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Road to OSCP Part 1

In the Beginning...

Posted on March 23, 2022

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With my recent new employment as a graduate penetration tester, my mind now turns to the next major hurdle that any InfoSec consultant must jump to advance their career, certifications. It can be pretty daunting to figure out where to start in the world of security certifications, but luckily I’ve... [Read More]
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Hackcelerator Major Project Part 1

Setting up my lab

Posted on December 23, 2021

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As part of the Privasec (now Sekuro) Hackcelerator program, I was tasked with experimenting with a very basic meterpreter shell in order to identify potential indicators of compromise. To begin, the first thing I needed to do was set up a couple of virtual machines using VirtualBox, one Kali machine... [Read More]
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Steggle Development Part 5

Implementing Read

Posted on March 29, 2021

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With the write system proven to work based on my previous experimentation, this week I set about implementing a read system that could take written messages within images and easily decode them for display to the user. My process for collecting data from the image’s bitmap was pretty much the... [Read More]
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Steggle Development Part 4

Implementing Write

Posted on March 24, 2021

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With the knowledge and proof of concept gained from last week’s work, I finally set about actually implementing part of my steganography tool. This week I focussed on the write feature and my overall goal was to fully implement it by the end of the week. My first challenge was... [Read More]
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Steggle Development Part 3

Image Manipulation

Posted on March 16, 2021

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With all the planning research work out of the way, this week I finally started work on producing the program itself. My primary objective of this week’s work was to produce code that acted as a proof of concept, code that could conclusively show that the solution I have been... [Read More]
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Steggle Development Part 2

Exploring Steganography

Posted on March 13, 2021

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My first priority for my project this week was to undertake some research on how exactly messages can be hidden within PNG image data. Throughout my research I have frequently come across a technique known as ‘least significant bit’ steganography, it is generally regarded as the simplest and most straight... [Read More]
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Steggle Development Part 1

Exploring PNGs

Posted on March 3, 2021

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In order to understand how to modify a PNG, the first step I knew I needed to take was to learn how exactly a PNG works, how it’s structured and how I can go about changing its raw data. Naturally, my first step was to discover the structure of a... [Read More]
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