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Background As we are brushing up on IT skills, I explore the Google Certificate in relation to Crash Course on Python. The Findings Resources – The official Python tutorial. This tutorial is designed to help people teach themselves Python. While it goes in a different order than the one we’re taking here, it covers a […]
Background As work-from-home increased since the Covid, securing the small office home office (SOHO) network is quite challenging. Solution Firstly, we get the public IP of the network that we would like to test via IPChicken. Easy Test The quick and free solution is to use the tools from PennTest Tool. On their home page, […]
Background We have been following one of YouTube’s IT security channels, and they mentioned Zero Day in relation to Microsoft Office (Follina). After researching this, we found that the vulnerability is actually related to Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool. The detail of the attack is mentioned on this – https://doublepulsar.com/follina-a-microsoft-office-code-execution-vulnerability-1a47fce5629e Temporary Solution According to Microsoft Blog, […]
Background Over time, we use multiple VPN products such as ExpressVPN and IPVanish and they are excellent products. But then we found that it’s underutilised so we decided to find alternative but cost-effective. We found OpenVPN which is open-source. Since we have multiple virtual machines in the clouds, we decided to explore and install this […]
Introduction Cosmos Database (DB) is a globally distributed, low latency, multi-model database for managing data at a large scale. It is a cloud-based NoSQL database offered as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) from Microsoft Azure. It is a highly available, high throughput, reliable database and is often called a serverless database. Features of Cosmos […]
Challenge We received an automatic email saying the mysqldump: Got error: 1045: “Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)” when trying to connect and this is related to automysqlbackup. When we test this by running: automysqlbackup the error will show up and the backup file on /var/lib/automysql/daily are very small and when unzipped it’s […]
Who is Jack Ma Jack Ma Yun is a Chinese business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate. In addition, he co-founded Yunfeng Capital, a private equity firm. Ma is a strong proponent of an open and market-driven economy. See: Wikipedia
Background We found weird behaviour on our website as the link could not go to the proper URL with the domain; in fact, it went to a third-party link. That’s quite alarming. We then checked Google Analytics, and the traffic went down. There was something not right here! We started to look further into this […]
Background We are getting used to the Remote and Monitoring Management (RMM) portal and looking at the information for the device is quite simple. However, some specific information is not available and the only way to get is by remoting to the machine. Sometimes the user at the other end is busy so not be […]
As we are challenging myself in picoGym, here is the guide on how to get the answer. The hints are very helpful. Obedient Cat Click the picoCTF web shell. Download: Check the file: See the file: Copy the answer – picoCTF{xxx} and post it into the field submit. Wave a flag Click the picoCTF web […]
