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I started this learning project with a simple question: what is really happening between the moment I...
I wanted to understand what a careful, low-impact reconnaissance process looks like before any deeper...
There's a malware trick I'd read about but never witnessed firsthand: a trojan that checks whether...
When I started my graduate program in Computer & Information Science, "malware analysis" sounded...
Disclosure: This article is a technical review and analysis of the following paper for my Computer...
Reconnaissance has always been the first real step in any security assessment — long before anything...
A few weeks back I went down a rabbit hole that started with one simple question: how easy is it,...
I've always been fascinated by the idea that a string of random-looking characters can hide something...
I've used the internet every day for years without ever actually looking at what leaves my laptop...
Networking always felt like one of those "black box" topics to me — you know your laptop connects to...
When I started digging deeper into cybersecurity, I quickly realized that almost everything in this...
If you've spent any time in cybersecurity, you've probably heard the Stuxnet story thrown around as...
"Dark web," "dark net," and "TOR" get thrown around like they're all the same thing — usually in the...