I made it to #HackGlasgow this year. I had a ticket for the first one last year, but life got in the way and I think I had to spend the day watching the kids. This time I won the calendar war and got this scheduled in early. First let me thank the organisers/volunteers, venue More
The first part of this was from back in April (https://cornerpirate.com/2025/04/22/hacking-my-brain/). In it I talked about how I had been living with panic attacks for several years and had, as a consequence, been living a limited life. I had decided enough was enough and I wanted to get back out there. So I decided to More
Soon I will have been in the security industry for 20 years. In 20 years of hacking the hardest thing to hack has been my own mind. When your own mind isn t playing ball there doesn t seem to be much you can do about it initially. I am taking a moment to talk about some More
Recently I found myself up against CloudFlare. I was able to sidestep it during the engagement and then get SQLMap working. If you are short on time here is the technique in a nutshell: I hope that gets you where you needed to go. If you have the time, then context is often entertaining. Why, More
It finally happened: you have used responder to capture hashes but failed to crack them. This post covers one more way you can use Responder to gain access anyway. Just Give Me the Steps If you are time poor here is just the steps: In this configuration NTLMRelayX will relay any NTLMv2 hashes it receives More
September was a mixed bag and for the first time in a while it was more down than up. Health Update I fell off the wagon a bit on the weight loss front. I didn t continue the healthy behaviours as life got a bit more challenging. I haven t put on a lot of weight either More
August over all was a month with challenges. However, nothing was completely dreadful and I did make positive inroads with changing my lifestyle. So lets say it was good! Somewhere in the month we finally made it to the Burrell Collection. A lovely building, an epic park around it, and lots of things to look More
This was a challenging month. The school term was over. Kid A was behaving dreadfully due to the lack of routine. Partly because school was over, and partly because we went for a few weekend getaways, and a week in a hotel when a new bathroom was installed in our house. This disruption added up More
Overall a good month. I did my exercise (150 active minutes per week) for the whole month. The weather was alright. This was however the month where Kid A chucked the TV remote at the TV thus wrecking said TV. It was gone way before it s time considering I got like 15 years out of More
May was mostly excellent thank you for asking. I have now consistently been getting my active minutes way over the 100 minute per week goal for the last few months. I am now getting better at the 2 mile distance and feeling a lot stronger and more focused in general. From physical health flows everything More
April was 75% excellent and then a week of feeling ill after vomiting. It marked the first month where I managed multiple weeks back-to-back hitting my exercise goals for a little while. I was getting pretty decent at my 2 miles every other day before work before I was sick. I took a week off More