On the joy of learning and bypassing brute-force protection

In the past few months I've been going deep into the world of Cybersecurity. Learning about analysing network packets in depth, scanning networks, finding vulnerabilities and how to exploit them, among other things, has made my passion for Computer Science stronger than ever. In this half write-up half ramble post, I'll try to explain why.

The thought process starts with a lab from Portswigger Academy called Broken brute-force protection, IP block, which you can check out here. In …

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