$> cat about.txt
Hello! EthicalHackers.club is a personal blog/site of Ameer Pornillos, a cyber security enthusiast from Philippines. He’ll be using this site to share contents related to ethical hacking, penetration testing, digital forensics and anything related to cyber security.
The Ethical Hackers Club initially served as the team name when he began actively participating in CTFs (Capture the Flag) security competitions back in 2016. Although the site/domain is named after this team, it is operated solely by an individual.
At present, the author works as a Principal Offensive Security Engineer specializing in infrastruture and network penetration testing for a Fortune 500 company and holds various certifications in security industry such as OSCE, OSWE, OSCP and GXPN. He is also a member of hackstreetboys, a CTF team from the Philippines. Way back 2021, the team did managed to grab the 3rd place in DEFCON 29: Red Team Village CTF where various cybersecurity challenges related to red teaming need to be solved.
$> cat life.txt | grep $Security_Achievements -A 50
Security Certifications
- 2023 - NotSoSecure Advanced Web Hacking
- 2022 - SANS GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
- 2020 - Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE)
- 2018 - Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)
- 2016 - Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
Security Related Competitions
- 2021 - 3rd place DEFCON Red Team Village CTF (with hackstreetboys)
- 2021 - 3rd place HackTheBox 3rd Battlegrounds Tournament (with AJ)
- 2021 - 2nd place HackTheBox 2nd Battlegrounds Tournament
- 2020 - 2nd place SINCON Wonderland CTF by Pentester Academy
- 2020 - Top Player per Rank (Guru), HackTheBox 1st Battlegrounds Tournament
- 2020 - DEFCON HACK-A-SAT Space Security Challenge 2020 Finalist (played for ADDVulcan)
- 2019 - 1st place ROOTCON 13 Hacking Conference CTF ([hsb] Team G3) (with AJ and Nathu)
- 2018 - 2nd place ROOTCON 12 Hacking Conference CTF (Ethical Hackers Club) (with AJ and Nathu)
- 2017 - 1st place ROOTCON 11 Hacking Conference CTF (Ethical Hackers Club) (with Elvin and Shav)
Probably nothing, but here are some CTFtime.org stats. The author mostly played solo over the years, but when a team was needed, he played with his friends at hackstreetboys.
- 2023 - #1 Philippines (CTFtime.org)
- 2021 - #1 Philippines (CTFtime.org)
- 2020 - #2 Philippines (CTFtime.org)
- 2019 - #1 Philippines (with hackstreetboys) (CTFtime.org)
- 2018 - #1 Philippines (with hackstreetboys) (CTFtime.org)
- 2017 - #1 Philippines (CTFtime.org)
- 2016 - #2 Philippines (CTFtime.org)
Disclosed Vulnerabilities/CVEs
- 2018 - CVE‑2018‑19246
- 2018 - CVE‑2018‑19135
$> cat disclaimer.txt
All information provided here is for educational purposes only. Please note that the content of this site is based on the author’s personal learning and experience.
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