September 25th, 2020
To everyone who has never heard of Amazon Web Services, it is one of the on-demand cloud computing companies, which offers more than 2400 services to give us the full length experience in the cloud. To everyone who doesn't have any idea what cloud is, please read my previous blog on cloud computing. Before I talk about why I love AWS, I want to tell you why I am eligible to talk about AWS. I am currently preparing for the AWS cloud practitioner exam, and I am hosting my website statically on AWS ...
September 4th, 2020
Most of the people who are reading this blog might have never heard the word Linux in their life. Some might have heard it when people were talking about how almost 70% of servers run on Linux and it is the most powerful OS (Sorry to break the bubble, it is not a tool). Some people might have heard of it as an Operating System, and some might have already started working on their own projects and try creating their kernels or packages. If I have to explain to a newcomer who has never heard the word ...
August 21st, 2020
Time is everything for me. I really like to plan my entire week’s worth schedule on Sundays. I usually do everything that I have planned that week unless I am on a break where a different method arrives. If I ever were to miss anything that I have planned for the week, I will be strict by not rewarding myself. I have previously written two articles at the beginning of each semester with some tips ...
August 14th, 2020
I chose AWS to host my website because of their super fast hosting services. I was even more impressed when I started to learn about their CloudFront service, or Route 53 service; I was able to visualize the benefits that came with AWS just looking at the setup. It’s always nice to use Platform as a Service (PaaS) because we’ll know how it will work in real life without having to worry about the hardware. Before hosting the website, I got the domain name from “godaddy.com,” so I didn’t have to purchase the domain from AWS. I also had to make sure the website has an SSL certificate...
August 7th, 2020
It's been more than a year since I started writing blogs, and so far, many of my close friends have asked me only one question. “When will you get your own domain?”I was waiting for the right moment to get my own domain and website, even though I have been waiting for longtime. I promised myself that if I ever got one, I would code the entire website by myself.
July 3, 2020
They say everybody has this one special person in their lives. One who really changes them, makes them a better person. The one person you can’t live without. I met mine 10 years ago, Sahasra. There have been many ups and downs in my life these past ten years, but the only person who got...
June 26, 2020
Thank you everyone for reading the first part of the blog. If you haven’t read the blog yet, please do read the first part of the blog, as this part is interlinked! so this part makes more sense. After my Sophomore Year, many things have changed in my life. I started taking Advanced Placement (AP)...
June 19, 2020
I love storytelling, sometimes I tell stories with my code, sometimes with my photography, other times with Data Science, but many times I tell them with my words and if I have to tell where it all began, the first answer without any doubt would be my high school yearbook productions. Most of the people...
June 5, 2020
“I’ve always wanted to learn music, but I have no time Krish,” “I want to learn creative writing, but I’m too busy Chaitu,” “I want to seriously focus on data science, but I have no time bro.” I think everyone has either said this or they heard it from someone else at least a thousand...
May 29, 2020
One of the reasons why a company gets into a better position in the market is because of the core leadership team, but the first reason for a company failing to deliver its product or give it the best quality is because of the leader and the core team behind him. We need leaders in...
May 22, 2020
I don’t know when I had this dream for the first time. A dream that has haunted me for years and years now. Thirty-six years of watching my hard work and dreams burn to the ground. Many things have changed, many people have come in and out of my life, yet this dream has not...
May 15, 2020
In a single weekend, two mass shootings happened in which thirty-one people were killed and more than a dozen injured. Everyone in the country was waiting to hear what President Trump was going to say about the mass shooting that happened over the weekend. Two mass shootings in less than three days created a lot...
May 1, 2020
The UIC Quad, the ARC Starbucks, the walk from 1200 W. Harrison to BSB, an overnight stay at The Automatic Lofts, the so-called west campus, midnight conversations about dreams, my favorite view from the tenth floor of the ARC, those tiny stairs in Burnham Hall, room 4-192 in the Library, trying to find some space...
April 24, 2020
“Hey, what elective are you taking?” “What is a fine arts class?” “Did you complete your English requirement already?” “Can you give me your CRN, so we can both be in the same Data Structures class?” “Is it only offered at 12pm? Oh no, it clashes with another class.” Yes, I am talking about one...
