As I've mentioned on the front page of my site, I crew for a couple of cars racing in the Super Pro ET class who meet at the Santa Pod Raceway several times a year to compete for a chance to win the championship, and a little bit of money. I thought I'd dive into a bit more about how drag racing works in general, and how ET bracket racing fits into that.
This post serves as an 'interview checklist' of things that are important for a potential future penetration tester or somebody going into a cybersecurity career. This post will cover the tools I have used at university, and their place within the suite of tools one might use.
This week's blog post is on my shenanigans walking the South West Coast Path again, in particular covering the two days we did walking from Shell Bay to Swanage, then from Dancing Ledge to Swanage.
Whilst it has been a bit of a while since I walked these, I thought I'd take the time to post a bit about the coast path around the Swanage area, at the start point, which is just west of the chain link ferry that takes you across the mouth of the Poole harbour, to Dancing Ledge which is an amazing part of the world. The videos can be found below, or click for day 1 and day 2 on YouTube, respectively.
This was the last year of my degree at the University of Southampton. I wish I'd had this blog active from the start of my studies, so that I could both publish my notes freely, and comment on my thoughts on modules for many future cohorts.
It's a shame that it's taken me this long to figure out that these sorts of things might be handy and provide some good content for the blog for those that want to know about what I've been studying without necessarily looking at my notes for each of the modules, but here we are.
During the year, I took the following modules:
COMP6204: Software Project Management and Secure Development (Semester 1)
COMP6211: Biometrics (Semester 2)
In the morning of the Tuesday, we woke up to a broken hard drive :( which was not good at all. We were very chilly in the morning and so it was a welcome surprise when the sun came out. We spent the morning at the campsite and did some droning before we set off on a short journey to a place which was about an hour south of Cléuger.
So on friday night (7th April), my dad, my brother and I embarked on a journey of a lifetime. (Just kidding).
We set off on friday at about 5pm, ready to get to the port of newhaven for 11. We had McDonalds and prepared for the 3 hours of sleep which we'd be lucky to get on the ferry. At around 4 in the morning, we got off the ferry and drove for about an hour to a small Aire in the middle of nowhere where we managed to get another couple of hours sleep.
Welcome to my post on Hacksoton! Today I will be giving you a summary of what I got up to at the Southampton coding event.
To start things off, we arrived promptly at 9:30 when the doors were due to open and were welcomed by all of the organisers who gave us our name badges and food cards. The food cards were completely free and could be exchanged for a bacon & egg roll (breakfast), a sandwich, some crisps and some fruit. Dinner was burritos (chicken, beef or veggie) which were all very tasty.