Why ping test monitoring saved my site and personal reputation

Ping exam monitoring is not fancy. It’s really kind of boring. You’re essentially marking whether a host reacts to a simple asking from different positions.

QCON London 2019

I got the opportunity this year to attend the QCON London conference, ran my InfoQ, and would absolutely recommend it to anyone interested or working in the software engineering industry, that’s proficient with technical language and subjects. Most talks were aimed at a general wider audience, from engineers to CTOs, with abstract high-level material, rather than getting too down...

Splunk Alerts on Slack

For those using log tools such as Splunk, you can setup alerts. These will run queries every so often and trigger actions when conditions are met e.g. count of events surpasses a threshold.

This post is about pushing those alerts from Splunk to Slack. When an alarm is...

Defcon 25

Burner phone? Check. Laptop wiped? Check. Few WN722N adapters? Check.

It was that time of year again, where the InfoSec community got together in Las Vegas for the world’s largest hacking conference, with an estimated 25,000 people, for three day of: talks, hacking and drinking.

Parrot Manager

My side project for the last few months.

A simple cross-platform modern password manager, with the ability to synchronize a password database over SSH and make automatic backups.

Moving to Jekyll and AWS

Recently I have transitioned my website to be statically generated, using Jekyll, and moved hosting to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Not only does it load faster, due to being distributed around the world using AWS CloudFront, but it but it’s easier to maintain and reduces the potential to be attacked. And costs less!

The Importance of Captcha & Free Pizza!

During October 2016, Papa Johns held a competition to promote their Papa Rewards system, whereby users could enter an e-mail and potentially win Papa Reward points, or receive a £10 discount.

University

This page contains a summary of my achievements whilst at the University of East Anglia, studying Computer Science.

Hacking the Nandos Pong Game

As apart of a promotion between the 1st of September until the 31st of October 2012, the game allows students to win Nando’s Gift Cards worth £600 - with three of them up for grabs, hence £1,800 of value. To win the prize, one must simply play the game and fill-in their...