Preignition

October 14, 2025 - 3 mins read

Looks like for this box we’re going to be using Gobuster to do some web directory brute forcing shenanigans. After starting our Pwnbox and letting our instance spawn in we’re going to address the first task. Task 1 Dir busting is the other name for directory brute forcing, so that’s that. Task 2 That’s going to be the -sV flag in order to tell Nmap to do version detection (as we’ll see later).

Meerkat

September 13, 2025 - 10 mins read

HackTheBox Sherlocks: Meerkat Walkthrough Hello everyone and welcome to my first Sherlock writeup! I’ve done a few other HTB writeups before, but we’re going to start doing a few more of their Sherlock challenges. With the Holmes CTF fast approaching I figured this was a good time for all of us to brush up on our blue teams skills and start doing some investigating. What Are Sherlocks? Sherlocks are a HacktheBox (HTB) challenge type that more so revolve around digital forensics, network traffic analysis, malware analysis and so on.

Making Your Own Cybersecurity Website

August 29, 2025 - 16 mins read

Why You Should Make a Website Honestly, I think everyone should think about making a website, even if you’re not really into cyber or IT in general. It’s a fun little project, a great creative outlet and honestly, I think it’s good to decentralize the internet a little bit. Enough about that, why should you as a (presumably) security enthusiast go through the trouble of setting up your own web server instead of using Google Sites or some website builder.