I’ve recently switched to Ghostty for my primary terminal on macOS and have ran into the issue of missing xterminfo definitions when SSH’ing to remote Linux systems. The following commands copies over the working xterminfo to the remote system. In particular, I often run into this with Kali Linux.

Have you ever been out and about and suddenly needed to solder a new resistor on a PCB? Me either, but if the situation ever does come up you can rest assured that I will be ready! Follow along as I showcase my portable soldering kit that has everything I need to perform an impromptu soldering session.

Part 2 of 2 of a series of walkthroughs for the BreakICT CTF at OzSec 2022. Here I post the remaining challenges walkthroughs, including the ones I did not complete during the CTF itself, but were available after the CTF ended.

When building an Ubuntu image using Packer I was building out my own .pkr.hcl template file. Everything seemed to be fine, except I could never get the build to boot into the cloud-init and start installing the operating system. This post discusses the kernel panic and how to solve it.

A review of the Certified CyberDefender (CCD) course and certification exam from cyberdefenders.org.

While Python2 is end of life and should not be used, there are some tools and scripts out there that are not compatible with Python3. This guide shows how to get pip installed for Python2.