🔨Productivity Tools for H@xors⛏

Productivity tools and “life hacks” to use as a cybersecurity enthusiast! Tools to manage credentials, take well organized notes, precise screenshots, and sync files. These things may sound mundane but they become the bread and butter of your computer work flow if you learn to make good use of them. Really these tools can apply to any profession that works a lot with computers.

Privilege escalation scripts and exploitation frameworks are important but what about the every day, “productivity” programs that make life easier for L33t H@xors? In my path as a cybersec professional there are a few tools I’ll share that are super handy but I don’t see enough of my friends using themselves. These are FOSS tools that I use everyday to help manage my sensitive data, record what I’m learning day-to-day, take quick screenshots and store important files across different computers:

• Password Manager (KeePassXC)
• Note taking (Joplin)
• Screenshots (Flameshot)
• Cloud storage and Syncing (Nextcloud)

KeePassXC

I find myself trying out a new online service or needing to store credentials for something new every other day. Frankly, I don’t know how folks without a password manager… manage(perhaps with some password reuse?). There are so many different accounts to keep track of, email accounts, blog accounts, financial and career related information.