Change

During the course of your career, you will come to find that the nature of your work changes over time. This may occur gradually, as new tasks and responsibilities are provided to you. Or this may occur rapidly in the case when you switch roles, gain a promotion, or take

MonitorsThree

MonitorsThree is a now retired, medium rated Hack The Box machine. This box is running a Linux OS and has various challenges within including SQL Injection, web application exploitation, log poisoning, and authentication bypass vulnerabilities. Honestly, I had a lot of fun with this box as it had a number

Underpass

Recently I completed the HTB machine, Underpass. This is fairly easy box but with enough tricky bits to get you scratching your head for a second. It includes some discovery using NMAP and SNMP, a bit of web application project analysis on Github, and finally an interesting privesc using an

Greenhorn

Intro Greenhorn is a retired Hack The Box machine that is rated easy. The challenge includes a public CVE against a web framework, some poor password management, and fun with pixelated pictures. Lets's jump in. Discovery We start this box with an NMAP scan nmap -sT -sC 10.

Angular Course Lessons

Angular Project Recently, I've been learning the latest version of Angular (v18 at the time of this writing) using a course on Udemy called Angular - The Complete Guide (2024 Edition) by Maximilian Schwarzmuller. The course is great and I've gotten up to the first project in

Time for tea

At times when we are looking for something real hard, we can focus and search. Maybe even close our eyes and strain trying to see it. And despite our efforts it seems out of reach, invisible, lost. Its only then when we stop looking, stop trying to see it, stop

DigitalOcean Ghost blog with Terraform

This is a very basic setup for a Ghost blog routed globally through Cloudflare's network that you can run with minimal cost. It will run on the lowest tier droplet that DigitalOcean offers at $6 a month. The Cloudflare cost is roughly the cost of the domain ~$12

Angular Inputs and Outputs

Or how to get your components to talk to each other Directional communication In the following examples I'll be showing a method to get components to communicate between each other when they are in a direct parent - child relationship. We'll be using the @Input and @Output

Angular Basic Bindings

Introduction The following is the beginning of a series I'm planning on creating around what I've been learning in Angular. As a previous AngularJS developer, I thought I'd re-spark my web development joy with diving back into Angular learning what's new.

GitHub Foundations

Back when I was studying for my Terraform Associate certificate, I signed up for Andrew Brown's exampro site, exampro.co, where I had purchased his Cloud Native Devops course bundle. This bundle included his courses for Terraform, GitHub Foundations, Cloud Native Kubernetes Associate, and GitPod. So when I

Terraform Associate Exam 003

At the beginning of June I took the Hashicorp Terraform Associate Exam. This exam was fairly straightforward and generally easy if you have some experience with Terraform. To be honest, prior to this exam, I did not have that much Terraform experience. I had dabbled around with a few Terraform

Creating an S3 backend for Terraform

In the beginning, the backend was local. And it was good. But then lo, the project needed to be portable and used by others. And so, the developer said let their be S3. And the backend was ported to a remote state on an S3 bucket. And it was good.