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How Vim Can Make a Hacker’s Life Easier with Macros and Registers

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0530

How Vim Can Make a Hacker’s Life Easier with Macros and Registers

Why Every Hacker Should Master Vim Macros and Registers

If you’re deep into hacking, pentesting, or security research, you know that automation is key. Repetitive tasks like manipulating payloads, encoding/decoding strings, or tweaking shell scripts can become tedious. Enter Vim macros and registers! These powerful features let you record and replay keystrokes, making your workflow insanely efficient.

No that I dont use IDE’s the likes of Visual Studio code (sometimes I do). However they can never match the raw power of vi/vim/nvim or any of the vim family of editors. To reap the maximum benefit, you have to learn the basics of using the editor in normal mode ( which is by the not the editing mode).

Hackernews In Your Inbox

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0530

If you do not want to subscribe to any newsletter but still want to get some news delivered to you inbox then this post is for you.

First you need to get a script that can pull the hacker-news articles for you and you can find my script here. You can modify this script, specially the line: for id in trending_list[:50]: to change the number of posts that you would like to see in the mail.

Preparation and Review of eMAPT (INE security FKA eLearnSecurity Mobile Application Penetration Tester

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0530

I started thinking about Mobile pentesting sometime back. Finally in Feb/2024, I paid for the yearly subscription for INE and added eMAPT to my cart. If you dont know about eMAPT cert, then head over to eMAPT certification. And as per their home page

The Mobile Application Penetration Tester (eMAPT) certification is issued to cyber security experts that display advanced mobile application security knowledge through a scenario-based exam.

And on Apr/05/2024, I got My Certificate.

Firefox addons for hacking

Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0530

#Firefox addons

Here are some good and useful addons for hacking. I have mentioned some old addons which are quire good but not to be found on firefox addon site :(