Dave Gilmore's Tech Blog

Nov 12, 20231 min read

I Created My Own Linux Command Line Personal Assistant Using AI

Say $hello to NEXA It's been amazing learning the Linux terminal but it's a hard transition from a life long user of a desktop...

Nov 11, 20233 min read

How to Secure A Linux Ubuntu Web Server with Cryptographic Authentication Keys

In today's article Im going to explain how to setup cryptographic authentication keys for Linux. Our environment is VirtualBox and we...

Nov 6, 20231 min read

How to Install Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on Windows Server 2022

If you are looking at a reasonably easy way to install two factor authentication on a Windows 2022 server then I have a simplified,...

Nov 6, 20231 min read

A Password Verification Script with UI

As my University cyber security course comes to a close I am tackling the final project along with a team of 4 other students. Eliyah,...

Nov 1, 20231 min read

Setting up Active Directory on Windows Server 2022 and Adding Users

Following on from last post I now have all my VM's setup, fully updated and working a treat in my Azure lab environment. The picture is...

Oct 31, 20231 min read

Setting a new lab environment for a hackathon

It's new lab day in Dave Techguy's world ! My son is off school sick so I am not able to go in to work today so im setting myself up a...

Oct 30, 20231 min read

We Won 2nd Place in the Taffe vs Taffe Cyber Challenge

Absolutely delighted to announce that the team I led in the Taffe Vs Taffe Cyber Challenge 2023, hosted by restropective_labs, has won...

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 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 30, 20231 min read

Creating new users and adding to admin group with Powershell

I do love Powershell so it was an absolute joy to find out that in my latest University assignment I had to create some users using only...