Ahmed Musaad

I am a senior security engineer, a programmer, and a hobbyist system administrator. I enjoy learning new things, solving challenging problems and writing about things I find interesting.

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Weekend Learning (1)

Ahmed Musaad

Recently, Microsoft published a great set of short video courses covering different topics within the .NET ecosystem, If you are interested in learning .NET, these might be a great place to start.

1 min read Sep 29, 2019

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I was standing at the checkout lane at Clas Ohlsen, patiently waiting for my turn to pay for something I picked. I started fiddling with my phone and that's when it dawned on me, why not try the Apple Pay and see if it's as simple as Apple claims it is.

2 min read Sep 26, 2019

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DoH with Firefox and dnswarden

Ahmed Musaad

Disclaimer: DoH with ad-blocking won’t block 100% of the ads. A week ago, Mozilla published a blog post outlining…

3 min read Sep 14, 2019

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Monitoring NVD Feeds using NVD-Alerts

Ahmed Musaad

Part of my daily job is to keep an eye on new vulnerabilities and part of that is sifting through the NIST NVD feeds which can be exhausting and time-consuming as they contain a lot of information that might not be relevant to our work at all so I wrote a script to help me do this faster.

2 min read Aug 7, 2019

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GitHub Student Developer Pack

Ahmed Musaad

If you are a computer science student, this pack is an excellent resource for you. It will give you a fantastic set of tools and resources that will make your life easier, and you don't have to pay anything to take advantage of those benefits, so what are you waiting for?

2 min read Jul 3, 2018

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GISEC 2016 Presentations

Ahmed Musaad

The Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC) is the Middle East’s largest annual ICT event attracting top industry professionals including CIOs, CTOs, CSOs and senior management from key industries including finance, energy, telecoms, government sectors and IT.

1 min read Jul 16, 2016

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Microsoft TechNet Live Labs

Ahmed Musaad

TechNet Live Labs are a set of virtual hands-on labs that allow everyone to experience and train on Microsoft products and technologies. You can follow guided tutorials or just wander through the environment as you like.

1 min read Nov 15, 2015

Ahmed Musaad

Weekend Learning (1)

Trying Apple Pay

DoH with Firefox and dnswarden

Monitoring NVD Feeds using NVD-Alerts

GitHub Student Developer Pack

GISEC 2016 Presentations

Microsoft TechNet Live Labs