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Red Siege Python Challenge 2

Scope Project 2 - Web Header Reporting Scenario: Red Planet has assigned you to do a web app penetration test against a few target domains. There are a few findings that your team regularly report on, but aren’t very fun to detect or write up. As such, you are looking to automate this portion of your test so that you can spend more time going for something more critical. Beginner Task: Write a script that will have the user input a HTTPS URL....

March 13, 2025 · Ben Paris

Red Siege Python Challenge 1

Context I have been using python to automate redundant tasks for a while now, but I usually have an LLM do its best to write my script then go from there. This no doubt has saved me time, it is really impressive what can be done with a little coding know-how halfway-decent AI. That being said, I have a couple python courses coming up and I am pretty sure I will not be able to use AI on the test....

March 3, 2025 · Ben Paris

Python Refresher

Why I have been procrastinating on getting my first post up here. I have also been feeling a bit of imposter syndrome surrounding some of skills I have been learning and reinforcing over the past year. The solution I came up with is this: Going back and re-learning some of the basics Documenting the process here on this website I was not sure what to do for this post, so I leaned on ChatGPT for a quick idea....

January 25, 2025 · Ben Paris