#room-ideas

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native raptor
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How does that have anything to do with staying safe? ๐Ÿค”

tacit anvil
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staying safe from police kekw

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i mean realistically if you're doing a pentest, you'd try to do what a regular hacker might do to try and get away with the cybercrime

light lynx
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"DL/ML in depth" is not one room, if you are good at teaching you could get away with ~200k words ๐Ÿ˜›

tacit anvil
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so id love a room that would teach us about that

tacit anvil
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im playing around with openAI and gpt2

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luckily i have a demonic gpu so i can use them without an issue

light lynx
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You could make an ML room but you'd need some mathematics to go with it. For DL you'd need about 80% of the room to be mathematics ๐Ÿ˜†

tacit anvil
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still waiting for their new text-to-image model to be public

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i have a lot of AI courses on udemy kekw

full dove
lunar plank
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It's the same with networking, if your content breaks down that initial barrier of the whole maths/numbers behind it - you're onto a winner

light lynx
full dove
icy trellis
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They're not in the server anymore

spare snow
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I am thinking about making a AD labs on tryhackme like Throwback

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But, I have a issue that the Server 2019 or Server2016 evaluation is 180days

native raptor
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@spare snow
A) Networks are currently restricted to being commissioned by TryHackMe -- the most you can do is upload single AD boxes (e.g. a DC and nothing else)
B) You upload Windows boxes without a license. AWS handles the licensing automatically :)

sharp yacht
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Actually a discord room idea - can you please create #sh-help and #powershell-help ?

coral ravine
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I wouldn't see the point of having a powershell help channel

somber crow
left kestrel
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I'm making a room on SOCMINT (OSINT for social media intelligence), was wondering what people would prefer:
1๏ธโƒฃ - Walkthrough room with in-depth explanations on tools and methods.
2๏ธโƒฃ - CTF-style teaching the basics of tools/methods needed for the room and then giving you storyline-based challenges.

lucid quail
lucid quail
karmic raven
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You ever tried putting Windows in docker?

native raptor
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But only Linux

lucid quail
native raptor
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Making Windows containers can only be done using Windows, and Docker for Windows works on top of Hyper-V

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Which means nested virtualisation

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Which means seriously expensive

lucid quail
native raptor
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See above messages

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Believe me, we've considered this ๐Ÿ˜†

lucid quail
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lmao

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lol

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๐Ÿ˜‚

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i believe you

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@native raptor also i was curious that does the vms ( rooms) scale automatically or is there a specific limit on amount of resources / active development

native raptor
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Non-subs get 512Mb of RAM and 1 core. Subs get 1Gb of RAM and 2 cores.
Those are the defaults. Boxes can also be "bumped" to a higher tier individually. For example a lot of the DCs deploy with 4Gb of RAM and 4 cores (I think that's it for cores) across the board. That's an admin level decision though. Most Windows boxes can be boosted to 2Gb on request (i.e. if you're on good terms with the admins and ask nicely). Anything higher than that needs justification.

lucid quail
spare snow
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I am developing an AD room for tryhackme can somebody give me some domain name ideas.
I am thinking of amazon.thm
But, the name is nearly like a FAANG company..

karmic raven
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avoid using real company names typically so we donโ€™t get in trouble

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we can use pretty much anything .local, .com, .THM, etc

spare snow
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I was thinking about some rain forests name like borneo.thm

coral ravine
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That's not allowed

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Nope need to avoid anything covid

spare snow
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barbeque.thm is it okay

coral ravine
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Yea that should be ok

tribal jay
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Hey guys!

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Anyone knows how to do some Bluetooth hacking?

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It will be great if we had a tryhackme room for it

cedar echo
cedar echo
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aside from netowrk dumps

tough pasture
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does anyone want to work on a room with me?

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I've just been working through some advanced privesc on linux, and seen a very cool method

magic rune
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WAPT and WAPTX preparation

cunning thunder
magic rune
magic rune
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I'm guessing WAPT and WAPTX preparation rooms
with sufficient methodology practice and more on intentionally vulnerable web applications?