April 17, 2020
Stories, stories, and more stories. We are all filled with stories and every story has a goal, a motto and a soul in it. Seven billion people and every person has a different story to tell but today this story is about me; Krish Bavana. It’s not a great story, but a story of a guy with dreams. The most common structure of a story is the beginning, middle and conclusion, but today I want to tell a story of a beginning with an unfinished ending. I really don’t know where to start, but if it needs an introduction, I would start it as an average looking, six-foot-tall guy born in a very small village trying to dream about establishing his own company...
April 10, 2020
Quarantine, Quarantine, Quarantine, I have heard this word more than I heard my own name. Somewhere it feels out of sync to see that everyone is experiencing a weird situation of not knowing what is happening or when everything will get better? Frankly speaking, no one has the answers for anything at this point, but...
April 3, 2020
Introduction: Leadership is key for everything in this world from White House politics to leaders in high schools. Everyone helps the community to live better and do some service to our society, whereas the leadership style in corporate is not about social service but it is about making their company and economy better. Movies and...
March 27, 2020
Have you guys ever heard about the butterfly effect? It is a very common theory used in many movies, but recently I have experienced a new effect called the ‘Bat’ effect. From someone eating bats in China to transitioning to online classes at the University of Illinois Chicago, it’s quite astonishing how everything is interlinked....
March 13, 2020
I have never hated anyone in my entire life as much as I did you. I vaguely remember seeing an old C/C++ book in my father’s book collection when I was a child. I don’t know why but I started hating you right from that moment.
February 28, 2020
Zero percent personal time, A writing project for English, two major assignments for Critical Thinking, three Computer Science projects, four Midterms, five mathematical computing labs, and six feet tall me surviving on less than seven hours of sleep...
February 21, 2020
Ever heard the quote, “Have a childlike curiosity” most of us did but what happened now. Our entire lives, we were told to have “a childlike curiosity,” and for a long time we did? Didn’t we? But what happens to us when we grow up that we stop being curious? Did adulthood kill curiosity in...
February 14, 2020
Cloud Computing. to me, this sounds so powerful, and rich, but what even is it? I do not exactly remember where I heard this word for the first time, but after going to college, I have begun to hear it more often. I started becoming more fascinated by the term, and wanted to learn more...
February 7, 2020
It is easy to appreciate nature while sitting on the beach, watching the sunrise and set, but it’s just as easy to resent that same beach in the time of a hurricane or tsunami. There’s good and bad to everything, and the same remains true in nature. Despite loving nature my entire life, I remember a few days last year that I was so frustrated with...
January 31, 2020
When I started college, I was really confident about everything that I was going to do. It only took one week to lose all of it. However, I wouldn’t call this journey as bad as the first semester because it has taught me many values. I always believed I was really good at time-management, but...
January 24, 2020
What did I do during my winter break? When I was coming to the last week of break, I was thinking about what I have learned or how this break has helped me to explore my interests. One month break during my college is really useful for me, and I had many plans for this break, but the most important one was to regain my sleep. Apart from my sleep, I had five important things to do during the break and they are...
January 17, 2020
Changing my major was not an easy process. I started out as a Mathematics Major in the Mathematics and Computer Science department in the Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) college. I always loved mathematics, so much. Most of the people in my high school know me for my math skills or from yearbook photography. I used to love math so much, that I used to explain math problems to my friends all the time, and algebra was like my family member...
  I still remember going into this year with so much disappointment and feeling exhausted by everything. Graduation was in less than six months, many of my friends already know where they ...
November 8, 2019
Why did data science get so popular? There is data all over the world and it is even more in the internet world. We need to understand that data and we need to predict what the audience wants and how it will change the future. We need complicated algorithms to solve those problems and to solve those complicated programs and understand the data, we need people with both mathematical knowledge and computer science knowledge. Data science is the stream where people have both math and computer science knowledge...
November 8, 2019
My coding journey began with very little experience and as a result, I wasn’t sure whether Python was a good programming language or not to begin learning. I started coding in 10th grade, and it was the first time that I was introduced to Python. After a year, I started working with Java and then...
