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Why am I crazy about being an SRE?

I barely know jack shit about anything but just the word of being an SRE or a system being down and me being called to fix it pumps the blood in my veins. I was a software dev, Infra Engineer (3 months) and Security engineer (2.5 months). I do not […]

What is an SRE?

SRE: Site/Systems Reliability Engineer A site reliability engineer (SRE) will spend up to 50% of their time doing “ops” related work such as issues, on-call, and manual intervention. Since the software system that an SRE oversees is expected to be highly automatic and self-healing, the SRE should spend the other […]

Tips for working as an enginner

“Any engineer can solve a problem given enough time, a good engineer solves a problem in the least amount of time”. “Engineers try to solve a problem in the right way where they should be trying to solve the right problem” “Learn to say no to things that might block […]

Using raspberry pi’s to do your image scraping

So I and my teammate in many projects use a raspberry pi connected to to the internet, stored in a remote location. We use it as a git server and ssh into it whenever we want to see what either of us is working on every now and then. I […]

Engineering as a career

Programming/Computer Engineering as a career is pretty much exactly like playing World of Warcraft. You spend a year or two desperately trying to catch up with the people doing end-game raids. You petition, desperately, for the attention of a guild recruiter, and ultimately one of them has an opening and […]

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Why do security teams fail?

I lead my team to victory in 8 hackathons in the United States and consecutively won last 5 of them (before losing first 3 of them miserably). But hackathons are projects you create in 3-4 days depending upon the course of duration. I have worked as a WordPress Developer, Web Developer, […]

Site Migration 101

I am currently Interning as an Infrastructure Engineer at MeetUp.com. The company that helps organizes MeetUps around the globe. Along with this, I create a lot of projects and support/maintain projects for other people/companies at the same time. From one of my previous employers, I had a hard time Migrating […]

Fix “ioctl(SIOCSIWMODE) failed: Device or resource busy” problem.

iwconfig wlan0 sudo ifconfig wlan0 down sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor sudo ifconfig wlan0 up sudo iwconfig wlan0

Basic things you can do to protect your WordPress Blog/Site.

These are some steps and procedures I follow & recommend to protect your WordPress sites or projects. Keep in mind, doing something even slightly different can cause issues and your project might crash. 1] Changes in wp-config file Change your uploads directory to something outside the “wp-content” folder. You will […]

Port Scanning, Version Detection & Firewall Evasion Techniques in Nmap

Port Scanning Port Scanning, Version Detection & Firewall Evasion Techniques in Nmap which can be used along with other scan options in Nmap. Fast Scanning nmap -F [target] | nmap -F 10.10.1.1 The -F option reduces that number to 100. This can dramatically speed up scanning while still representing the majority […]

Advanced Scanning techniques for Nmap

Previously, I noted some basic scan techniques which are great for understanding and basic overview. These are some advanced scanning techniques for nmap to run and try out. Nmap, (by default) performs a basic TCP scan on each target system. You must have sudo privileges to run these commands. TCP SYN Scan nmap […]