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like as a whole machine

magic rune
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing rooms

fervent hearth
somber crow
fervent hearth
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Need some help, My exploit seems stuck, anything am doing wrong?

tacit anvil
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Obfuscation/deobfuscation , how it works, how deobfuscation works.

native raptor
karmic raven
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Thatโ€™s just not how it works

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To my knowledge you canโ€™t do any kind of permissions like that

spare snow
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I am uploading a Windows Server 2019 machine but its showing an error converting VM check prerequisites

somber crow
spare snow
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Is it possible to like backup the server2019 configs using server manager and restoring it on a fresh install of server2019 on legacy boot...

somber crow
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I've added you to #creators-lounge where you can ask questions and discuss room creation

native raptor
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Done @honest bluff

storm canyon
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More roles? ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ‘ˆ

glad monolith
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Is there room about steganography?

fading oak
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several, is there something specific you are looking for

tacit anvil
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What vpc service you run?

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Or server

compact locust
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Working on a room re-submission after fixing feedback, could a mod be so kind as to drop me in the Creators Lounge ?

compact locust
spiral gull
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Iโ€™d love to see a few more rooms regarding sub domain enumeration.

karmic raven
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Sublister

autumn storm
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a room for getting started with king of the hill for begginers

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it will be very cool cause then we can get more people playing

karmic raven
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not really enough there to make a room IMO

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we already have a nice blog post on it

somber crow
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With foodctf you could automate some of it like the king tracking easily

spiral frigate
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Hey thm staff,
I just have a little query about my recent room submission i.e. Linux Modules. Let me know whom to talk to regarding this issue.
Thanks๐Ÿ˜‡

icy trellis
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What issue? And you probably want to talk to Tim.

spiral frigate
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Nm I just wanted to discuss about what else can I add, some suggestions... So uk.

icy trellis
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If you have submitted a room, the room testers will review it.

spiral frigate
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It's a walkthrough room... I added a few bits useful then I got rejected stating, "it's a great room, just add a little more to xxxxxx task"
I felt like there's not much I can add to that... I just wanna clarify what they meant in the feedback

icy trellis
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May I ask who submitted that feedback?

spiral frigate
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It's just written TryHackMe staff. Not a name... When I saw the room users... I kinda doubted that it must be someone named zmiller2020

icy trellis
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Uhh, lemme get Tim to review this. @cunning thunder when youโ€™re available would you be able to offer this user some assistance please? :)

spiral frigate
icy trellis
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No offence to the room testers but I do think โ€œadd more to x taskโ€ is very vague and unfair.

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Just want to make your life easier

spiral frigate
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๐Ÿ˜…well I think they mean it because they want the room to do get more education to others... I mean whatever it is... On the other side it will benefit the users doing that room

coral ravine
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@short latch ^^

short latch
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I just got off work, let me get settled in and I'll explain what I mean

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So these are both my comments, I want to apologize by not signing off on them, I'm really sorry for that. I absolutely love the additions you made to the room. My comment was particularly directed to the xargs section. The way you broke down a command with awk was phenomenal.

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@spiral frigate tagging you so you can see.

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As far as I see, you seem to have made additional changes to the room since my comments. I really, REALLY love this room and I feel that it being added to THM is a benefit and a net-positive to the site.

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I definitely want to apologize if I did not properly convey what I meant.

cunning thunder
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I see the room has been accepted, that's great news! @spiral frigate @short latch I'll have a look-over on the room today. The room overall looks very informative! ๐Ÿ‘

short latch
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Yeah its seriously a good one.

lunar sage
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jabba

spiral frigate
short latch
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Curious, is this your first room?

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Its well put together.

spiral frigate
short latch
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Well dang, if this is your first one I can't wait to see what else you create. You've got this. ๐Ÿ™‚

spiral frigate
spiral frigate
short latch
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Makes sense. Good luck on your exams.

spiral frigate
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Thanksโฃ๏ธ

sharp relic
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hi

coral ravine
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Hey

cedar echo
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Yo

icy trellis
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Done

tacit anvil
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Is there a Bug Hunters Methodology room ?

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Would love to have one xD

light lynx
tacit anvil
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Is he a YouTuber?

