2023 review - Rise of the threats
Nobody is safe, not even when your computer is plugged off the socket.
APT
Active-Directory
OSEP PEN-300 review - Evasion and Breaching Techniques
You got a reverse shell, but I got a meterpreter shell with antivirus enabled. We are not the same.
Deserialization
Offensive-security
OSEP PEN-300 review - Evasion and Breaching Techniques
You got a reverse shell, but I got a meterpreter shell with antivirus enabled. We are not the same.
Owasp-Top10
Web-Security
Windows
OSEP PEN-300 review - Evasion and Breaching Techniques
You got a reverse shell, but I got a meterpreter shell with antivirus enabled. We are not the same.
active-directory
CRTP review - My introductory cert to Active Directory
My review on my CRTP, great course overall for grasping introductory concepts to Active Directory & Powershell
ai
Stolen Consciences
They fired the lawyers and the caretakers before the first missile flew; Minab is what the remaining machine produced.
Targeting Systems and Stolen Thoughts
An AI hallucination nearly started a war this year. The same black box launders stolen science. Safety was never the product.
censorship
Behind the Safety Curtain
When the UK beds down with US culture warriors, censorship isn’t a bug, it’s the plan.
crypto
How Slavery Settles · Part III of III · Protected
The Following Tron Crypto Addresses
Britain sanctioned Xinbi with two wallets that were already dead. The money stopped a day before the announcement, when, by an analytics firm's account, a US agency went to Tether. The first new wallet opened 26 minutes later. This part asks who kept the gate open.
How Slavery Settles · Part II of III · Laundered
Arrived
A Telegram marketplace that moved billions in Tether, a scam wallet the FBI redacted and a deposit address Arkham labels Binance at the end of the trail. This is where the money went, step by step, on a public ledger.
How Slavery Settles · Part I of III · Recruited
A Waiter Position in Thailand
A Facebook ad for a waiter, a Telegram channel with 6,564 members and a frozen wallet the FBI ties to Xinbi. This is who the scam compounds recruit, and where the paper trail stops.
cyber-security
2023 review - Rise of the threats
Nobody is safe, not even when your computer is plugged off the socket.
disinformation
How States Sell a Story · Part III of III · Flooded
Garbage Disposal
One former troll's quota was 135 comments a day. One study found 1% of users got 70% of the exposure. It doesn't have to change your mind. It only has to fill it.
How States Sell a Story · Part II of III · Edited
Remove the Material
The invaders were Chinese until the edit. The Pentagon's contract says "remove the material". A jacket lost two flags, then got them back.
How States Sell a Story · Part I of III · Borrowed
Present: Mr. Louis Shon
He died in 2006. In 2007 the UN listed him as attending. Four countries' names, seven operations, almost nobody charged.
Cry Deepfake
When fakes are everywhere, the real prize isn't fooling you. It's that anyone caught on camera can now say "it's fake" and walk away.
Understanding 20 years of Propaganda
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. - George Orwell
elasticsearch
zip -j trust_me_bro.jar - How One Command Cracks Elasticsearch Enterprise
I got bored one day and ended up bypassing Elasticsearch's entire Enterprise licensing with a single file swap.
elearnsecurity
eWPTXv2 review - Black box web pentesting
My review on eWPTXv2, fantastic black box web pentesting that makes you think beyond!
eCPPTv2 review - My Journey
My review on eCPPTv2, great exam environment for exposure to be a pentester
exam
OSEP PEN-300 review - Evasion and Breaching Techniques
You got a reverse shell, but I got a meterpreter shell with antivirus enabled. We are not the same.
CRTP review - My introductory cert to Active Directory
My review on my CRTP, great course overall for grasping introductory concepts to Active Directory & Powershell
eWPTXv2 review - Black box web pentesting
My review on eWPTXv2, fantastic black box web pentesting that makes you think beyond!
eCPPTv2 review - My Journey
My review on eCPPTv2, great exam environment for exposure to be a pentester
far-right
How Movements Borrow a God · Part III of III · Conscripted
The Full Armor of God
A bishop who thanked a court, a patriarch who sent priests to the draft offices and a Pentagon that rewrote its chaplains.
