Projects with associated skills and knowledge. Theres a lot more that I have to put on here don't worry.

In this project I set out to create an automated process for me and my family members accounts to automatically collect daily rewards given to users that log onto a site everyday. These rewards can affectively be redeamed for USD so it quite literally is a way to farm free money. I can't really say more than that in terms of what the goal of it is but in essence that's the jist. How I am doing it however is a bit more complicated. In an overview I am utilizing a Bash script to automatically run a python script that utilizes Selenium to act out the processes that are required to obtain the daily reward. Repeat that for the multiple accounts that all operate from my device and then it shuts down. All with minimal input from me. Well, thats the idea. I will link it to my github when I end up publishing it.

In my Advanced Networking Security class we were tasked with coming up with a Cyber Security related project. At the time I was also learning about RATs, (Remote Access Trojans) and rootkits. I thought about what they could do and then thought about what I could do to potentially diminish the harm they could cause the victim. I ended up creating a File Integrity Monitor. It worked by passing in a folder of documents that you would not want to have altered or deleted from your computer. Once the documents were passed into the script the script would check the hash value of all of the different files within the file and then copy the files to a seperate file. This seperate file was intended to serve as a backup incase the original file was altered. For demonstration purposes I showed my Proffesor how the system would work by using two Virtual Machines. The first, my victim machine, contained all of my important documents while the second was the attacker. The vicitm had an important contract that was discussed and agreed upon, the only thing left was to print it off and then sign. The attacker however, disliked what was on the contract and therefore, was going to alter the contract while everyone awaited its signing. The attacker knew the victims credentials. He easily SSHed into the victim machine and needed to alter it to get his way in the contract. When he found the document he was able to open the contract and began editing the file. It was just how he liked it so he saved and exited thinking that when it was printed off he would have exactly what he wanted on the contract. This however is when my FIM came into action. It detected the change in hash value and restored the orignal copy of the contract to what it maintained. Thus saving the day. I ended up getting the best grade in the class for the project and since then have continiously broken my FIM, finding the mistakes within my system.