Thank you for stopping by! My name is Dan but most people online know me as ha3ks.

I am a hacker, content creator, educator and a public speaker.

I’ve been ‘hacking’ since he was a teenager but has been professionally working as an ethical hacker and bug bounty hunter since 2020. During this time I have completed many courses and picked up several ‘industry standard’ and recognised certifications such as the eJPT (eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester) to name the more well known.

I have a history of working to disprove Snake Oil salesmen in the infosec space and have had several well received articles dissecting these peddlers on LinkedIn as well as ‘live tweeting’ my activity on ‘X’(formally Twitter). A popular post-storm I penned was dissecting the Windows 10 tweak ‘AtlasOS’ which had just the day prior been featured on Linus Tech Tips as a way to get older machines running more modern games. The issue that I had with this is all AtlasOS did was disable Windows Security and Defender, UAC and other parts actually designed to keep users safe.

Towards the end of the thread I evidenced why this would be an issue with a simple reverse shell generated in MSFVenom and picked up by Meterpreter. UAC would have stopped this and Windows Defender would have stopped you downloading “Dan’s Dodgy Skinpack for CS:GO” - Link to the Thread . It’s not all negatives however, I also put up an complete Thread on building an Active Directory Lab with over 22 users, 1 Server/DC and 2 Client Machines in the hopes that this would help others out there wanting to learn and try new things - Link to the Thread .

Presently I am studying for the RTO (Red Team Operator) certification from ZeroPointSecurity. and awaits a retake at the OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional) exam.