How Movements Borrow a God · Part II of III · Franchised
An Appeal to Heaven
A 1775 flag, a $59.99 Bible and a church's TV network: where nobody runs the faith, nobody can take it back.
How Movements Borrow a God · Part I of III · Emptied
Not to Defend the Articles of Faith
Orbán kept the cross and gave up the faith. Across Western Europe, it is easiest to take where the pews are emptiest.
history
Justice, Selectively
How American racial jurisprudence shaped Nazi law, how victor's justice compromised Nuremberg, and why selective accountability still haunts international law today.
investigation
How Slavery Settles · Part II of III · Laundered
Arrived
A Telegram marketplace that moved billions in Tether, a scam wallet the FBI redacted and a deposit address Arkham labels Binance at the end of the trail. This is where the money went, step by step, on a public ledger.
malware
offensive-security
pentesting
OSEP PEN-300 review - Evasion and Breaching Techniques
You got a reverse shell, but I got a meterpreter shell with antivirus enabled. We are not the same.
CRTP review - My introductory cert to Active Directory
My review on my CRTP, great course overall for grasping introductory concepts to Active Directory & Powershell
eWPTXv2 review - Black box web pentesting
My review on eWPTXv2, fantastic black box web pentesting that makes you think beyond!
eCPPTv2 review - My Journey
My review on eCPPTv2, great exam environment for exposure to be a pentester
politics
How Slavery Settles · Part III of III · Protected
The Following Tron Crypto Addresses
Britain sanctioned Xinbi with two wallets that were already dead. The money stopped a day before the announcement, when, by an analytics firm's account, a US agency went to Tether. The first new wallet opened 26 minutes later. This part asks who kept the gate open.
How Slavery Settles · Part I of III · Recruited
A Waiter Position in Thailand
A Facebook ad for a waiter, a Telegram channel with 6,564 members and a frozen wallet the FBI ties to Xinbi. This is who the scam compounds recruit, and where the paper trail stops.
How Movements Borrow a God · Part III of III · Conscripted
The Full Armor of God
A bishop who thanked a court, a patriarch who sent priests to the draft offices and a Pentagon that rewrote its chaplains.
How Movements Borrow a God · Part II of III · Franchised
An Appeal to Heaven
A 1775 flag, a $59.99 Bible and a church's TV network: where nobody runs the faith, nobody can take it back.
How Movements Borrow a God · Part I of III · Emptied
Not to Defend the Articles of Faith
Orbán kept the cross and gave up the faith. Across Western Europe, it is easiest to take where the pews are emptiest.
How States Sell a Story · Part III of III · Flooded
Garbage Disposal
One former troll's quota was 135 comments a day. One study found 1% of users got 70% of the exposure. It doesn't have to change your mind. It only has to fill it.
How States Sell a Story · Part II of III · Edited
Remove the Material
The invaders were Chinese until the edit. The Pentagon's contract says "remove the material". A jacket lost two flags, then got them back.
How States Sell a Story · Part I of III · Borrowed
Present: Mr. Louis Shon
He died in 2006. In 2007 the UN listed him as attending. Four countries' names, seven operations, almost nobody charged.
Stolen Consciences
They fired the lawyers and the caretakers before the first missile flew; Minab is what the remaining machine produced.
Targeting Systems and Stolen Thoughts
An AI hallucination nearly started a war this year. The same black box launders stolen science. Safety was never the product.
Cry Deepfake
When fakes are everywhere, the real prize isn't fooling you. It's that anyone caught on camera can now say "it's fake" and walk away.
Justice, Selectively
How American racial jurisprudence shaped Nazi law, how victor's justice compromised Nuremberg, and why selective accountability still haunts international law today.
propaganda
How States Sell a Story · Part III of III · Flooded
Garbage Disposal
One former troll's quota was 135 comments a day. One study found 1% of users got 70% of the exposure. It doesn't have to change your mind. It only has to fill it.