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@light lynx if you had to choose between Pentesting and Programming which would you choose ๐Ÿค”

light lynx
light lynx
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pentesting & programming are two subsets of computer science, i believe that it's all the same ๐Ÿ™‚

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programming is about creation, and writing algorithms. Pentesting is about exploiting those algorithms, it's the same but different ๐Ÿ˜„

tacit anvil
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I know that's where I'm stuck! I don't know which one to solely focus on

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Do I want to build my own apps and exploits or do I want to do the exploiting lol

somber crow
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Don't solely focus on either

native raptor
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Do both

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It's the only way you'll get better at either

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They're two sides of the same coin. A hacker who can't develop will never be more than mediocre. A developer who can't hack (or at least think like a hacker) will leave vulnerabilities lying around.

tacit anvil
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Sounds good thank u!!!

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I will continue on my Cyber Security path and pick up programming on the side.

light lynx
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whether you build, or you exploit -- you are learning the same skills

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just applied differently ๐Ÿ˜„

tacit anvil
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That last part you said just clarified it for me to it's entirety ๐Ÿ™‚

tidal apex
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Visual Basic room for maldoc analysis

coral ravine
cloud pebble
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anybody looking for an azure sentinel room? I'm starting to work on one. Entry level into how to configure it, with a potential to follow up with a room around kusto

lunar plank
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We have some SIEM tool-focused rooms in development rn but I can't see them being Azure Sentinel & Kusto

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They'd be super cool additions!

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Is there any chance a mod could add hackasaurus#3698 to #creators-lounge please? If you have any queries/concerns about the process or need anything extra from us as staff to get these rooms setup the best place to ask is there (:

Would love to see those rooms imho

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@languid ibex by any chance as you're online?

languid ibex
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sure

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give me a second

lunar plank
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thanks!!!!

languid ibex
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done

lunar plank
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โค๏ธ

odd lagoon
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Well, I would like to see in all rooms and/or in order tool the points which are reward!!! So, I will able to pick the most award rooms first if ranking it's my main objective! Regards, Ilias.

tacit anvil
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What cloud service rooms use?

cedar echo
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aws

somber crow
tacit anvil
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Sorry

tacit anvil
topaz marlin
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Is this the room that would be used to suggest improvements on current rooms?

somber crow
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Not really

topaz marlin
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its not really a bug though the room that im on has a lot of good information but approaches it from the end to beginnigng would that still go there?

somber crow
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Probably?

topaz marlin
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okay il try and see xD

rugged zinc
topaz marlin
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@rugged zinc yea its not really a big issue more that it would make it easy for others to learn in the future

fading oak
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can I get added to creators-lounge, working on a room and want to try to get some ideas for a priv escalation

native raptor
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Done

fading oak
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thanks

past wren
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Basics of OOP?

karmic raven
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Just remember that at itโ€™s core this is a cybersecurity site we need to tie everything into security somehow

sudden garnet
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and i oop

light lynx
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Oop you did it again.....

tacit anvil
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maybe role student and room class and one teacher who teach program language..

somber crow
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Can you clarify what you mean please? @tacit anvil

tacit anvil
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my english not good so i will try

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i mean good programer in this server will be "teacher"
like open a room that called class and every week he will learn new things in program language

somber crow
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That doesn't sound feasible for a tryhackme room really.

exotic shell
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I want to make a Magicians box. From the TV series The Magicians

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Any ideas?

karmic raven
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@exotic shell copyright

exotic shell
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They have one?

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Oh wait

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I understand

somber crow
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Whatever material you use, it needs to be usable for commercial use

exotic shell
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How do you go about making a box? Just downloading virtual box and making it

somber crow
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Licensed for commercial use

tender spoke
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Why are Cyber Defence Rooms so low value in points?

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Some take 1hour+ to complete properly and reward like 60 points

cedar echo
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Most ctf rooms are like that as well

somber crow
spare snow
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Hey is phineas and ferb copyrighted

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I was thinking on a box with phineas and ferb theme

somber crow
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Basically any existing TV show etc will be copyrighted

spare snow
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Ahh damn

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Means I cant make box with the characters name ??

somber crow
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Copyright is complicated

trim musk
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maybe a dark-mode for tryhackme would be great !?

somber crow
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This channel is for ideas for rooms

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Try the feedback form on the site

trim musk
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ah ty

spring seal
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A room on using the developer tools in your browser

somber crow
spring seal
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so it is

sterile prism
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a room where you are prompted to take a sip/shot and you find them like flags

karmic raven
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while fun I see many issues with that but I dunno

native raptor
dusty birch
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a room where you have to hack to get the real room , and then in the real room , there will be any general stuff . i mean just like HTB has a login page which is supposed to be hacked to get youself in , just like that why not have a room which is supposed to be hacked to get the real room

native raptor
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Because... why?

