Reasonable use of personal data

I had to place an obituary in the Straits Times recently. SPH offers an online service where you can use their tool to design the obituary and make payment, all without going down to their office. I decided to use the service. I entered my personal details and contact information into the first ...

Improvements to SEAB's investigation process

Today newspaper published an article on how SEAB handled the investigation into the O-level cheating case. I was mildly horrified upon reading it and felt that the investigation could have been conducted in a more professional manner. The perpetrators discovered that they were caught even ...

D-Link router's ping function

D-Link routers have a basic ping function built in to them. Unlike their ASUS counterparts, which have ping, netstat, traceroute and nslookup builtin, D-Link routers have much more basic functionality. The ping function only displays success or failure and not the entire raw output of the ...

CREST CPSA Review

Compared to the OSCP or even the CISSP exam, there seems to be very little information online about CREST examinations. Hence, the reason why I want to share my thoughts on the CREST CPSA exam. That said, all candidates had to agree to an NDA, I will try to provide as much information as ...

ASUS router's ping function

ASUS routers have diagnostic tools built into their dashboard which allows authenticated web users to execute ping and netstat commands and have the output be displayed on the webpage. Naturally, this seems like a really good entry point to perform command injection, have the router execute cat ...

Visualizing fitness tracker data

I recently started wearing a fitness band and wanted to visualize the activity data in a heatmap format. This article will go through my thought process in deciding how to parse the data. It is not intended to be a copy and paste tutorial since the fitness band, app and visualization library I ...

Deprecating HTTP - Lessons from SSH/Telnet

Recently, both Firefox and Chrome has been coming down hard on HTTP websites. According to this article, HTTP will be labelled as "Not Secure". This is hardly the first step, HTTP only websites have already had their search ranking penalised, and more stringent measures will surely be put in ...

Top 2000 Wordpress Plugins

The top 2000 Wordpress plugins by popularity. 2419 to be exact, all plugins with at least 5000+ active installs. List is accurate as of 20 Jan 2018. Interestingly, I could not find something similar online. The Wordpress plugins site does not allow sorting by popularity. Name Active Installs ...