Commentaries
Occasionally I have thoughts to share about technology, security, hacking, or some combination thereof.
2022 Aug 15
| Notes from HOPE and DEF CON
2022 Nov 27
| Trying (and failing) to deploy a smart contract using an iPad Pro
Tales
Walk-throughs of some of the online CTFs I’ve done. These are all in narrative form so you can see my entire process — including some dead ends!
2020 Jul 27
| Bandit
2021 Oct 10
| Pickle Rick
2021 Nov 04
| Basic pentesting
2021 Dec 07
| Ice
2021 Dec 08
| Blaster
2021 Dec 14
| Overpass 2: Hacked
2021 Dec 30
| Attacktive Directory
2022 Jan 02
| Retro
2022 Jan 30
| Tools‘R’us
2022 Feb 01
| Inclusion
2022 Feb 02
| Jurassic Park
2022 Apr 03
| Net sec challenge
2023 Apr 27
| Union
Spells
A variety of notes about hacking, written for my own reference. Some notes date to the beginning of my cybersecurity journey and are very basic, while others come from later in my career and are more advanced. May you find something useful here.
Click on the tag for a list of notes related to that topic.
Spells by attack cycle stage
- AttackCycle/Reconnaissance
- AttackCycle/Exploitation
- AttackCycle/AntiForensics
- AttackCycle/PrivEsc
- AttackCycle/LateralMovement
- AttackCycle/CommandAndControl
- AttackCycle/Exfiltration
Spells for specific occassions
Spells dealing with specific protocols, operating systems, applications, etc.
- Application
- Application/ADB
- Application/Aircrack
- Application/arp
- Application/awk
- Application/base64
- Application/basenc
- Application/BurpSuite
- Application/cat
- Application/Certify
- Application/CertUtil
- Application/cewl
- Application/cmd
- Application/cmdkey
- Application/crackmapexec
- Application/CUPP
- Application/curl
- Application/DayOne
- Application/dd
- Application/dig
- Application/dir
- Application/dpkg-query
- Application/driverquery
- Application/enum4linux
- Application/Evil-WinRM
- Application/Excel
- Application/ExifTool
- Application/ffmpeg
- Application/find
- Application/findstr
- Application/finger
- Application/Firefox
- Application/ftp
- Application/fuff
- Application/gdb
- Application/getcap
- Application/Git
- Application/gobuster
- Application/GoodLock
- Application/GPG
- Application/grep
- Application/Hashcat
- Application/hostname
- Application/Hydra
- Application/icacls
- Application/ifconfig
- Application/iftop
- Application/ike-scan
- Application/Impacket
- Application/ipconfig
- Application/JohnTheRipper
- Application/jq
- Application/JumpDesktop
- Application/KeePassXC
- Application/Kerbrute
- Application/LAME
- Application/ldd
- Application/less
- Application/libVirt
- Application/ls
- Application/lslpp
- Application/man
- Application/Metasploit
- Application/MicrosoftRemoteDesktop
- Application/Mimikatz
- Application/more
- Application/MSSQL
- Application/MySQL
- Application/nano
- Application/nbtscan
- Application/net
- Application/netcat
- Application/netsh
- Application/netstat
- Application/Nikto
- Application/Nmap
- Application/NodeJS
- Application/nslookup
- Application/Obsidian
- Application/OneDrive
- Application/OpenSSL
- Application/Oracle
- Application/oscanner
- Application/oslevel
- Application/OWASPZAP
- Application/ping
- Application/PostgreSQL
- Application/PowerShell
- Application/ProcMon
- Application/proxychains
- Application/ps
- Application/PsExec
- Application/psk-crack
- Application/query
- Application/readlink
- Application/reg
- Application/rlwrap
- Application/RogueWinRM
- Application/rpm
- Application/Rubeus
- Application/RunAs
- Application/SamsungDeX
- Application/SDelete
- Application/secedit
- Application/sed
- Application/select
- Application/Shortcuts
- Application/shutdown
- Application/sidguess
- Application/sleep
- Application/smbclient
- Application/smbget
- Application/smbmap
- Application/socat
- Application/SQLMap
- Application/ss
- Application/SSH
- Application/sudo
- Application/systemctl
- Application/systeminfo
- Application/takeown
- Application/tar
- Application/tcpdump
- Application/tee
- Application/telnet
- Application/TheHarvester
- Application/timeout
- Application/tmux
- Application/tnscmd10g
- Application/traceroute
- Application/tracert
- Application/type
- Application/unbuffer
- Application/ViM
- Application/VirtualBox
- Application/wfuzz
- Application/wget
- Application/whoami
- Application/WindowsExploitSuggester
- Application/windump
- Application/WinPEAS
- Application/winrs
- Application/Wireshark
- Application/wmic
- Application/Word
- Application/XFreeRDP
- Application/Xterm
- Application/xxd
- Application/youtube-dl
- Cloud
- Cloud/AWS
- Cryptography
- FileFormat
- Hardware
- Language
- OS
- OS/AIX
- OS/Android
- OS/CiscoIOS
- OS/iOS
- OS/Linux
- OS/macOS
- OS/Windows
- OS/Windows/ActiveDirectory
- OS/Windows/AMSI
- OS/Windows/Defender
- OS/Windows/Drivers
- OS/Windows/EventLog
- OS/Windows/Firewall
- OS/Windows/IIS
- OS/Windows/LSASS
- OS/Windows/Permissions
- OS/Windows/Registry
- OS/Windows/SAM
- OS/Windows/Server
- OS/Windows/Services
- OS/Windows/Tasks
- OS/Windows/UAC
- OS/Windows/UserInit
- OS/Windows/WinLogin
- OS/Windows/WMI
- OS/Windows/WSH
- Protocol
- Protocol/ARP
- Protocol/DCERPC
- Protocol/DNS
- Protocol/DRSUAPI
- Protocol/FTP
- Protocol/FTPS
- Protocol/Gemini
- Protocol/HTTP
- Protocol/ICMP
- Protocol/IMAP
- Protocol/IPSec
- Protocol/IPv4
- Protocol/IPv6
- Protocol/Kerberos
- Protocol/NetBIOS
- Protocol/NFS
- Protocol/POP3
- Protocol/RCP
- Protocol/RDP
- Protocol/SIP
- Protocol/SMB
- Protocol/SMTP
- Protocol/SOCKS
- Protocol/TCP
- Protocol/Telnet
- Protocol/TLS
- Protocol/UDP
- Protocol/WiFi
- Protocol/WinRM
- Protocol/X11
- Standard
- WebApplication