This Week’s Recap

4/25/2022

• Got access to the SANS GSTRT (Strategic planning, policy, and leadership) material. Went through the first hour or so of training.
  • This is my first non-technical SANS class for my masters program. While I’m not super excited about the content, I’ve learned that the less excited I am about learning something, the more I actually probably need to learn it.
• Started looking at different books and resources to begin learning how to program in C. I’ve had a few people ask my why I chose C so I thought I would elaborate here:
  1. My goal (as of now) is to go down the rabbit hole of red teaming/adversary emulation and while learning C might be a challenge right now, I think at the very least it will help me better understand how to interact with an operating system at a lower level.
  2. Learning a complied language is something that will undoubtedly be useful at some point in my career. Python is great but being able to compile and run something on a target machine is very appealing.
• Watched this episode of talkin bout infosec news

4/26/2022

• Worked on my presentation for WWHF. (Which is next week!!!)
• Went over some more GSTRT info.

4/27/2022

• Ordered Effective C
• Completed the first four module of codecademy’s C programming course.
  • Hello world ✔️
  • Variables ✔️
  • Operators ✔️
  • Conditionals ✔️

4/28/2022

• Finished the the next four modules of codecademy’s C programming course.
  • Loops and errors ✔️
  • Arrays and strings ✔️
  • Pointers and memory ✔️
  • Functions ✔️️
• Tried to find some good workflows for developing C in VIM but have yet to find anything great yet.

4/29/2022

• Bought The Art of Clean Code. Hopefully I’ll have time to dive into this soon.
  • It is very interesting to see the overlap (and differences) of different languages. Learning C has made me appreciate how easy python scripting made things.
  • I remember watching a stream from @theprimeagen where he broke down how he thinks about solving a problem using code and he mentioned how its less about the language and more about how you approach solving it.
• Spent a lot of time working on my wild west hackin fest presentation.
• Watched John Hammond’s video on Ghidra for reverse engineering

4/30/2022

• Spent most of the day getting IRL things done so I can not have to worry about them when at Wild West Hackin Fest
• Finished the rest of my presentation for WWHF.

5/01/2022

• Practiced my WWHF presentation to make sure I can get it into 15 minutes
• Published this blog :)

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