Longer Ramblings Become Research
In November of 2019, a friend of mine (the “claimant”) was seeking legal remedies after being cheated of his rental deposit by a HDB flat owner (the “landlord”). After two…
How often do people perform banking activities, or use the banking apps? Seldom enough to warrant some extra protections and caution around banking. Most people store their money in a…
Some weeks ago I awoke to one of my websites dead. A week before, I had upgraded the Virtual Machine’s MySQL from 5.6 to 8. More on that later. When…
The National University of Singapore (NUS)’ Greyhats organized a WelcomeCTF from 13 to 15 August 2021. Interestingly, this CTF was sponsored by DSTA, who ran the ill-fated CDDC2021 just 2…
Couldn’t think of a nice title. There used to be this thing I used to do back in 2007-2010, which was sending Class0 and Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) messages to…
Over the school holidays, DSTA (Defence Science & Technology Agency, Singapore), a statutory board of the Singapore Government, ran BrainHack 2021 from 10 May to 25 June 2021. Part of…
I came across an interestingly encrypted HLS m3u8 playlist the other day. This was on a site that you could only access once – after which, you lose access to…
On 30 October 2020, CNA reported that online shopping platform RedMart, owned by the Lazada Group, suffered a data breach. The stolen database contained the details of 1.1 million customers…
On the 4 January 2021, Member of Parliament Gerald Giam Christopher de Souza (correction: Mr Gerald Giam asked the follow-up question, but Mr Christopher de Souza asked the initial question….