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Taking Over Renamed GitHub Account Repositories

iHack 2020: “Modemz from another time” Writeup

Last weekend was the iHack CTF, here’s a writeup for a…

Back to basics: Decoding Audio Modems with Audacity

Code, stress and entropy

Musings about the parallels between computer systems, physics, and biology to…

Securing plaintext Mikrotik RSyslog communications to Datadog or Logz.io using TLS

CTF Write-Up :: Categorizing images in Python

How we brute forced a computer vision challenge with…

Simplify your JavaScript – Use .some() and .find()

Macros: DRY has come to your CloudFormation templates.

A newbie’s guide to Software Defined Radios on Kali Linux | Part 3: Using a RaspberryPi as a transmitter

UITableView Auto Sizing Header & Footer Views with AutoLayout

A newbie’s guide to Software Defined Radios on Kali Linux | Part 2: Listening to airplanes and on-call pagers

A newbie’s guide to Software Defined Radios on Kali Linux | Part 1: Fun with FM radios

Hunting Mutants with Mutmut

There are many reasons why you might want to write tests for your code: to prove it works as expected, to…

Destructuring in JavaScript

Destructuring is a powerful way to create or assign variables from values…

Detecting Plaintext Passwords in Google Drive

The title says it all

Mobile APN configurations for cheaper data abroad: A case-study

The Poka Team

If you’ve been following this blog, you may be curious to know who’s writing all these awesome articles. Here at Poka, I have the…

Privilege escalation in the Cloud: From SSRF to Global Account Administrator

Serverless ETL using Lambda and SQS

AWS recently introduced a new feature that allows you to automatically pull messages from a SQS…

Automation for non-developers (and developers) using Zapier

Turn your Angular App into a PWA in 4 Easy Steps

Cross-Region Import/Export for CloudFormation

While we wait for CloudFormation to become a global…

Managing AMIs using CloudFormation

One of the long-time missing pieces of CloudFormation is AMIs (Amazon Linux Images). Creating…