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Wowza, already been a year huh? It’s actually been just over a year since I joined Infosec.exchange. I was on Mastodon.Social for a while actually, but moved across a few months later. This is just a quick post I wrote in an hour or two, Looking back on my experience so far. Twitter I joined Twitter sometime in 2016. I had a few content creator friends, and at the time I wanted to work in video games....

I recently passed the Security+ (SY0-601). This is my first InfoSec related ceritification, so I thought I might write a bit about what I learned along the way. Way back in April of 2023 I was on a month long trip around Europe. I already knew by that point that I wanted to pivot from the helpdesk to the Security team at my current company. I had expressed my interest, but wanted to show that I was willing to learn outside of work....

I had heard about GrapheneOS a few years ago. I was getting into personal privacy and wanted to stop feeding all my info to big tech. My problem at the time was that only Google Pixel devices are supported (Officially at least). I was a high-school student at the time, so the small amount of money I got from my part-time job mainly went to video games. Privacy could wait....

My first job outside of uni (College for the Americans) was as a developer. Originally I wanted to be a video game developer. I planned to get my diploma (Not a degree, maybe a blog post for another time!) and go straight into game development. I fell in love with scripting and making software. The game development industry seemed chaotic and lost it’s appeal, so I stuck to software development and got myself a job....

OverTheWire is a great way to learn Linux commands, and a bit of “““hacking”””. From their own site: The wargames offered by the OverTheWire community can help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games. There are a few wargames/rooms that are offered. I’ll be going through the ‘Bandit’ room, which is the easiest/first. The Bandit wargame is aimed at absolute beginners. It will teach the basics needed to be able to play other wargames....