YGN Ethical Hacker Group Blog

The year of 2020 has proven the booming of Cybersecurity/ Ethical Hacking/ Bounty Hunting young talents in Myanmar.  YEHG is wholeheartedly proud to feature an awesome young cybersecurity talent, Hein Thant Zin. ______________________________   > A little bit about yourself Just another guy who’d love to find some random loopholes in Web Application and REST API. > What made you become obsessed with bug bounty? I passionate learning about Web Application vulnerabilities last year and wanted to make some profit from my experience so I decided to do Bug Bounty since then. > Please share how you achieved something you're personally most proud of? I built up Team 0xpwn with my two mates to participate in Myanmar Cyber Security Challenge 2019 and we won First Prize in both University level and Open Level.  Later, I participated in ASEAN Cyber Sea Game 2019 (Bangkok) and ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security 2019 ( Hanoi ) represented by Myanmar Team then I ...

Cybersecurity/ Ethical Hacking/ Bounty Hunting have been capturing the hearts of young talents in Myanmar.  YEHG is wholeheartedly proud to feature a  cybersecurity talent, Chan Nyein Wai. ______________________________        1. A little bit about yourself I am the one who interested about cyber security and technology.I like helping people , company and want  to make the internet a safer place. My name is Chan Nyein Wai. I am 19 years old and I am currently working as an associate in BIM Cybersecurity.  I am also learning Chinese language for Bachelor Degree in YUFL as 3rd year student.   2. What made you become obsessed with Cyber Security? I always interested in technology since I was young.When I started learning about cyber security , I wasted a lot of time on only one vulnerability like SQL injection. At first, I was doing it for fun but a small piece of advice from my friends changed my career. 3. Please share how you achieved fant...

  Cybersecurity/ Ethical Hacking/ Bounty Hunting have been capturing the hearts of young talents in Myanmar.  Today, YEHG is wholeheartedly proud to feature a  cybersecurity talent, Nay Myat Min. ______________________________   1. A little bit about yourself I am Nay Myat Min, a master’s student of Cyber Security at Mahidol University. I am currently working as an assistant manager at BIM Cybersecurity and Consulting. 2. What made you become obsessed with Cyber Security? It is almost magical how previous inventors created, and the security researchers found ways to overcome their obstacles. I wish to be someone like them who masters his craft,. I desire to understand in-depth how things work. Also, I am curious about how they react when approached in unintended ways, and I wish to investigate them systematically. 3. Please share how you achieved fantastic achievements. During my final year as a Network Engineering student, I received a Cisco scholarship for Cyber...

Cybersecurity/ Ethical Hacking/ Bounty Hunting have been capturing the hearts of young talents in Myanmar.  Today, YEHG is wholeheartedly proud to feature a  cybersecurity talent, Nay Min Htet . ______________________________   1. A little bit about yourself My name is Nay Min Htet, and I am working as a Cyber Security Specialist. I love exploring systems to gain a better understanding of how they operate, and how security loopholes in the systems can be exploited. I currently hold OSCP, CREST CRT and CPSA certifications. 2. What made you become obsessed with Cybersecurity? Curiosity has always been a driving force since I took up Cybersecurity. I stumbled upon web application flaws such as SQLi and XSS a few years ago. I couldn't help but wonder why it happened, and wanted to find out about it. So yes, it all started with a single quote ('). 3. Please share how you achieved OSCP. There are lots of articles out there mentioning how one should prepare for the OSCP cert....

Cybersecurity/ Ethical Hacking/ Bounty Hunting have been capturing the hearts of young talents in Myanmar.  This time, YEHG is wholeheartedly proud to feature a youngest known-to-date 17-year old cybersecurity talent, Kaung Myat Min .  ______________________________       1. A little bit about yourself.  I am just somebody who enjoys developing things and then breaking them. Sometimes I just break them though. People know me as Kaung Myat Min and I’m currently working as an Associate in BIM Cybersecurity. At the time of writing this, I am 17 years old.     2. What made you become so obsessed with Cybersecurity?  I didn’t get into cybersecurity until recently (1-2 years ago), however, I’ve always been obsessed with thinking outside of the box, learning new things and technology. I started my path towards cybersecurity through configuring routers and switches. After countless hours of researching and writing hundreds of projects on net...

