Pentesting on Arsh Imtiaz

When Red Teaming Meets Car Hacking: Building a Virtual Vehicle Pentest Lab on My Laptop

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

How does one emulate cars at home?

Every car hacking tool I have come across required expensive ECUs, adapters or even full test benches. Having worked with test cars before, I got an insight into how time consuming and expensive, if not difficult it is to set a working HIL (Hardware-In-Loop) setup. I didn’t want to wait for hardware to understand how automotive networks behave - I wanted to simulate it.

My First Wi-Fi Pentest

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100

My First Wi-Fi Pentest

There’s a massive difference between watching pentesting videos and actually doing it. This was my first time seriously trying Wi-Fi pentesting, and it was a mix of pure excitement, a bunch of silly mistakes, and that one moment of “YES! It finally worked.”

Disclaimer: This is just my story, not a tutorial. Everything I did was on my own network. Don’t go around trying this on random Wi-Fi unless you like the idea of explaining yourself to law enforcement.