William Ma

@WilliamMa

Software Developer @ Telstra Health

Sydney, AustraliaJoined May 2022

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How Phishing Attacks Exploit Subdomains to Deceive Users

How Subdomains Are Used in Phishing Attacks Phishing is one of the most common cyber threats — and attackers are constantly finding new ways to make their scams look legitimate. One sneaky tactic they use is abusing subdomains to trick users into tru...

Jun 9, 20252 min read

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Phishing - Still One of the Most Effective and Underrated Cyberattacks

Phishing is a type of cyberattack where an attacker tries to trick you into revealing sensitive information—like passwords, credit card numbers, or login credentials—by pretending to be a trustworthy entity, such as a bank, a service provider, or eve...

Jun 8, 20252 min read

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The CIA Triad

The CIA triad describes three principles involved in protecting data. Confidentiality Integrity Availability Confidentiality Confidentiality ensures only authorized individuals or systems can access the data. A few ways we can achieve confidenti...

Dec 5, 20242 min read

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HTB Notes: Archetype

SMB Scanning the machine we find the following services running: SMB (445) SQL Server (1433) We can list the shares or services by using the following command. smbclient -L //10.129.227.227 --user=Administator This works because the SMB server is...

Sep 6, 20243 min read

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HTB Notes: Funnel

FTP We begin by scanning the box with nmap. We find two ports open on the machine: 21 (ftp) and 22 (ssh) We can access the ftp server using the anonymous user account. An interesting note is we could use either the anonymous or ftp user and we co...

Sep 6, 20243 min read

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How Phishing Attacks Exploit Subdomains to Deceive Users

Phishing - Still One of the Most Effective and Underrated Cyberattacks

The CIA Triad

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William Ma's blogs

Recently published

How Phishing Attacks Exploit Subdomains to Deceive Users

Phishing - Still One of the Most Effective and Underrated Cyberattacks

The CIA Triad

HTB Notes: Archetype

HTB Notes: Funnel