    Cybersecurity/ Ethical Hacking/ Bounty Hunting have been capturing the hearts of young talents in Myanmar.  This month, YEHG is wholeheartedly proud to feature a young cybersecurity talent, Hein Htet Aung . _______________________________________   1) A little bit about yourself I'm Hein Htet Aung, 22 years old and currently working as Associate Security Specialist in Yoma Bank. I've graduated from University of Computer Studies,Magway. In 2016,I start dived into Cyber Security Career. 2) What made you become obsessed with Cyber Security? Actually, I started from "I want to be a hacker. How to become a Hacker?". I followed some of  these articles and become obsessed with Cyber Security. It's kind of funny. 3) Please share how you achieved OSCP certification / any recent certification if any. All certificates are to challenge myself about how I've practiced and how I've learned. Before I go for OSCP , I practiced at Hack The Box and Try Hack Me under th...

1) A little bit about yourself I am Kaung Htet Aung. I explore weirdness in systems to surface security bugs for living. 2) What made you become obsessed with Cyber Security? I regard hacking as an art and this is generally how it's portrayed by many others as well if you reminisce about the past. As such my curiosity has always been onto exploring the process to be well versed in said art and addiction follows suit. Also, I genuinely love the adrenaline rush that occurs afterwards once a complexity has been broken into digestible pieces and allow me to break assumptions. 3) Please share how you achieved certain achievements? I am afraid this could become a long and dull post if I were to write "how" part in detail. Nonetheless, here is an abstract. To be frank, dedication and passion have been a strong driving force behind all my achievements thus far, be it in CTF competitions or Bug Bounty. I burned all my free time on CTF challenges and...

1) A bit about yourself I am Steve Nyan Lin, currently working as a Security Consultant in Singapore, and have been staying here since my secondary schooling days. When I am not working, I like to play chess, watch football and listen to music. I currently hold a Bachelor in Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University. 2) What made you obsessed with Cybersecurity? I was first exposed to the penetration testing role during an internship role in university days. Before that, I had no idea about the concept of cybersecurity, the roles available in this field and how to go about becoming a cybersecurity professional. Even though I was not studying anything IT related during my schooling days, I felt passionate about pursuing a career in cybersecurity when I step into the working phase. To prepare myself before graduating, I have pursued and successfully attained CCNA Routing and Switching, CCNA Cyber Ops and CompTIA Security+. Even tho...

  1) A little bit about yourself I am Aung Kyaw Phyo, graduated from University of Computer Studies, Yangon(UCSY). Currently, I am working as an Assoc Cyber Security Analyst in Kernellix.   2) What made you become obsessed with Cyber Security? I am interested in finding out the ways how can I intrude and bypass targets, learning how other guys find and exploit vulnerabilities and solving challenges. These mindsets make me become a Cyber Security Analyst.   3) Please share how you achieved OSCP certification / any recent certification if any. In a student life, I thought that I should challenge myself to work as Cyber Security penetration tester after student life. I found out that OSCP is one of the recommended industrial certificates among security professionals and the best entry-level certificate for penetration testing field. So, I decided to take OSCP to get an eligible place. But at this time, I confused about how to start and lost my ways. ...

1) A bit about yourself Everyone call me Ethan. I am just one of the Cyber Security Enthusiastics like others. 2) What made you become obsessed with CyberSecurity? I have been interesting in Cyber Security (Defensive) since I was young. I only interested how to secure my systems and network even when everyone was talking about the programming. My interest was getting stronger when I found out what I could do with the registry in Windows XP. I still remember that I was having fun to use bootable CD and reset the admin password and other students' passwords when I was in Systems Engineer class. Unfortunately, I  couldn't have a chance to pursue my interest a lot as resources were not be found as easily as they are right now back in 2005-2008. 3) Please share how you achieved OSCP certification / any recent certification if any. If you are looking for an inspiration story, you won’t find it here because I just don’t have it. But if you are looking why did I take a...

This time, we reached out to Ko Sai Tin Htun Naing for sharing how he managed to get on to his long-desired security career. ------- My name is Sai Tin Htun Naing and formerly known as Infofreakz by the handle. I started my IT career in 2002 as a Web Designer. I then worked as a  Web Developer and  System Administrator. Currently, I’m working as a Penetration Tester. Over a decade ago, I was working as a web developer when I started to notice the term “Hacking”. Then, I was really curious about this term, “Hacking” (We used this term at that time) and started to study about the Web Hacking. But unfortunately, I was not able to follow my hobbies anymore due to several situations and need to hunt the money for several years and then, resulting me to keep away from the security field. In 2017, I decided to switch my career as a Pentester and then, I noticed that I need proof that I’m eligible to get a place in this field. I noticed that the best way is to get a profes...

Cybersecurity Career Pathway: https://www.facebook.com/365902044065917/posts/515004779155642/?d=n     Pentester Career Path: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1157846244630106&ref=watch_permalink   We're confident that this session will ignite the interests of many talents and emergence of next-generation Cyber Security professionals in Myanmar.