Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 Hello, and welcome to another week of Security Queens! 🎉 This week I’ll try to give you a quick overview (not exhaustive) of a few common types of fraud, a bit of information about money laundering, and a little perspective about how it all ties into the Continue Reading
They See Me Scannin’, They Hatin’: A Beginner’s Guide to Nmap
Estimated Difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 Recon, Recon, Recon One of the most important phases of an attack, is the reconnaissance phase. Often abbreviated to recon, this phase usually consists of a variety of process and techniques to collect information about a target system. This phase may also be known as “Information Gathering” Continue Reading
Cryptography Terms
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Hey! This is a quick, simplified overview of some related terms for anyone who isn’t familiar with cryptography. I’ll add to this as time goes on to try and make sure it includes the terms used in other posts. 🥳
Bad Crypto 101: Spotting Red Flags
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜🤍🤍🤍 This post is heavily inspired by Simson Garfinkel’s A Field Guide to Spotting Bad Cryptography (2005) – link below – and aims to give you a quick, lightweight overview of things to look out for when you’re trying to assess the security of cryptography in the wild, Continue Reading
Google knows everything… – Part 1
Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 This post is in collaboration with the infamous OSINT (Open Source INTelligence) hacker @thecyberviking. “Google knows everything… – Part 1” is but one post in a series of OSINT related topics created with the help of that spooky dude! This post on Google Dorking will focus on Continue Reading
Bop to the Top: A Linux Priv Esc. Checklist
Estimated Difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 Congratulations, you’ve got a foothold!Now what? Bop to the Top and get yourself some Root! The following blog will detail my own personal checklist that I run through when attempting to privilege escalate in a Linux environment. From my personal experience, it has a fairly good success Continue Reading