Welcome to IslandDog
My name is Chris and I am a Jack of all Trades, technophile with a special focus on cybersecurity and cloud solutions. I am originally from Toronto, Ontario, and currently living in the Cayman Islands.
Technical Solutions
Below are just some of the vendors and technologies I've worked with, implemented or maintained.






























“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
Albert Einstein
Theoretical physicist
Creative Solutions
Below are some of the website platforms and solutions I've created primarily utilizing WordPress as a framework.
IslandDog Thoughts:
My blog which covers new technology, my life, HTB guides and more!
PwnBox & Kali
Using theGuildHall - pwnbox and xct - kali-clean to create a more personalized and optimized environment well still keeping that pwnbox look and feel.
HTB – Knife
Knife is an Easy box from HTB and created by MrKN16H. This box features a PHP and chef based exploit.
HTB – Love
Love is an Easy box from HTB and created by pwnmeow. This box features subdomain lookups and AlwaysInstallElevated privesc.
HTB – TheNotebook
TheNotebook is an Medium box from HTB and created by mostwanted002. This box features a CSRF exploit via JWT and a docker exploit.
HTB – Armageddon
Armageddon is an Easy box from HTB and created by bertolis. This box features the widely known Drupalgeddon exploit and a DirtySock escalation.
HTB – Spectra
Spectra is an Easy box from HTB and created by egre55. This box features a poorly configured WordPress dev environment and initctl escalation.
HTB – Tenet
Delivery is a Medium Apache web-server box running WordPress with a unserialize PHP exploit from Hack the Box and created by egotisticalSW.
HTB – Delivery
Delivery is a Easy 'Real World' style box from HTB and created by IPPSEC. It showcases problems in Help-desk systems and password reuse.
HTB – Ready
Ready is a Medium 'CTF' style box from HTB and created by bertolis. It showcases problems in GitLab community edition and escaping docker vms.