to ANY.RUN Go to ANY.RUN. Public Tasks Click “Public tasks” to view the public directory and submissions from the community. Filter by Tag, Hash, or IOCs Click here to filter by tag, hash, or other IOCs....

February 21, 2025

Kusto Detective Agency - Season 1 Walkthrough

Kusto Detective Agency Walkthrough of answers for Kusto Detective Agency Season 1 Welcome to the Kusto Detective Agency! This blog post provides a walkthrough for the Season 1 challenges, with the Kusto query answers hidden in collapsible sections so you can try to solve the challenges yourself first. Hints: Remember if you get stuck to refer to the hints in this answer sheet and in Kusto Detective Agency before checking the answers!...

January 16, 2025

Building a Blog with Azure and Hugo

Building a blog with Hugo and Azure I recently set up this blog using Hugo and Azure Static Web Apps, and I wanted to share the process. This approach provides a fast, secure, and cost-effective (free!) way to run a technical blog. Here’s how I did it from scratch. Why This Stack? Hugo: Really fast static site generator with great Markdown support and documentation on how to integrate with Azure Statis Web Apps PaperMod theme: Clean design with dark mode and code highlighting etc Azure Static Web Apps: Free tier available, easy deployment, and global CDN Prerequisites Git Azure account Step 1: Install Hugo First, let’s get Hugo installed....

November 3, 2024