Dave Gilmore's Tech Blog

Oct 29, 20232 min read

How to hack a vulnerable web server and exfiltrate sensitive data

In today's blog post I am going to show how easy it is exfiltrate sensitive data from a vulnerable web server that has a misconfigured...

Oct 29, 20235 min read

Phishing Email Attack - Run Book and Playbook

For my university cyber-security course I was asked to produce a Run Book and Play Book to document a phishing email attach where the...

Oct 21, 20231 min read

I am voted Team Leader in the Retrospect_labs Taffe VS Taffe cyber challenge

I am absolutely delighted to have been voted in as team leader for the 2023 Cyber Challenge run by Retrospect_labs. The 2023 challenge...

Oct 15, 20232 min read

Finding hidden directories and files on a web application (Directory Traversal Attack)

In today's exercise I am going to attack a vulnerable web application to try and discover any hidden directories and files, who knows we...

Oct 12, 20231 min read

New Lab Time ! Kali and Metaspoiltable VM's

It's time for a new lab setup to practise some fundamental web app exploits. I have an Azure virtual lab running on my Mac with two...

Oct 11, 20231 min read

Basic Cyber Security Report for LetUsCount (fictional company report for university course)

During the first unit of my Cyber Security course at university I was asked to produce a basic cyber security report that would...

Oct 11, 20231 min read

Evaluation of Emerging Technologies for ASR Farms (University Project)

In today's post I am sharing a short presentation that I put together for my Cyber Security University course. You will need PowerPoint...

Oct 7, 20231 min read

Creating a web app in Python

I have become really interested in creating a web app and was about to embark on the journey of learning Javascript, which I may still...

Sep 23, 20232 min read

Let's Attack My Own Server with a Denial of Service !

In today's article I am going to demonstrate how I initiated a denial of service attack on my own Windows 2016 Server VM in order to...

Sep 3, 20231 min read

Key Features of a Network Access Control System (NAC)

For my university course I was asked to produce a single page infographic to show the main features of a network access control system:...

Aug 19, 20231 min read

Installing my own Windows Server and Active Directory so I can hack it

In my continued efforts to learn more about the Windows Server environment and in particular Active Directory I have installed 3 nested...

Aug 12, 20231 min read

Threat Intelligence with Wireshark

Happy Saturday morning to you, it's 7am and Im up already after a very heavy week at work cracking on with some more Try Hack Me rooms...

Aug 5, 20231 min read

Creating blob storage with Azure

Happy Saturday everyone :) Today I am continuing my Azure training, practising setting up blob storage with a new Azure VM. I have to...

Jul 28, 20231 min read

Catching up with Splunk

Over the past six months I have done a couple of online courses covering Splunk, but mainly theory based, so today I am tacking some of...

Jul 12, 20231 min read

Analysing Malicious Word Docs with Remnux

Today's task is analyse some malicious Microsoft Word files that have malicious code embedded. Using Vmoneky in Remnux I can extract...