An AI assistant can follow every instruction it was given and still help an attacker compromise the organisation.

Ollama + APIs: My First Real AI Integration

I have used AI tools before. But this post is about the first time I actually integrated AI into an app and felt the whole thing click.
Not just “ask a model a question.” I mean an API that uses a model and does something useful with it.

I finally sat down and built a machine learning model in Jupyter Notebook that actually does something cybersecurity related. Not a big fancy neural network. Not a GPT clone. Just a tiny password strength classifier that helped me understand the full ML pipeline without frying my brain.

This whole thing started because I kept telling myself I would learn ML one day. And one day never comes when you wait for the perfect idea. So I forced myself to build something so stupid simple that I couldn’t run away from it.

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.

So, you wanna be a hacker?

Cool. I did too. I jumped into Kali, sprayed tools, and followed tutorials like a robot. Things worked, but I could not explain why. That was my first big lesson: without networking, most of security looks like magic. No magic here. Just packets, addresses, ports, protocols and paths.

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.