Dave Gilmore's Tech Blog

Mar 16, 20241 min read

Understanding Integrity-based Cyber Attacks Against AI Systems - Research Paper by David Gilmore

I am delighted to present my research paper on integrity based cyber attacks on AI systems. Please feel free to download a copy by...

Mar 10, 20241 min read

Red Teaming LLM's - Automated Pentesting Large Language Models

As more and more tools appear on Github relating to pen testing large language models I thought it would be good to test some of these...

Feb 14, 20242 min read

Let's Hack Some LLM's (Large Language Models)

I have learnt a lot about machine learning and LLM's over the past year, I have taken a handful of courses and I think I have a good...

Jan 30, 20241 min read

Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Badge

Today I earned my "Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals: Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and...

Jan 18, 20243 min read

Exploiting GitLab - CVE-2023-7028

In this article I will demonstrate how an attacker could craft a malicious Python script to initiate a password reset of a GitLab account...

Jan 4, 20241 min read

Automating Kali Updates With a Desktop Icon

OK I am getting ready for my shift at 8:30am but my Bash updater script has been on my mind, gotta make it slicker and easier for newbs. ...

Jan 3, 20241 min read

Automating Nmap Scans with Bash Scripting

Today I am revisiting good old Bash scripting in Kali, I have put so much effort in to learning Python in 2023 I had forgotten just how...

Dec 3, 20231 min read

Juypter Notebooks for Cyber Security

Jupyter Notebooks is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents containing live code, equations,...

Nov 28, 20235 min read

Testing Basic Concepts and Procedures for Cybersecurity

This was a University assignment I completed in May this year. Part A Task 1: Configure and test penetration testing Environment a. ...

Nov 28, 20234 min read

Implement Basic Network Infrastructure for an Organisation

TASK: Setup a basic network infrastructure and setup PFsense. The lab contains three nested virtual machines represented by the following...

Nov 28, 20234 min read

AWS University Project

In one of my University projects this year we are tasked with setting up a basic AWS infrastructure. Let's take a look at the questions...

Nov 27, 20231 min read

Delving in to Docker

Today I have continued my journey with Docker. To be honest I did try and learn Docker about 6 months ago and I have completed a Docker...

Nov 26, 20237 min read

Basic Malware Hunting with Azure VM's and Splunk

In today's post we are hunting some malware that has infected a Windows 10 virtual machine in Azure. In order to learn about malware...

Nov 26, 20231 min read

Testing Snort IDS/IPS on an Ubuntu web server

Image designed with GPT4 Dall-e With just one command we can launch Snort on Ubuntu and begin monitoring network traffic. In this lab...

Nov 25, 20231 min read

Book Expert - My AI Book App Powered by GPT4 Vision

Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on a book expert application that can view a book cover and then, based on my...

Nov 23, 20232 min read

Quishing Resurgence

So I saw an article online about the resurgence of quishing. As phishing attacks evolve, cybercriminals are turning to advanced...

Nov 19, 20231 min read

Linux Command Line AI

A few days ago I presented my Linux command line AI using Open AI's GPT's. NEXA is a dedicated GPT that is programmed to respond to any...

Nov 19, 20232 min read

How to download and install Snort for Windows (The Easy Way)

Prerequisites Snort requires the following dependencies: Microsoft C++ Redistributable Runtimes https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visu...

Nov 18, 20231 min read

Download Snort Windows Configuration File

Are you looking for a pre configured Snort for Windows config file? Then I may have what you are looking for! Please note this will...

Nov 15, 20231 min read

Demonstration of cryptographic authentication keys for comms between Windows and Linux over SSH

In this video I demonstrate my cryptographic key setup in my virtual lab. At first you will see my Windows 10 end point device which has...