YARA (Yet Another Ridiculous/Recursive Acronym) is a great open-source resource (and language) designed for creating and sharing pattern matching rules. One of the most popular uses for YARA rules is to identify and classify files or data based on specific…
Through my learning in the CyberOps certificate through The Open University, what I really enjoyed the most were the hands-on labs, specifically the forensic investigation ones, as that’s where I could practice all the theory learnt thorough the course. These…
Until not long ago, I didn’t think twice about sharing my old (then main) Gmail email address with literally any and every service I’d come across in the internet. A 10% discount for sharing my email with this questionable eCommerce…
I watch a lot of TV, and for a few years now I’ve been using some of those tracking applications where you can follow shows, mark them as watch, comment and rate episodes and follow any newer releases and release…
I have been playing with WordPress on and off for many years now, and although I’m not a heavy plugin user (The less plugins you use, the less windows you leave open to potential vulnerabilities), one of the plugins I…
For a while, I used one of my Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB Model + 256GB MicroSD card) as a NextCloud server using the NextCloudPi image, and although it was pretty neat, it was more of an experiment since I didn’t…
Recently, I had the amazing opportunity to collaborate with (ISC)², the renowned cybersecurity nonprofit that specializes in cybersecurity certifications. Shortly after earning my Certified in Cybersecurity credential and becoming an (ISC)² member, I was invited to join them as a…
If there is a word to describe these past few months, that word would be revolution. From image-generaitng machine learning models such as DALL-E mini (Now Craiyon) or Stable Difussion to language models like ChatGPT, at this point everybody and…
Often compared to “the phone book of the internet“, a DNS or Domain Name Server essentially stores and correlates the IP addresses of websites and servers with their registered hostname or domain name (like prats.co!), which are human-readable and generally…
Email is flawed, and threat actors know this very well. Email was originally created over 50 years ago, and whilst it has evolved quite a lot during this time, email is still far from being as secure as other communication…