Security Testing Journal Entry | w/e Friday February 9, 2024

Highlights for the week

Not quite highlights, but I had a little crisis of confidence where I had signed up for a freelance testing site for extra income. I bombed the QA assessment for no other reason than I dismissed their notes on classifying severity. I took a better look yesterday and passed it. All other things are moving at a steady pace.

What We Loved

1. Getting things done and being productive for once!

What We Learned

1. Coursera Week-2 - Interesting module on Incident Response / SIEM. Need to finish the quiz
2. Burp Suite - Finished XML Entity Injection Labs
3. Automation - Simple tests for radio buttons and links, where I got to use 1 selector with f-strings to minimize code duplication
4. Cult.ure - Paused. "Husb" another chapter in the bag. It keeps growing!
5. Mentoring - fun

What We Longed For

1. As alway .. a job.

What We Loathed

1. Unemployment!! The job market is a sh** show