WSR: #20: May 9th - 15th 2022

GSTRT, Mindmaps, and Resumes

Published: May 15, 2022

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This Week’s Recap

No roundup last week because I was traveling to San Diego for Wild West Hackin Fest. What a great conference.

Got back from wild west hackin’ fest around 4AM. Took most of the day to just relax.
Read through Parent PID Spoofing and Oh how we can keep whispering the syscalls

Finished the first section of GSTRT on demand videos.
Finished creating my resume in LaTeX.
Experimenting with a new system from tracking all the courses/training/learning I want to do.
- Added a new calendar just called training that has listed out all the training/learning I want to do (projecting about a month or so out).
- This includes everything from certs, masters program courses, and other ways of learning such as hack the box prolabs I want to do.
- The goal of this is not to study every day that is marked, but instead is (hopefully) something I can use to limit the amount of task switching I am doing. Currently I waste a lot of time switching from all my ongoing projects which leads to a lack of progress on all of them. For example, the situation that lead me to creating this training calendar was I noticed myself switching between: Looking at Offshore, PNPT Studying, GSTRT Studying, Looking at buying CRTO, all while working a full time job. This is not sustainable. Thus, pretty calendar:

Decided to try out waking up early to get all my studying (for my masters program and just reading blogs, doing ctfs, etc ) out of the way BEFORE work. I realized that coming home from work and task switching between certs, masters, and other misc learning was not sustainable.
Began the second section of GSTRT material titled “Defined Current State: Strategic Roadmap Development”
- While the GSTRT material is not the most riveting material, the case study discussions are very interesting.
Finished the “Develop the Plan” section of the GSTRT
Picked up an extended mag for my thinkpad by rooting 40 boxes with FMJ

Discovered the SANS “Gold” program where you can write whitepapers and have them published. Might do this in the future.
Finished the rest of the “Strategic Roadmap Development” section of GSTRT
Indexed the first two books of GSTRT
Did some final resume editing. Very happy to see the career progress I’ve made recently.

Did a giveaway on twitter for 2 TCM Academy and 1 no starch press book.
Released GTFOCheck which is a python script forked from t0thkr1s tool. This fork basically just allows you to check a list of binaries to see if they’re in gtfobins instead of checking one at a time.

Do you have any questions? Feel free to reach out to me on twitter. See you next Sunday. :)