JBJoshua Burtoninp0lygl07-reports.hashnode.dev·13m ago · 5 min readTryHackMe Gatekeeper: A Buffer Overflow Rabbit Hole (and the RDP Shortcut Nobody Talks About)Difficulty: Medium | Category: Windows Exploitation, Reverse Engineering Intro Gatekeeper bills itself as a buffer overflow room — reverse engineer a Windows binary, find the crash, build an exploit. 00
JBJoshua Burtoninp0lygl07-reports.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 5 min readSteel Mountain — TryHackMe WriteupSteel Mountain — TryHackMe Writeup Room: Steel Mountain (Advanced Exploitation path) Date completed: August 5, 2026 Difficulty: Easy/Intermediate Target OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Overview Steel Mount00
JBJoshua Burtoninp0lygl07-reports.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 4 min readFunctional Code ≠ Secure Code: A Deep-Dive into Python Code Hardening & AppSecWhether you're grinding through IT-140 (Introduction to Scripting) right now or working your way through upper-level cybersecurity tracks, there is a massive conceptual leap we all have to make eventu00
JBJoshua Burtoninp0lygl07-reports.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 3 min readSSH Brute-Force → Suspicious Outbound Transfer Anatomy of an Incident: SSH Brute-Force → Suspicious Outbound TransferThe Scenario Picture this: your monitoring stack flags a spike of failed SSH logins hitting a production web server, and almost immediately after, the same host starts pushing traffic out to an addres00
JBJoshua Burtoninp0lygl07-reports.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 5 min readRoot Access via the vsftpd 2.3.4 Backdoor on Metasploitable2 (and What Broke Along the Way)If you're working through Metasploitable2 for the first time, the vsftpd 2.3.4 backdoor is usually the first "real win" you'll get — but the walkthroughs online skip the parts that actually eat your t00
