Ahmed Musaad

Semgrep, A SAST Tool

I came upon Semgrep while doing a code review and was seriously impressed by the ease of use, language support, and community rule sets. If you are looking for a decent open source SAST tool to aid your code reviews, look no further.

1 min read Jun 16, 2021

Challenge public

DumpMe Challenge

Ahmed Musaad

It's been a while since I last solved one of the CyberDefenders challenges so when I saw they published a new forensics challenge I had to jump on it and learn new stuff. Here is a rough write-up of how I worked my way through it.

3 min read Jun 4, 2021

AWS public

AWS Certified Security Speciality

Ahmed Musaad

I have been learning about AWS and its security services for about a year or so and last week I took the security speciality exam in an attempt to validate my knowledge on the topic and also more of a personal challenge.

3 min read May 1, 2021

AWS public

My First AWS GameDay

Ahmed Musaad

AWS Game Day is by all counts a highly informative, enjoyable, and challenging game. I learned a lot, had my skills challenged, and most-importantly had fun working with my teammates under the pressure of limited time. If you want to learn more about AWS services, this is a fun way of doing that.

2 min read Apr 22, 2021

Personal public

I Hate Hot Weather

Ahmed Musaad

Sitting in my living room, taking a break from studying for an upcoming AWS exam and writing this blog post to rant about how much I hate hot weather which isn't exactly an informative topic but hey, that's what rants are for, aren't they?

2 min read Apr 20, 2021

HOWTOs public

Extract All Senders From Apple Mail

Ahmed Musaad

Trying to get a list of all email addresses that sent you emails since you created your email address? Well, it's your lucky day, this tip might save you few minutes if you use macOS and the default Mail app.

1 min read Apr 16, 2021

Personal public

What is it like to live in Scandinavian countries?

Ahmed Musaad

I wrote this answer on Quora back in 2017, a year after moving to Northern Sweden. I share some of my initial shocks, struggles and happy surprises about my - back then - new life. Hopefully, you will find this post useful or failing that, amusing.

4 min read Apr 2, 2021

Tools public

Cortex vs. IntelOwl

Ahmed Musaad

Both Cortex and IntelOwl are awesome tools for observable analysis, I wanted to learn a bit about both of them and what better way to do that than trying both tools and writing a comparison of them?

5 min read Mar 24, 2021

Short public

Making My Home Slightly Smarter

Ahmed Musaad

I have been working from home for the better part of last year, and it was starting to get on my nerves. I needed some new shinty object to distract me from the current depressing reality, and what's more shiny than a light that can change it colours following the music playing on your phone?

4 min read Mar 23, 2021

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Why Sweden?

Ahmed Musaad

I have to admit that I gave different answers to this question depending on the person asking. In this post, I will try to summarize my answer to this question and hopefully shed some light on what made me want to live through these crazy winters.

5 min read Mar 22, 2021

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New Blog Theme

Ahmed Musaad

I have been contemplating the idea of updating the theme of this blog for some time now but never got the chance to get around to it, well today I did, and you are reading this post in the new improved design.

1 min read Mar 22, 2021

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The Secret We Share

Ahmed Musaad

Andrew Solomon opened his famous Ted talk by reciting a poem written by Emily Dickinson and for some reason it stuck with me since the first time I heard it. If you have some time, watch the full talk, you won't regret it.

1 min read Feb 14, 2021