Now, I've already talked a little bit about how we can be teaching better. But today I'll focus more on how to fix the course/assessment gap, directly answering the problem addressed in the last post. So, the way I look at it, there are two solutions. One of them bad, which I'm sure is part … Continue reading Education Reform →

And I don't mean the difficulty. When studying security you learn a bunch of things, then you practice those things that you learnt, and then you have an exam. The problem is that the exam isn't on what you learnt. The challenge isn't about what you have already learned. The challenge is usually to figure … Continue reading Where is the Challenge? →

To put it bluntly, it didn't go very well. There we're a lot of reasons for that, which I will go into, but in the interest of making sure I'm not just making excuses I'll start with the ones that I can take responsibility for. Firstly, to be fair, I didn't make the most of … Continue reading OSCP Exam →

Another subject down at uni, only one more to go (assuming all goes well). My team we're a little slower than I'd hoped on actually doing anything, but alas, that is uni group work for you. I will give it to one of my group members though, after all of my attempts to get things … Continue reading End of Semester and OSCP →

Yes, I have no idea how to spell miselaneous, or whatever. Finished up the OSCP a couple of weeks ago, and booked the exam for the semesters break. Feeling ok about taking the exam, not super optimistic, but definitely not bad. I feel like the key to doing well is thorough information gathering and going … Continue reading Misc. Updates →

I started the OSCP a couple of weeks ago, and I'm about halfway. It's been pretty good so far, lots of interesting stuff, with a very practical edge. The difficulty level is pitched very well, all of the examples are designed to be followed along, which is a plus. Of course I've had some challenges, … Continue reading OSCP So Far →

Just in some spare time, because one of my less technical friends was wondering, I wrote a neat little script to parse wikipedia to find out which months had the most serial killers born in them and the results are in. Interestingly, or not, I wouldn't say there was any strong trend, but some months … Continue reading What a World We Live In →

Its been a little while, but I've been pretty busy. Currently mid exams, after a bunch of assignments. But I have had a bit of time to work on some things. Spiderforce has gotten some updates, mostly to the wordlist building (with regex and generators), as well as to the command line arguments. As well … Continue reading Updates on my life →

Sick title. Thanks. (Low-key haven't actually seen it yet.) (I've also been sitting on that for like 2 days.) Well, it works. Spiderforce successfully spiders and builds a wordlist. You can find it at github.com/daniellohrey/spiderforce, and here's the usage message: usage: spiderforce.py [-h] (-d DOMAIN | -D DOMAINS) [-s SCOPE] [-o OUTSCOPE] [-w WRITE] [-m … Continue reading Spiderman: Into the Spiderforce →

Just looked up decorators, they're cool. I take back anything bad I said about closure. The TL;DR is that you make your outer function take a function, thats called in the inner function, along with doing some other stuff, and then you assign the new function to the old functions name so when you call … Continue reading Decorators →