It's quite exciting. I have no idea what I'm doing. I bought the Zero-Point Security C2 Development course (https://training.zeropointsecurity.co.uk/courses/c2-development-in-csharp) and am going to work my way through the course. I'm hoping it will result in a basic solution which I can then add things to for work. One of my colleagues also has the course …
Certified Red Team Expert: Course Review
https://www.alteredsecurity.com/redteamlab Having recently passed the Certified Azure Red Team Professional, and having done the Certified Red Team Professional in 2022, I decided to try my hand at Altered Security's "advanced" red team certification. This claimed to have more in the way of security bypasses and cross-domain attacks, so I was excited to get stuck in. …
Certified Azure Red Team Professional: Course Review
https://www.alteredsecurity.com/azureadlab Having been a pentester for over a year and worked my way through a few infrastructure courses, mobile courses and web app videos as well as what I'd learnt on-the-job, I realised Azure was probably my main knowledge gap. Having already done the CRTP from Altered Security in 2022, the obvious choice was their …
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Zero-Point Security Red Team Ops: Course Review
https://training.zeropointsecurity.co.uk/courses/red-team-ops Having passed Nikhil Mittal's great CRTP course in October 2022, I wanted something similar to sink my teeth into at the beginning of 2023. A colleague of mine had been working his way through the Zero-Point Security Red Team Ops lab and it sounded great, so I purchased it and started on my way. …
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My Career Journey: An Update
Well, it's been a wild few years since I last wrote about where I was in my career (here, if you're interested). It was 5 months into Covid being in the UK and a huge amount of personal life changes have happened since then, lots of which have been very difficult. However, I have also …
My Career Journey
On this day 11 years ago, I started my first full-time job as an admin assistant at a law firm. I had just finished my FdSc in Applied Computing (Distinction), following on from a National Diploma in Software Development (Distinction Distinction Merit). Another year on from that and the head of the Personal Injury department's …
Personal Security Quick Wins: Part 2
If you haven't yet, I recommend first going back and checking out Part 1 of this tips segment by clicking here. Great! Now that that's out of the way, here are some slightly more advanced/time-consuming tips on improving your personal security. Two-Factor Authentication In Part 1 of this series, I mentioned about using haveibeenpwned.com to …
How Not To Get Phished In 6 Steps
Phishing emails have been around since the 1990s. Why do people continue to use them as an attack vector? Because, sometimes, they work. Traditionally, of course, they came in the form of a Prince of a far-off land asking you for bank details so that they could transfer you their millions, offering you a cut …
Personal Security Quick Wins
Improving your security posture can be a daunting task, especially if you're not particularly tech savvy, so here are some quick wins to get you started, that I figure you can probably do within about 10 minutes. Automatic Updates Whether it's your phone, a Windows computer, a Macbook or your Smart TV, one of the …
OSCP: Complete
A more in depth report will come later, as I found myself too wrapped up in actually doing the OSCP material and labs to write up as I was going along, but after two attempts and a total of about 60 hours without sleep, I passed the OSCP exam and am officially an Offensive Security …
Tales from the Encrypt 