Michael Meade

Author: Michael Meade

  • Exposing the Scammers Part two.

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    In my last post, we exposed a scammer who used a famous actress’s identity to scam people. In this post, I will expose a new scammer who went by the name ‘Mary J.’ This time, she found me on the encrypted app Signal. She claimed to have lived in Buffalo, NY, for the past seven…

  • Stacking Silver Terminology

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    This is a table of terminology related to the stacking of silver. These terms could be found on “/r/silverbugs” or “/r/pmsforsale“. This is a living document that will be updated when I learn or see other terms or information that can be added to the page. Word Definition LCS Local Coin Store Junk Silver Coins…

  • PowerShell Script to make queries.

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    At work sometimes we have to create nested queries with a handful of different IPs. I am not going to name the product for Operational Security reasons. But anyways I was tired of having to manually add all the IPs into a nested format like: ( ( addr.dst in ‘1.1.1.1’ ) or ( addr.dst in…

  • UTCFT 2025 Challenge: March 14th

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    Big thanks to Texas University ISSS for creating and moderating the game and the Discord chat. It was tons of fun and I learned a few new skills. Trapped in Plain Sight 1 I first SSH into the machine. The name of the challenge was “Trapped in plain Sight” so I figured the flag it…

  • Snyk CTF Challenge: Feb 28th 2025.

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    String Me Along This was the first reverse engineering challenge. It was labeled easy. The first thing I did was use the strings command to view all the strings in the binary. The string command will print all the printable characters that are in the file. Next I tired to enter, “unlock_me_123” after running the…

  • My First Pour of Many.

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    The image above shows some of the Silver bars that I melted. There were two bars and one Silver coin in the crucible. The crucible is a graphite based object where we melt the silver. The bars were in a plastic covering which I had to cut. This is the result of the first pour…

  • My Journey in Silver casting…

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    I have been stacking silver for about two years. I’ve wanted to make my own rounds for a while. When I first started stacking silver, it was about $20 an ounce. Now, it’s almost $30 an ounce. I am really excited to try this new hobby out. It will allow me to mess with CAD-like…

  • Comment Column on Wireshark.

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    In this tutorial, I will explain how to add a new column to Wireshark that displays comments. I have found this to be helpful at work when looking at a packet capture that has a lot of IPs, and I need to determine information about them in a quick manner. The first step is to…

  • Updates: SnackHack2…

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    The newly updated SnackHack2 comes with a Rakefile, which makes it a breeze to push, build, and install the gem. The Rakefile also includes tasks that can run code to ensure no bugs are introduced or to ensure nothing is broken. The documentation for the gem can be found here. RakeFile The command bellow will…

  • Exposing Scammers

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    If you’ve ever been in a large group on Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, or any other messaging app, you have probably received unsolicited private messages—especially if the group you’re in is crypto-related. The number one rule when in a crypto group is not to click unfamiliar links or interact when random strangers private message you. They…