Having passed my OSCP exam last week, I thought it would be good for me to share my thoughts with OSCP aspirants out there. A little bit on my background first. I have a bachelors degree in computing specialising in information security and have worked as a network pen tester for slightly over ...

Enumerating sites which are hosted on the same IP address can sometimes tell us a lot about a server. Is it shared hosting? Is it a legitimate server which was compromised for C2 operations? Does the site owner have any other shady business dealings on the side? I am aware that there are sites ...

Recently, Burger King took out a TV advert and used Google voice assistant's "OK google" command to make devices read out a paragraph on the whopper burger. While most news reports take a rather cavalier attitude, treating it as a prank, this is actually remote command execution. The attacker ...

DarkTrace is "led by leading government cyber intelligence officials from MI5, NSA and the CIA." Hmm... He also seems to have no idea that he has been trolled.

For the uninitiated, UVB-76 is a station that broadcasts coded messages over AM radio. It is still active with messages transmitted as recently as Oct 2016 and is speculated to be related to the Russian military. The transmission and tone generation equipment are from the analog era, hence I ...

It is relatively easy to hide the IP address of clients through the use of VPNs and proxies. However, it is a challenge for services since they need to be reachable by the clients. Imagine if your phone number changed at the stroke of midnight everyday, it would be very difficult for others to ...

I was recently asked to take a survey which authenticated users solely using IC numbers. According to guideline 6 of PDPC's advisory on the use of NRIC numbers, NRIC numbers are widely used for various business purposes and organisations that use NRIC numbers as user names or membership numbers ...

Go google for photos of 'exploding Note 7' and you will realise that in every single photo, the phone is still intact in a one piece. If the phone really exploded, you would be looking at fragments scattered over an area. The Note 7 caught fire. It didn't explode. The media just blows (no pun ...