Category: hacking
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HTB Redeemer
First Step After connecting to the VPN, I ran the handy Nmap. At first I did not get any results when scanning the first thousand ports. But then I realized there are 65,535 ports in TCP! I used the following NMAP command to find a open port. The command above gave the following information. The…
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Spooky CTF 2026
This CTF went from Nov 6-7. I started a day late but came in 477th out of 748. Web J*b Application This was worth 50 points. They gave us a Python script that uses Flask. After looking at the code, I noticed the following line. The code above works like this. If the string A[[AI-REVIEW:…
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Huntress CTF 2026
The Skinny on This CTF! When I agree to be part of my team, I did not realize that you were supposed to be using AI. Usually during CTF, using AI is considered cheating and frown upon. It took me a week to realize that we were supposed to use AI. I was using ChatGPT…
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How to hide Apache2 Server Information.
Removing the server header can help hide information about your web server. This information could be used to see if your web server is running a vulnerable version. This is called banner grabbing. A hacker will attempt to get the version of a service. It won’t prevent being exploited but it could make it harder…
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Top Tips On Making Your Home Network Secure
Keeping your network secure does not only mean you only have to protect your own computers but also possibility computers owned by the company you work for. These are some easy steps that can be made to help secure your network and keep it secured. Changing Default Passwords The first thing you do when you…
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How To Stay Safe Financially
Transfering money to a friend or someone has never been this easy. But when it becomes easy it also means that you will need have extra methods in place to protect your data any your hard earned money. The first thing you should do after reading this article is to add 2 factor authentication to…
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Notes
This is where I will write notes about different topics. Note that information included in this “cheatsheet” could have change after it was added to the cheatsheet. I will do my best to keep it updated. Tools Apache2 Modules The command does all it work. It will add it to what its needs to work.…
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CTF-Pal
Origin Story During the weekend I sometimes participate in CTFs as a way to learn new skills and keep my skills sharp. During those CTF’s I usually start out the challenge with running strings commands, the file command, open it with Ghrida, etc. I thought it would be cool to make a program that can…
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0xfun CTF 2026
This CTF was very fun, I worked on it on a Friday night. I did not realize that it ended on Saturday. I thought it was going to end Sunday. The challenges were fun and challenging, I thought I had more time to work on them. Shell This challenge was worth 50 points. The following…
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NexHunt CTF 2025
If you want to read the write up from one of my other writeups from a CTF please see this link. Blank Challenge The challenge category is reverse and is worth 100 points. The snippet below shows information about the file. I used the file command to get this information. It shows that the file…
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HeroCTF v7 2025
Please check out my other write up for a CTF named GlacierCTF. Tomcat Challenge The image above shows the file tree of the files that was given to us for this challenge. When visiting the site for this challenge, the page showed the default page for TomCat . I clicked one of the buttons to…
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Taking a Look at Ruby Gems
Origin Story. I decided to take some of my projects and publish the gems on Rubygems with my awesome username of Banksy. For those who do not know, gems are like Python’s packages. They make it easy to run code. To access the gem, simply add ‘require “gem_name” ‘ to the top of the file,…
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GlacierCTF 2025 Challenge
Please check out my other posted related to CTF, the name of the article is UTCFT 2025 CTF Challenge Write-Up. The GlacierCTF was hosted by ISEC Institute @ TU Graz aka LosFuzzys. They did a great job hosting this CTF, there was no issues with the CTF. None of the challenges went down during the…
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A guide in achieving perfect Email security.
Please check out my other blog post named “A guide on being safe on your phone.“ Nowadays, everyone has at least one email. Email security is really important; it is the gate to all your other accounts. Most sites require you to enter an email to sign up for the site. This makes emails a…