Jan 12, 2022A recommended resilient and scalable Elasticsearch data indexing architecture — Part 2In the first part of this 2-part series on an architecture for your Elasticsearch data indexing pipeline, I gave a short background and introduction. If you’ve not read part 1, you can do so here. As a continuation, we’ll be discussing the proposed architecture in detail, the benefits and complication…Elasticsearch4 min readElasticsearch4 min read
Jan 3, 2022HTX Investigators’ Challenge (HTXIC) CTF Write-UpHTX Investigators’ Challenge (HTXIC) is a Capture-The-Flag (CTF) competition organised by the Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX). The premise of the challenge involves having challengers play detectives for a day to investigate and stop a terrorist attack targeting the F1 Grand Prix in Singapore. …Capture The Flag8 min readCapture The Flag8 min read
Nov 26, 2021A recommended resilient and scalable Elasticsearch data indexing architecture — Part 1In this 2-part story, I’ll be introducing an architecture for your Elasticsearch data indexing pipeline. This architecture will be especially useful if you need some kind of full-text search on your data and would like to leverage on specialised full-text search engines like Elasticsearch. Outline This post is written with the…Elasticsearch7 min readElasticsearch7 min read
Nov 23, 2021Hovering on links to see where it leads? It’s not as safe as you think.It’s the dreadful Monday again, you pull yourself to your computer and open your email. Ding, comes a new email from what appears to be from your bank, telling you your account is compromised and requires your immediate attention. …Cybersecurity4 min readCybersecurity4 min read
