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Introduction

In this post, I’m going to talk about a recent experience having a vulnerability in this website reported to me, the whole experience and how I dealt with it.

What Happened?

On 29th January 2025 @ 12:07, I received an email into my admin mailbox for my …

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Introduction

In this post, I’m going to talk about some topics that may or may not be new to you, how they led to me finding …

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Becoming a First-Time Author and Pivoting in Your Career

Life often takes us on journeys we never planned.

If you’d asked me a few years ago whether I’d become a published author, I would have laughed.

Yet, here I am, reflecting on my experience co-authoring the …

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Introduction

In this post, I’m going to talk about a concept you may have heard of (shadow admins), what they are, why they are a problem you need to care about, and what to do about them.

What is a shadow admin?

The name should be fairly self …

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Introduction

In this post, I’m going to talk about becoming a Microsoft Security Researcher. I mentioned this in my last post. I sort of brushed over it but when I was speaking to one of my colleagues and friends about the post just before …

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In this post, I’m going to talk about something that I discovered whilst working on a project a little while ago, some default behaviour in the Microsoft Azure Linux VM Agent which can lead to credential/secret leakage in your linux VM.

What is the Azure …