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I Applied to 40 Cybersecurity Jobs With No Experience — Here's What Actually Got Responses By Amardeep Maroli  |  June 17, 2026  |  Cybersecurity Career, Job Search, Freshers India  |  16 min read Home About Contact The most common advice for getting your first cybersecurity job is: "get certified, build a portfolio, apply widely." That advice is true but incomplete — it doesn't tell you which certifications matter to which employers, what a portfolio actually needs to contain to generate responses, or how to frame zero work experience in a way that hiring managers don't immediately filter out. I found out the hard way, over 40 job applications. I'm going to share the exact data: which applications got responses, which didn't, what the difference was, and what I'd do differently if I were starting the process again tomorrow. I'm still a student — this is an ongoing proce...

The Dark Side of Public WiFi — I Ran Tests at 3 Cafés in Kerala and Here's What I Found By Amardeep Maroli  |  May 22, 2026  |  WiFi Security, Personal Security, Network Security  |  14 min read Home About Contact I am going to be precise about what I did and what I didn't do, because this is a topic where the line between security research and illegal activity is clearly defined and important. From practical network security testing at 3 real locations, here's what I discovered about public WiFi vulnerabilities I did not intercept, capture, or read anyone else's traffic. I did not perform any attacks. What I observed — the network configuration, the SSID broadcast details, the channel congestion, and the behaviour of devices around me — told me a significant amount about the security posture of those networks, without touching anyone else's data. That is what this post is about:...

I Built a Hacking Home Lab for ₹0 — Here's Exactly What I Set Up and How By Amardeep Maroli  |  May 20, 2026  |  Home Lab, Ethical Hacking, Beginner Setup  |  17 min read Home About Contact Six months ago, I was stuck. I had been doing TryHackMe labs and reading PortSwigger theory, but I wanted something more — a space I fully controlled, where I could practice attack techniques, break things completely, and learn from the mess without worrying about someone else's lab timing out or a platform going down. Here's the exact setup for a complete ethical hacking home lab without spending money, based on practical testing. So I spent a week figuring out how to build a complete ethical hacking home lab on my existing laptop — a 2019 HP with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD, which is about as average a student laptop as exists — using only free, open-source software. I'm going to walk you through...

I Spent 3 Months on Bug Bounty — Here's What I Actually Earned and Learned By Amardeep Maroli  |  May 18, 2026  |  Bug Bounty, Ethical Hacking, Career  |  16 min read Home About Contact Every bug bounty success story you'll find online has the same structure: person starts bug bounty, finds critical vulnerability, earns thousands of dollars, quits their job. These stories are real — but they represent roughly the top 1% of participants. Nobody writes about the first three months. I'm going to write about my first three months. Not because it's a success story — the earnings are modest and I'll give you the exact numbers — but because an honest account of what early bug bounty hunting actually looks like is more useful to most people than another interview with a full-time researcher earning $300,000 a year. I started bug bounty hunting while studying cybersecurity through PortSwi...