There are four main reasons behind this website:
1. To challenge myself
I commit myself to create a new post every two weeks starting on 07/05/2021 by creating this introductory one. By posting regularly, you will find here a lot of interesting stuff from different technologies after some time. And what is the best about it is that I will be “forced” to always find something attractive or educative for you to write about thanks to this challenge. So this will push me to constantly learn something new and intriguing.
2. To document my work
Why? When listening to people that have already decided to post about their doing, I found out that they have two things in common. They are very happy that they started posting and they regret not doing so earlier. Same here. If I could turn back time, I would start posting in parallel with starting to learn ethical hacking so you could be a part of it from the beginning. And for me it would mean that I could go back in time and look at what thoughts I had as a complete novice. Do not do the same mistake!
How? I came across many cybersecurity related blogs and a lot of their posts are about copy-pasting the procedure from ctf-focused websites and showing the flag. There are no thoughts or very little if any. So it is difficult to identify what piece of information is important (and therefore worth learning) or what is something that you may only use once in a life. You are not building your true hacker’s mindset this way. Hacking is not about flags. The true essence of hacking is trying to comprehend how things work. After that, you will know how to bend them to your liking. Capture-the-flag concept is just a way to make learning ethical hacking more fun. So I will not only post screenshots and flags here. I will show you how I think, what I learn and how I do so. I will also go that extra mile and do extra challenges/tasks in tryhackme and similar ctf-focused websites. I don’t want to cheat on myself or you. We cannot afford doing so in such a vast field as cyber security. Remember that how you do anything is how you do everything.
3. To show myself
At the time of writing this post, I currently work as a linux specialist which is quite nice and I am glad I made that decision. However, because I want to work in cyber security field one day, I need to have a means of showing my skills, experience and passion even though I have no real world hacking experience. In case you are in the same situation as me I think that creating your own website and posting about your hacking activities is definitely the right step. Want to know a little secret? Not many people have their own website. So if you do, you have an advantage that could lead you to your dream job.
4. To help you and the community
I know from my own experience that learning ethical hacking might get truly frustrating sometimes. So I have also created this blog for you to make your cyber security journey easier. Reading this blog and watching my steps, you can learn along with me so you don’t have to make the same mistakes. Once I get cyber security job and gain more experience, I plan to create tutorials also. But, as creating great tutorials and guides takes a lot of time, I am afraid that I have to postpone it. I need that time for myself and my studies at first. Also, one day I would love to create a huge complete hacking tutorial with a concept of “from zero to hero” where you will be able to learn everything that is needed to get into cyber security in the shortest possible time. Meanwhile, I plan to create tutorials focused on smaller topics that I found myself struggling a bit.
I hope I will be creating a quality content that you will like. I can’t wait to show you what I got!