An operational vademecum for anyone working in security: the order in which you look at a system, the things you always check, the ethical rules that are not negotiable, and the story of the greatest hackers with an explanation of why they were.
Read the article →Why most security tools are written in Python, what makes it suited to offensive work, and the story of the language from 1991 to today. With the ethical boundary put where it belongs, and Python’s limits stated plainly.
Read the article →A compromised Linux server is not fixed by reinstalling: first you work out how they got in, then you look for the rest. A method for finding infected files with nothing but the shell, the signals you must not ignore, and why the order of operations matters more than the tools.
Read the article →The difference between free software and proprietary software is not the price, it is control. Why reading the code, being able to modify it and not depending on a vendor are worth more than any licence, and how all this came about from 1983 onwards.
Read the article →Learn how to properly update WSL2 and Ubuntu, understand and disable APT update phasing, and configure the best settings for Docker, Node.js, and RAM usage.
Read the article →