Jan 23, 20224. Oopsie — Beginner/Learning BoxSo… yes, I’m not doing the V.I.P. machines, can’t afford them, but this should do! Standard procedure, nmaping (-sC & -sV) the everlasting ports out of it! A quick look into the http server gives us some clues (hopefully)Hacking6 min readHacking6 min read
Jan 19, 20223. Crocodile — Beginner/Learning BoxI had a hard time spelling the name. Let’s start! 2 ports open, one has anonymous FTP login allowed, I want to know a little more about that but looks promising as funk (shortened from now on as AF); the other port is serving http with Apache, cool beans.Hacking2 min readHacking2 min read
Jan 19, 20222. Sequel — Beginner/Learning BoxTime for the second box of the second “stage” (I guess) of the Starting Point at HackTheBox, if by any chance someone is wondering where the writings are for the first stage… there are not; this idea, like most of my ideas, came a bit late so… yep. Let’s start. …Hackthebox2 min readHackthebox2 min read
Jan 18, 20221. Appointment — Beginner/Learning BoxSo, given this will be the first of my -hopefully- series of writing my path through some boxes on HackTheBox, I want to say a few things for anyone who may stumble upon these: Here I’ll be writing for myself, meaning, I want to use this space (and any further…Hackthebox5 min readHackthebox5 min read
May 31, 2020What can be considered an object in Python?Everything. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Now, in all seriousness, everything is, indeed, an object in python, from funcions to all types of variables, what ever you may do in Python can and will be treated as an object. Now, as objects we can see the identity…Python5 min readPython5 min read
May 27, 2020Object and Class Attributes in PythonIn Python, attributes can belong to the whole class or only to each object or instance of such class, this means that some attribute modifications can only be seen by the modifying object but some others will affect all the objetcs of an specific class; this is what is known…Python 33 min readPython 33 min read
May 6, 2020Dynamic and Static Libraries, why even bother?The first thing we got to clarify is: what are libraries? in short, these are files containing functions, definitions or even macros to be used in all sorts of programs, composed of 2 main parts: the header/interface expressed in a filed with a .h extension and the implementation, expressed with…Gcc3 min readGcc3 min read
Apr 20, 2020What If: Thoughts on ReincarnationRecently a barrage of “what if” regarding reincarnation, assaulted my mind, not considering whether or not reincarnation existed, but about what if it did exist, what if we had a soul which has the experience of all our previous lives, what if such soul could remember so? The topic came…Thoughts4 min readThoughts4 min read
Apr 1, 2020Two’s complement: How does it work?In computers, all data is represented in a base 2 system of numbers, also known as binaries, and some of this data may be negative numbers, so how can one store a binary representing a negative? Binary, as it’s name indicates, is the numeric system based on 2 numbers, those…Twos Complement4 min readTwos Complement4 min read
Mar 10, 2020De-obfuscating the IOCCC winner code of 1986Today (please, understand today as any day you happen to read this) we’re going to understand the winner code from the IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Contest) competition back in 1986; this code was written by Jim Hague. In order to understand this, first, we gotta understand what obfuscating is…Obfuscation4 min readObfuscation4 min read