How States Sell a Story · Part II of III · Edited
Remove the Material
The invaders were Chinese until the edit. The Pentagon's contract says "remove the material". A jacket lost two flags, then got them back.
How States Sell a Story · Part I of III · Borrowed
Present: Mr. Louis Shon
He died in 2006. In 2007 the UN listed him as attending. Four countries' names, seven operations, almost nobody charged.
Cry Deepfake
When fakes are everywhere, the real prize isn't fooling you. It's that anyone caught on camera can now say "it's fake" and walk away.
Understanding 20 years of Propaganda
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. - George Orwell
qradar
999,999,999 EPS - The Licence IBM Never Sold
The hard part wasn't breaking QRadar's licence crypto. The hard part has been getting IBM to reply to the report.
red-team
CRTP review - My introductory cert to Active Directory
My review on my CRTP, great course overall for grasping introductory concepts to Active Directory & Powershell
religion
How Movements Borrow a God · Part III of III · Conscripted
The Full Armor of God
A bishop who thanked a court, a patriarch who sent priests to the draft offices and a Pentagon that rewrote its chaplains.
How Movements Borrow a God · Part II of III · Franchised
An Appeal to Heaven
A 1775 flag, a $59.99 Bible and a church's TV network: where nobody runs the faith, nobody can take it back.
How Movements Borrow a God · Part I of III · Emptied
Not to Defend the Articles of Faith
Orbán kept the cross and gave up the faith. Across Western Europe, it is easiest to take where the pews are emptiest.
reverse-engineering
999,999,999 EPS - The Licence IBM Never Sold
The hard part wasn't breaking QRadar's licence crypto. The hard part has been getting IBM to reply to the report.
zip -j trust_me_bro.jar - How One Command Cracks Elasticsearch Enterprise
I got bored one day and ended up bypassing Elasticsearch's entire Enterprise licensing with a single file swap.
review
2023 review - Rise of the threats
Nobody is safe, not even when your computer is plugged off the socket.
OSEP PEN-300 review - Evasion and Breaching Techniques
You got a reverse shell, but I got a meterpreter shell with antivirus enabled. We are not the same.
CRTP review - My introductory cert to Active Directory
My review on my CRTP, great course overall for grasping introductory concepts to Active Directory & Powershell
eWPTXv2 review - Black box web pentesting
My review on eWPTXv2, fantastic black box web pentesting that makes you think beyond!
eCPPTv2 review - My Journey
My review on eCPPTv2, great exam environment for exposure to be a pentester
russia
Understanding 20 years of Propaganda
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. - George Orwell
threats
2023 review - Rise of the threats
Nobody is safe, not even when your computer is plugged off the socket.
trafficking
How Slavery Settles · Part III of III · Protected
The Following Tron Crypto Addresses
Britain sanctioned Xinbi with two wallets that were already dead. The money stopped a day before the announcement, when, by an analytics firm's account, a US agency went to Tether. The first new wallet opened 26 minutes later. This part asks who kept the gate open.
How Slavery Settles · Part II of III · Laundered
Arrived
A Telegram marketplace that moved billions in Tether, a scam wallet the FBI redacted and a deposit address Arkham labels Binance at the end of the trail. This is where the money went, step by step, on a public ledger.
How Slavery Settles · Part I of III · Recruited
A Waiter Position in Thailand
A Facebook ad for a waiter, a Telegram channel with 6,564 members and a frozen wallet the FBI ties to Xinbi. This is who the scam compounds recruit, and where the paper trail stops.
warfare
Stolen Consciences
They fired the lawyers and the caretakers before the first missile flew; Minab is what the remaining machine produced.
Targeting Systems and Stolen Thoughts
An AI hallucination nearly started a war this year. The same black box launders stolen science. Safety was never the product.
windows
CRTP review - My introductory cert to Active Directory
My review on my CRTP, great course overall for grasping introductory concepts to Active Directory & Powershell