First blog post

Hello World,  

This is my first post on this blog. First I'll start with  a short introduction of myself before I get in to why I started this blog and what kind of content you can expect to see here.  

My name is Lennaert and I'm from Amsterdam, where I was born and raised. In my younger years I got in to video games and from there in to computers in general, and eventually developed an interest in hacking and cyber security. I study Digital Forensics at the University of Applied Science in Leiden.

This study exposes me to a lot of the digital forensics and incident response side of cyber security. I try to stay in touch with the more offensive ethical hacking side as a hobby by doing things like bug bounties, try hack me, and hack the box. I also try to practice Responsible/Coordinated vulnerability disclosure whenever I find a vulnerable system in the wild. Trying to balance these things I hope to form a good all-round perspective of the cyber security world.

Since 2018 I've volunteered for Hack In The Box Amsterdam, a cool security conference taking place in my home town. I also volunteer as a security researcher for the DIVD, the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure.

In my spare time I like to play the occasional video game, and when I'm not behind a computer I enjoy cooking or riding my bicycle. Time with friends will be generally spent in a bar, or at home playing board games.

I feel that's enough about me, so on to why I started this blog and what kind of content you can expect here.

My main reason to start blogging is to document my journey of learning. I will be using this space to share my thoughts and ideas on subjects when I feel it's appropriate to do so. Next to that I hope to show case some projects that I've been working on once they reach the stage that I feel confident enough in them to do so.

Another thing I might write about are bug bounties and/or responsible disclosures, but only if they provide something that I feel is unique or make for a good story. Of course, I will only share these things once the issues involved are resolved, or I feel I have given the involved parties enough time to resolve them.

Write-ups of vulnerable machines / HTB / TryHackMe are something else I often see on people's blogs, currently I'm not sure how many of those I will be posting, simply because I feel others often have already published a more eloquent write up than I possibly could. If I find something unique about a machine or learned something special I will probably write a bit about it.

I hope this first post gave you a little insight in who I am and what you can expect from this blog, and I hope to see you check back here at some point!