A friend of mine is doing a vulnerability-assessment internship and shared his practical task sheet with me — five projects covering the core skills of a junior VA analyst. I decided to work throug...

The scenario for this one flipped me from hardening to investigating: a server has seen repeated authentication failures — mine the logs, build a timeline, and write an incident summary. This is th...

The next task on the sheet was about attack surface — the idea that every service running and every task scheduled on a server is code that could be exploited or abused, so a secure server runs onl...

The next task from the same task sheet was a different kind of problem: build an access-control structure for a company where employees are onboarding across departments — HR, Finance, IT — so each...

In Part 1 I assessed a freshly deployed Ubuntu server and found five default-state weaknesses. This post is the other half: fixing each one without locking myself out, and then proving the fixes ac...

A friend of mine is doing a vulnerability-assessment internship and shared one of his practical task sheets with me. Instead of just reading through it, I set up my own lab and worked through it pr...

Overview Module 7 was the final module of TryHackMe’s Pre-Security path and the most directly security-focused. Four rooms covered the CIA Triad, cryptography basics, a hands-on ethical hacking ex...

Overview Module 6 of TryHackMe’s Pre-Security path covered how the web works across four rooms — DNS, HTTP, how websites are built, and a final room that tied everything together into one complete...

Overview Module 5 of TryHackMe’s Pre-Security path covered networking fundamentals across five rooms — the internet and device identification, LAN topologies and subnetting, the OSI model, packets...

Overview Module 4 of TryHackMe’s Pre-Security path covered five rooms — number systems, data encoding, Python basics, JavaScript basics, and SQL fundamentals. This module was less about security d...