September 27, 2019
It’s always good to have different hobbies and interests opposite to your career, as those interests will help you understand yourself more and give you a better scope to grow in life. My hobby was always watching movies, I’ve loved them from a young age. Now you might ask, how did movies help me grow in my career or outside my career? I started telling stories in seventh grade and fell in love with creating them in ninth grade. I always enjoyed creating characters and multiple scenarios for every situation. After several years of writing short fictional stories ...
September 20, 2019
Speech, speaking, speaker: these were few of the words that excited me the most since the 5th grade. I was taking pictures and videos for my school’s graduating class during my freshman year, and I was amazed by people speaking so confidently during the commencement. Right from the day I saw those speeches, I wanted...
September 13, 2019
Three weeks into freshman year here at UIC, and I can already say with much confidence, that I’ve learned a lot. I’ve met people from all over the world, and faced a few challenges, but I know that this is just the beginning. When I was in high school, many people used to say that...
August 30, 2019
College is a huge step in many people’s lives. I recently started my college at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I was thinking about one word that would describe my first day of college and that one word is overwhelming. I felt as if I was starting a brand new life all over from...
August 23, 2019
Thank you for the wonderful response for last week’s article. This is a continuation of last week’s article. If you didn’t read part 1, please go back and read the part 1. If you have already completed reading part 1, continue reading this. Everyone is not you, it is really weird that we expect everyone to do the same amount of work that we do. Let them be themselves and work for you. Develop your skills simultaneously, it is really hard to spare time...
August 16, 2019
It seems as though the world is in a large search for leaders nowadays. Whether you try out for a team, apply for a job, or look for colleges, it looks like everybody wants “a leader.” So what constitutes a leader? What makes these leaders so desirable in every situation? For many years, people called me a leader, and though I didn’t understand what it was about me that made me a leader; I thought nothing of it, and continued on accepting the title; allowing it to slightly raise my self-confidence. But in my Junior year of high school...
August 9, 2019
At the beginning of high school, everyone has a set of expectations for themselves in the new journey that they’re about to start. When I stepped in to high school for the first time, I also had a lot of expectations for myself for the years to come. I wanted to build robots, I wanted to be well recognized, and become the best speechwriter and speaker in the entire school. I went to a large high school, with over 2800...
August 2, 2019
Starting life as a freshman all over again after four great years of high school is never easy. We all are adjusted to our school schedules, regular hangouts, sports, practices, extracurricular and all the lovely people who made going to school every day worth it. But in order to move forth in life, and take our very first steps in adulthood, we will have to make many adjustments, and let go of a few of the most memorable aspects of our high school lives. If you want to enjoy your next four years, you need a ...
July 26, 2019
“Time is of the essence.” A quote we’ve all heard, and all probably dreaded at one point or another. Until I was a freshman in high school, I didn’t need to be reminded of this phrase to get through life. I would just sleep for eight hours, eat on time, and finish the minimal work I had. Then I entered high school. A whole new world of opportunities. With over 120 clubs in my school, half of which I was interested in, and too good to resist offers like being part of student board and exploring...


Poets and poetry lovers-join the Arospec Poetry Network! You can create, share, and enjoy romance free poetry. Joining is simple- you can find instructions here. The network was started and is run by tumblr user astrangershandwriting. The network is open to anyone on the arospec, and many of the poems on here were discovered using the network. If you like our poetry collection, check it out!
Join Now!fear -it’s a sin,
we don’t talk about it.
i don’t let it show:
how much i fear
everything,
everyone.
i keep my mouth
closed.
heart: closed.
eyes: closed.
i breathe
-softly, silently-
without words.
love -i don’t own it,
not a single piece of it.
as far as i can reach
i only feel
ashes
cold ashes-
the attempt to burn every desire.
words -wild things,
like beasts, they bite
at my fragile pride.
i do not sleep
in peace.
by tumblr user phormaldehyde, found here
I am what I am,
And you can try to change me,
And you can try to hold me,
But I am what I am,
And you cannot change me.
The moon, the stars, the trees,
Your face, your hopes, your dreams,
All are reflected in me,
But I twist and change them
Until they become my own.
