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Feb 12, 20234 min read

PowerShell: Implementing SFTP in a Script.

The idea for this simple project originates from a situation I encountered while creating a lab to implement a Cisco Firepower Threat Defense appliance on EVE-NG. The lab required me to upload the FTD image to the fil…

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Dec 3, 20236 min read

MPLS, The Layer 2.5 Protocol & L3VPN: A Weekend Project Journal #1

MPLS, short for Multi-Protocol Label Switching is a “routing” protocol that uses labels to route data from one node to another. The reason why routing is in quote’s is because MPLS is not so much a routing protocol as…

Ariel Torres

Oct 9, 20234 min read

Link Layer Discovery Protocol: A Weekend Project Journal

The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a networking protocol that allows network devices to advertise information about themselves to other devices on the network. This information includes device name, port ID,…

Ariel Torres

Jul 3, 20234 min read

FetchMap: A Port Scanner Idea using Fetch

The Fetch API is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) for accessing and manipulating HTTP requests and responses. It was designed as a better alternative to the older XMLHttpRequest API which is now si…

Ariel Torres

Feb 19, 20233 min read

Implementing Basic Authentication With Python FastAPI

The inspiration for this project came from an initiative I started a few years ago called PyDex. It was essentially a repository of “borrowed” copies of various textbooks that I obtained either for college or by scour…

Ariel Torres

Feb 11, 20233 min read

Wireshark? Nope, Network Shell (Part 3 Final)

This was the blog where I finally got asynchronous scans working and I was excited to introduce this feature, but it turns out that it doesn’t make sense, at least for what I’ll be using it for. You see, we’re capturi…

Ariel Torres

Jan 28, 20234 min read

PowerShell Anti-Virus?…Kinda: Leveraging VirusTotal API to check file hashes with PowerShell

Today’s short project came from my exploration of VirusTotal and the expansive amount of data/tools that they have available. Their most powerful tool is their API, which allows us to perform searches of URLs, Hashes,…

Ariel Torres