Godfrey Yang

I am Godfrey Yang, with a background in mechatronics engineering and formal training in cybersecurity. This site is where I publish technical notes, walkthroughs, and study material that reflect how I approach hands-on learning.

Hey guys, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year with your loved ones wherever you are in the world. I thought before cracking down into challenges, it would be great to have a brief explanation of the situation and landscape where cybercrime can exist. This will be beneficial to readers that want to understand and maybe begin their career within Cyber Security.

As this blog is about my journey from zero to hero in the infosec community, I thought a good place to start would be to do some writeups of some basic Linux challenges. The way I will structure these posts is by first providing a list of fundamental knowledge that you will require to understand followed by a walkthrough of every challenge.

This is my summary for the “Splunk Fundamentals 1” certification. Although I have completed it before, I have decided to do a writeup for reviewing purposes. Knowledge # Splunk is a software that is able to organise, monitor and analyze machine data. It is able to collect data from any source that includes: