I’m a big fan of YouTuber Ali Abdaal, his ex-PA now turned YouTuber Elizabeth Flipis has a great channel. She creates content about herself living in London while studying Medschool. Her latest video You’re Not Stupid: How to Easily Learn Difficult Things caught my attention. As someone who feels dumb 90% of the time, this is perfect, and the timing couldn’t be better as I’m learning computer science and programming....

Automate The Boring Stuff With Python is an incredible book, and course by Al Sweigart to learn Python coding and computer science for the everyday person. With its straightforward learning approach, and succinct program examples and explanations, it’s many hobbyists’ go-to book for Python. This article breaks down my personal solutions to the practice projects outlined at the end of most chapters. As I continue to learn Python and generally computer science, I enjoy seeing how others solve coding problems....

In March 2022, some friends of mine got scammed on Instagram. A scammer posing as a friend or work colleague tricked them into “helping” them out and took over their account. It’s motivated me to help those I know and love by being more aware of the dangers that lurk on the internet. The reality is, that the internet is full of your personally identifiable information (PII) being leaked and publically available....

While learning HTTP in Detail, I thought it’d be fun to put it to the test in the terminal. Here’s a quick exercise to practice learning HTTP Requests, Responses and Headers. Difficulty: Easy – new to Linux. Environment: local Debian-based Linux installation e.g. Ubuntu in VirtualBox. Commands: git, python3, cd, mkdir, wget. Steps Here’s everything you need to do, note, you’ll need two terminals to do this: Terminal 1: git clone https://github....

Welcome to TryHackMe Network Services Walkthrough Part 2, oh yeah! Let’s learn, then enumerate and exploit a variety of network services and misconfigurations, second up is telnet. Watch this Network Services Walkthrough for TryHackMe’s room, Part 2 Telnet. Task 5 Understanding Telnet Questions: What is Telnet? application protocol What has slowly replaced Telnet? ssh How would you connect to a Telnet server with the IP 10.10.10.3 on port 23? telnet 10....