On the surface you see these things,
These reflections,
But truly I am opaque.
You cannot see through me,
And you cannot see the true me.
You cannot roughly catch me
With a rope or net,
But maybe if you try gently,
You may hold me as your own
Or I’ll slip through the cracks.
I change my color each day,
Just as I change my mood.
And you may one day fear me,
The next entranced by my depths
Or yearn to find out more of what is hidden from you.
Another world lives within me,
At once so hard to see
Yet infinitely more real than the one
In which you reside,
At least it is that way to me.
You may pass me by,
Unavoidable yet unnoticed,
Or say you’ll come again,
When you do not have better things to do.
I don’t believe you when you say this,
For they never do.
by tumblr user swirling--worlds, found here
I used to collect them.
Greens, blues, pinks, yellows
I wrote down small things on them,
They laid scattered across my desk,
Bunching on the floor.
Simple, pointless words, yet
I hoarded them.
by tumblr user joyfuljennyberry, found here
Forgiveness is radical,
But forgiveness is cruel.
Forgiveness is licking your wounds clean
And saying : look-
At least I have something to drink.
Forgiveness is saying : you hurt me,
But I have more scars
Self-inflicted,
Know their phantom promises
And have the heart to spare you.
If I hold on to this body
As a fury & god of vengeance
It will never be but a tomb.
I have to learn forgiveness
Of both you & me & my pain
If I want anything
To grow inside of me.
I forgive you ; it has nothing to do with you.

When a fairytale prince travelled far and wide,
He searched for his lady but all he found,
Was ashes on the ground.
I’ll tell you a story of once upon a time,
When to a fairytale forest water was denied,
The leaves shrivelled and withered where they hung,
And a lament of life was sung.
I’ll tell you a story of once upon a time,
When a fairytale horse his master could not find,
He wandered through wasteland and never returned,
But centuries later they found his bones.

I’ll tell you a story of once upon a time,
When a fairytale witch felt pain and cried,
She fled to the forest from us to hide,
And her red blood flowed til the day she died.
I’ll tell you a story of once upon a time,
When a fairytale watcher felt so inclined,
To weave a tale where all was well,
But his words damned the witch to Hell.
I’ll tell you a story of once upon a time,
When a fairytale reader their laws defined,
And because they never knew to mourn,
Our happy ever after was born.
by poemsfromthewindow, found here


Created by Satish S / @satish28888
Duration 1 hour
Note: Hints will be provided based on certain conditions
Find the following Bugs in pfsense
OR
Cross Site Scripting attacks are type of Injection attacks, where an attacker places malicious code usually javasscript in location where user can see. {Ex: Froms}
Trusting user input, and using user input to modify the application or reflecting the user input in the application
Session fixation occurs when the application does not change the SessionID for an user post login.
As the name suggests the attacker tries to guess the username and password of a user.
Some of the password cracking methods are
As the name suggests we will be targetting the Web server which is running the application.
Successfully Targetting Web Servers provides more benefits for an attacker. Web applications are different, they run different logic and have different security protection in place.
Whereas Web Servers which are mostly developed by 3rd party companies have more or less the same security measures.
For Ex: An attacker finds a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Apache 2.4.6. An attacker can use this knowledge to target all web applications running Apache 2.4.6 which might be in 1000's.
Manual exploitation is more time consuming where the attacker has to understand how the application handles the requests, reverse engineer them and find a loophole which causes the server to some arbitray damage.
Perform actions on the user's account without the user's consent


My name is Nathan Harker. I live in Provo, Utah and am a senior at Brigham Young University. I am an Information Systems major in the Marriott School of Business and I will be starting an integrated Master of Information System Management program at BYU in the fall. Upon graduating from college, I will pursue a career in technology consulting and maybe later a career in machine learning or data analytics. I love playing all kinds of sports, but especially tennis and basketball. I am also an avid fan of the Boston Celtics and the Seattle Seahawks. I love to be outside, exercise, go on hikes, and travel as much as I can. I got married to the love of my life over two years ago and through careful budgeting, my wife and I have been able to visit Mexico, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Hawaii.