Ansible: Getting Started

Introduction Part of my work is translating academic research into tangible demonstrators and proof of concepts. I’ve been working on finding different ways to automate the creation, maintenance and access to these demonstrators. I’ve tested scripting via python however ansible came to be the best solution for provisioning infrastructure and vir... Read more 24 Jun 2021 - 6 minute read

Building a Lightweight 10MB Embedded Linux OS on a Beaglebone Black ARM Cortex-A8

Introduction This project was built on a Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS VM w/ 4GB RAM and 2 cores. This tutorial will show you how to build the latest (now as of writing) 5.5.5 kernel on the Beaglebone Black with a root filesystem that is less than 10MB which can be easily ported to other boards and IOT devices. The tutorial will consist of using crosstool... Read more 16 May 2020 - 13 minute read

HTB: Bank Walkthrough

Introduction Bank is an “easy” machine on HackTheBox. This box was a fairly steep learning curve albeit there was a alot of important takeways being the DNS enumeration, Virtual Host Routing check, modifying HTTP response headers to stop redirecting webpages and the RCE technique. Recon and Enumeration root@kali:~/Documents/boxes/bank# nmap -... Read more 16 Apr 2020 - 10 minute read

HTB: Arctic Walkthrough

Introduction Arctic is an “easy” Windows machine on Hackthebox. Reconnaissance & Enumeration root@kali:~/Documents/boxes/arctic# nmap -sC -sV -O -oN nmap.nmap 10.10.10.11 Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-04-11 13:10 BST Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.11 Host is up (0.027s latency). Not shown: 997 filtered ports PORT STA... Read more 13 Apr 2020 - 5 minute read