Patrick Double

As a seasoned Software Engineer and Cybersecurity professional, I specialize in creating secure, efficient, and innovative software solutions. I focus on application security, automation, and cloud technologies. Explore my work, insights, and the principles that guide my approach to security and software development.

Posts

  • Dual Booting Kali and Parrot

    I recently acquired two monitors that included a laptop with it. I decided to use it as a disposable attack machine. Disposable in the sense that I can re-image it without data loss. Now, Kali or Parrot OS? I’ve been using HackTheBox pwnbox which is Parrot for a bit. How about both!

  • Creating Personas using AI

    When working bug bounties, you’re going to create users. Some of the profile information can take a minute to think up, at least for me. Now, I’ve created an AI bot to create personas for me and they are pretty good. I get a name, billing and shipping address, username, password, fake credit card, personal interests, bio, tag lines, a resume and more.

  • AI Bot for Explaining Cookies

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets a lot of attention. I was skeptical at first, but after using ChatGPT instead of DuckDuckGo, I was impressed. After asking for it to write some code for me, then I was really impressed. I recently watched Practical AI for Bounty Hunters. Wow.

  • Crawling Large Sites

    I’ve been working on bug bounties and the tools I use for crawling HackTheBox machines do not scale well for large, public sites. These are a few things I’ve learned, and my methodology will improve as time goes on.

  • HackTheBox Sau Report

    HackTheBox “Sau” Machine
    Penetration Test Report

  • HackTheBox Hospital Report

    HackTheBox “Hospital” Machine
    Penetration Test Report

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