I Watched a Hacker Try To Break Into My Server, Here's What Happened.

This was a small experiment intended to help me see how dangerous the internet is. And it's pretty dangerous.

As a full stack engineer, I work with servers and cloud services ALOT. Especially at this startup that’s constantly trying out new things. As a developer working in various system architectures, I wanted to see and understand how systems get hacked while do so in a safe sandbox environment.

Understanding cloud security concepts and the dangers that exists is imperative when protecting enterprise systems containing sensitive data.

I decided to do some research to understand how systems get hacked in a cloud ecosystem. This project is also entertainment for me because I plan to troll these hackers a lot.

Making them work super hard just to find a database full of dad jokes is just plain funny.

The good thing about this is that the more time they spend trying to break into my server the less time they’ll spend messing with someone else’s…like the server that contains your family’s medical records.

I staged a Honey Pot server and I’m building it to make it look like it belongs to some healthcare or financial organization.