ECR and TryHackMe! Advent of Cyber – Day 19!

Today’s exercise is based on AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR). ECR is AWS fully-managed Container Image Registry Service hosted on the cloud. Well, it is not just you who is wondering what are Containers, Docker, Docker Images, etc.? Let’s understand all these fuzzy terms one by one: Containers: Just like Virtual Machines, Containers are a…

Nmap and The advent of Cyber 3 (2021) – Day 10

I am currently solving 25 days of the Advent of Cyber 3 on TryHackMe.com where each day they give a lab on a dedicated topic. Day10 is based on the Nmap tool. To solve the lab you need to find flags. Following my previous blog on NMAP, I thought it is good to exercise memory…

What is Nmap and how to use it effectively for Penetration Testing?

Information gathering is an essential step while performing pen testing on any target. Knowing your target better, especially their negatives could help to potentially discover its vulnerabilities. In this blog, we will learn about Nmap, and commonly used port scan types (TCP SYN and TCP Connect). There are many scanning tools available in the market,…

Hello world!

As I am new to the security domain, therefore the idea behind these writeups is to prepare detailed notes which can be easily referred to by myself or people who are looking to learn more about IT Security in layman’s terms.