September 5, 2024
Tines – Command Based Inputs Project
Simple overview: Command based input (i.e. chatbot) to receive specific results based on the command input. Currently works for receiving the most recent relevant Google search news result for the keyword(s) you supply or a command to receive a current stock market quote of the supplied stock ticker. This is basically just a “for fun” […]
Read MoreTines – IoT Project
Simple overview: Receive notifications to phone via HTTPS requests/webhooks from an arduino controller paired with an internet/gps sim shield. Potentially remote control the device via reverse method. This Tines Automation project started out as a simple project using IFTTT’s applet service. The original applet service was simply integrating smart home control with 3rd party […]
Read MoreTines – News Updates
Simple overview: This story is basically the same conceptually as the server status story with the core difference that this automatically receives any news posted to a specific/specified Google alert RSS feed for any updates to those feeds. Once an update is triggered, it will receive the feed, parse the feed for relevant data and […]
Read MoreTines Server Status Updates
Simple overview: This story automatically receives any updates posted to specific/specified RSS feeds for any updates to those feeds. Once an update is triggered, it will receive the feed, parse the feed for relevant data and collect snippet information. The story will then proceed to send that snippet data to my choice (in this case […]
Read MoreTines Email Template Generator
After completing class project 4. I had moved on to what would technically be my 3rd project with Tines: Programmatically personalizing emails based off templates. At the core, this Tines story takes a pre-defined email template and will go through and personalize it per intended recipient (including names, dates, specifics, attachments, CC addresses, BCC addresses, […]
Read MoreCasino War Card Game Mobile App
This was the second official programming anything I really had done, and the idea came about after creating the Blackjack Basic Strategy Trainer app. I played a “Casino War” card game in a casino once and wanted to play it again at home for both fun and theory testing purposes… Same as the Strategy App, […]
Read MoreBlackjack Basic Strategy Trainer
This is technically the first programming anything I really had done, and the idea came about after not being able to find a quick and easy to use flashcard style trainer that I liked in the mobile app store. Some of my personal favorite parts of the development side of this app are the realtime […]
Read MoreProject 3 – Splunk / Log Analysis
Cybersecurity class project 3 was centered around setting up Splunk and analysis of Apache and Widows logs. For me personally, it was a bit of a learning curve figuring out how to setup Splunk initially as we were installing through Docker containers outside of the official method designed for our class (The infrastructure used for […]
Read MorePhishing Email Analysis Automation – Tines SOAR (Project 4)
For project 4 (the final project of the Cybersecurity class I took in second half of 2023), I decided to do it on Automating email analysis in Tines for suspicious links, files and sender addresses using virustotal and emailrep.io APIs. It was a bit of a steep learning curve for me to be able to […]
Read MoreRekall CTF 1 (Project 2, Day 3)
The Rekall CTFs are the Project 2 deliverable(s) from the Cybersecurity class taken in 2023. The deliverable for the project was a penetration test report for Rekall’s Web app, linux server, and windows server. Split into 3 days, the CTF on day 1 was a pen test on Rekall’s web app, day 2 was targetting […]
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