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TryHackMe: Hackpark Room Writeup

Bruteforce a websites login with Hydra, identify and use a public exploit then escalate your…

TryHackMe: Alfred Room Writeup

Exploit Jenkins to gain an initial shell, then escalate your privileges by exploiting Windows…

TryHackMe: Writeups and CTF Logs Catalogue

Hi! I’m a beginner to Offensive Security and Pentesting, and am doing the TryHackMe courses. Periodically I will do a writeup of some rooms which details the step by step meant for someone else who is stuck, or a log of what I did for a CTF (Capture the…

TryHackMe: Mr Robot CTF Log

Can you root this Mr. Robot styled machine? This is a virtual machine meant for beginners/intermediate users…

TryHackMe: Network Services Room Writeup

The room: Learn about, then enumerate and exploit a variety of network services and…

The 3 types of code reviews

Most of us do code reviews on a daily basis, and some days we review more code than we write! Code reviewing is rarely taught so most of us have our own method of giving reviews. What I had realised over time is that there is not just 1 type of review, there are 3 types of…

Use Java Nullability Annotations to facilitate conversion to Kotlin

A common approach to adopting Kotlin is to use it in existing projects either in new features or by gradually converting existing code from Java to Kotlin. In these scenarios it is very common for the newly…

Handle process statuses with Kotlin Sealed Classes

Do you have scenarios where different handling needs to be done according to the status of a process? Something like:

data class Result(
    val isSuccess: Boolean,
    val value: String?,  // non-null when isSuccess…

Kotlin Cheatsheet: Coroutine Dispatchers

Kotlin coroutines make it easy to run asynchronous code, but choosing the wrong…