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Welcome, I'm Nick

I am a security engineer specialising in red and blue team aspects of cybersecurity.

Recent posts

Technical blogs written by me

Web Security

Discover hidden vhosts via HTTP/1.0 Host fallback, then SSRF localhost to leak a flag-bearing header through /think.

Boot2Root,  Red Team

Learn how to upgrade a basic reverse shell into a fully interactive TTY with tab completion, job control, and clean terminal output.

Linux,  Boot2Root

After gaining initial access, often times we will need to exfiltrate files out of the target system to our local machine.

Work and Projects

Dynamic File Generator

A cybersecurity tool to aid in generating logs or traffic by creating application compatible dummy files with arbitrary sizes.

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Cluster User Emulation System

An emulator system to simulate and monitor a mid size cluster of users’ normal network traffic actions and the local activities events.

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YouTube

I post walkthroughs of Boot2Root machines and CTF challenges.

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Gigatal Wallet

A security first, web-based digital wallet implemented with RBAC, IAM with Keycloak and Docker.

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Circle of War

A CTF hosting platform built for organising CTF challenges. Winner of Antler Ignite competition.

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Trace-based Exploit Detection

Research on low-level program's execution traces for exploit detection such as execution flow hijacking and ROP attacks.

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