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Hi! My name is Isaac Basque-Rice, I'm A Security Engineer and former Abertay Ethical Hacker, and this website is a repository for all the cool stuff I've done, enjoy!
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Hi there! I’m Isaac! I’m an EDR Security Engineer at an Edinburgh-based MSSP and graduate in Ethical Hacking from Abertay University, Dundee. I am also absolute garbage at introducing myself so I hope that the stuff on this site’s a little bit better at telling you what I’m about than I am lol.
What Your Famility Thinks You Do: An Investigation of Hacking in Hollywood
Have you ever been having a conversion with a non-technical person when the topic of what you study (or do for a living)s come up? I’m willing to bet that within a minute of the word “hacking” leaving your mouth the person has leapt at the opportunity to ask you whether you can hack X Y and Z for them. Why actually is that?
Hacking has been (for better or for worse) an absolute mainstay in movies for over 40 years. For most people, this is the only interaction they have with cybersecurity outside of work and the odd news story. It stands to reason, then, that the depictions we all see and scoff at are what most people think we actually do. This talk will go over these depictions, talk about their effects on hacking culture and culture at large, and hopefully answer the question “how is hacking used in the movies?”
UFOSINT: Open Source Intelligence and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
UFOs, or more accurately UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) have been a hot topic of conversation for many years now. In the popular imagination this kind of thing is normally reserved for conspiracy theorists and “documentaries” on the History channel, however in recent years they have become the topic of much serious discussion amongst scientists and various military organisations around the world. In this talk I’ll go over some of the OSINT techniques used to debunk UFO conspiracies, as well as outlining some of the cases for which there is no conclusive explanation one way or the other (probably not aliens though).
Talk delivered 2023-03-03 at Securi-Tay 2023
Practical Malware Analysis & Triage
On 2022-08-15 I purchased the Practical Malware Analysis & Triage course by Matt Kiely (HuskyHacks) for £0.99, an absolute bargain. This repository serves as my notes for the course.
PLEASE NOTE, Due to my resuming uni work I was unable to fully complete this course, I will, however, return to it at the earliest stage I reasonably can :)
The Syscall Is Coming From Inside The House!: An Introduction to APTs
Another talk for the Abertay Ethical Hacking society, this time on APTs, or Advanced Persistent Threats.
Esperanto
I’m learning Esperanto Check out this article to learn why and how!
Minesweeper Reverse Engineering Workshop
My upcoming workshop for the Abertay Ethical Hacking Society, aiming to teach people how to Reverse Engineer, use Ghidra and OllyDbg, think outside of the box about common things, and have fun, all through the medium of one of the greatest games ever made, Minesweeper!
Notes on Reading a Scientific Paper for a Literature Review
My notes form a selection of online resources pertaining to the reading of scientific papers, something that isn’t especially easy for me, but that is made easier by a sort of algorithm for these things.
LaTeX Template
Forked an excellent LaTex Whitepaper template made by Mairi to add stuff around code listing and other minor changes that I implemented whilst writing my own LaTeX document. For help with LaTeX consult Mairi’s wonderful guide on her website
Tower CTF
My first foray into the world of CTFs, a little reverse engineering task. NOTE: This article contains spoilers for the CTF, if you would like to try your hand at the CTF before reading the article, the executable can be found here.
Who What When Warez Why: Piracy From The Source
On the 9th of March 2022 I gave a talk on Piracy and the Warez Scene at the Abertay Ethical Hacking Society, as is my way of going about things I first wrote an article fleshing out roughly what I was planning on saying, Please enjoy!
Stuxnet
My very first talk! This one was a 15 minute lightning talk for the Abertay Ethical Hacking Society on the Stuxnet malware, one of my faves :)
University Work
The home of all of my uni work, what to expect for future students, how I saw the modules themselves, and how I did the coursework
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
When it was free for a little while in July 2021 I took a 5 hour course on automation in Python!
Censis IoT Hackathon notes
I did a little IoT Hacking this past week, here are my notes!
Walkthroughs
This is a repository of all of the walkthroughs and help guides I’ve created for various technologies over the years, most, but not all, were for the Abertay Ethical Hacking Society Wiki originally
Turns out, Raspberry Pi OS CAN Be emulated!
A Guide to installing and running Raspberry Pi OS under an x86 Linux environment, pretty exciting stuff, eh?
HackBack2 — great fun, VERY challenging (Also OSINT)
Another CTF walkthrough I wrote for a single section of the Hackback2 competition in 2019, I came first in the OSINT Section which I was pretty chuffed about
CTF Walkthrough — c4ptur3-th3-fl4g — tryhackme.com
A walkthrough I wrote for the first CTF I did back in October 2019, go easy on me I was only a skid then lol
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My email: izbr [at] protonmail [dot] com
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