Articles

I've written some nonsense over the years. Riffle through the haystack and see if there's anything you like.

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HackTheBox - Topology

Published: 3rd July 2023
Last updated: 21st February 2024

A walkthrough of the HackTheBox machine, Topology. Exploiting injection into a PHP wrapper around LaTeX.

Why I'm Publishing My Access Logs

Published: 3rd August 2023
Last updated: 6th August 2023

Why would you bother publishing your Apache access logs?

How do you interpret the TCP/IP model?

Published: 12th August 2023
Last updated: 12th August 2023

A Real-time dirbuster security list

Published: 16th August 2023
Last updated: 16th August 2023

ChatGPT as a Sniffing Web Application Firewall

Published: 4th September 2023
Last updated: 4th September 2023

I am not the first person to think of using ChatGPT to analyse incoming requests for signs of delicious maliciousness, but that won't stop me having a crack and implementing into my Server Dashboard.

Hack The Box - Photon Lockdown Challenge

Published: 21st February 2024
Last updated: 21st February 2024

It's been a while since I played with Hack The Box, but rather than go through boxes, I took a swing at a few challenges starting with Photon Lockdown (which took about 10 minutes to solve.)

Hack The Box - RedMiner

Published: 21st February 2024
Last updated: 21st February 2024

Another very straightforward read of a challenge on HTB.