Maverick Kaung

IT Security Enthusiast

Biography

Ye Myat “Maverick” Kaung is a highly motivated individual with a passion for security and open source software. Also an aspiring hacker and software engineer.

Interests

Threat Detection/Hunting
Cyber Security
Secure Coding
Free/Libre open source software
Privacy
Empowering people with technology

Education

BSc in Information Technology, 2014

Staffordshire University
BSc in Information Technology, 2014

Asia Pacific University of Technology

Recent Posts

First time experience with Atomic Red Team

The author’s experience using Atomic Red Team for the first time inside a closed off domain-joined lab.

Last updated on Sat, Nov 20, 2021 6 min read

First time experience with Atomic Red Team

YAML linting and schema validation

Author could not use Sigma (a generic signature format for SIEM), so they came up with their own format. This post details that YAML linting and schema validation adventure.

Last updated on Wed, Sep 15, 2021 7 min read

Contributing to Kali Linux using toolbox on Fedora

A Fedora user uses toolbox container to contribute a patch to Kali Linux package.

Last updated on Tue, Nov 17, 2020 3 min read

Contributing to Kali Linux using toolbox on Fedora

2018 FLARE-On Challenges Writeup

I decided to participate in this year’s edition of FLARE-On challenge. It is made by the fine folks from FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering (FLARE) team. I wanted to see how far I could go.

Last updated on Sun, Nov 15, 2020 2 min read

Swap Control and Caps Lock on Windows

Whenever I finish installing a fresh operating system, be it Windows or a Linux distribution, I always remap ctrl and caps lock on my keyboard. As I use the Control key a lot more than Caps Lock, I like having the former on the same line as my home row keys.

Last updated on Sat, Jul 4, 2020 2 min read

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Projects

goPwned

a go library for haveibeenpwned.com API

Disclaimer

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