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That's not really how TryHackMe works. It's not one big challenge, it's lots of little training modules. Some are challenges, yes, some are walkthroughs.
It would take a fundamental change in the ethos of the company (not to mention the actual code in the site), to make that happen

hazy kraken
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Hello, this is my first time here.
I think a room on VPN technologies and exploitation would be nice .

pulsar gorge
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Is there an intro to .NET room yet? I was thinking of putting together one

native raptor
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There is not @pulsar gorge. I'm sure it would be appreciated though ๐Ÿ˜

pulsar gorge
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Hmm or maybe an ETW room

cedar echo
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ETW?

pulsar gorge
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Event tracing for windows

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It's how a lot of edr does monitoring now a days

cedar echo
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๐Ÿ‘

pulsar gorge
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What would y'all want to see in a .NET room?

light lynx
feral reef
pulsar gorge
earnest mountain
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Maybe a room abouth smbclient or sqlmap?

cedar echo
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Should be some of those already

feral reef
# pulsar gorge theoretically those are the same now ๐Ÿคฃ

ah, i haven't kept up with the development for quite some time so you might be right. As far as i aware .net was for windows development and .net core was for cross platform development.

The reason why i know about it this way was because of the powershell 5/6/7 where 6 was the core version

tacit anvil
fading oak
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points vary between walkthrough rooms and challenge rooms

tacit anvil
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Some rooms which leverages common applications like word, or excel, with macroโ€™s.. or some rooms in which you can practice pivoting

feral reef
tacit anvil
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@feral reef thanks for the info, will check it out..

feral reef
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both HoloLive and Wrath are not yet available. HoloLive is going to be free for subscribers and Wrath free for everyone. Is my understanding correct @native raptor ?

native raptor
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Pretty much, although it may have a couple of stipulations attached (e.g. subs might get smaller numbers in the network, or there might be a streak count required to access). That hasn't quite been decided yet ๐Ÿ™‚

feral reef
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Not sure if i'm being an idiot or not, but do we have a list of all the boxes that require pivoting?

native raptor
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Not that I know of. Internal, For Business Reasons, Gamezone, Year of the Fox, Wreath, Holo, Throwback, Python Playground

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That's off the top of my head

pulsar gorge
tacit anvil
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When are these great new โ€˜network boxesโ€™ going live?

native raptor
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We were thinking about making a room testers lookup table for it though @feral reef

feral reef
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could we possibly add pivot as a tag to the rooms you said

native raptor
native raptor
feral reef
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yeah, i know that a few of you have editor permissions would it be a good suggestion to have it added

native raptor
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Potentially, although I'm hesitant to add tags to challenges that the creators didn't choose -- just in case they did it deliberately

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Like, if they want to keep it secret

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Theseus, for example

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That's another pivoting one though

feral reef
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that makes sense, possibly talk to the user or something?

native raptor
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Yeah, potentially

tacit anvil
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Cool! Its great like pivoting and exploring network boxes, as its so realistic and you learn so much of it..

native raptor
feral reef
feral reef
tacit anvil
native raptor
feral reef
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mind dropping the list again over DM so we can keep track of the people that have been contacted?

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i got some stuff to work on now and will get back to it once i'm done with work in 2 h

native raptor
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Aye, I'll drop the ones I can remember

karmic raven
native raptor
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Close then

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This is gonna be neck and neck. Which one releases first ๐Ÿ˜

tacit anvil
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๐Ÿ‘

karmic raven
native raptor
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Easy stuff goes down better ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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And I've covered a much wider range of stuff

tacit anvil
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@native raptor are there any โ€˜bypassing protectionโ€™ rooms? Like practice beating defender or ids/ips stuff?

karmic raven
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nah

somber crow
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Wreath lmao

native raptor
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I've got some easy AV evasion in Wreath

karmic raven
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holo sits in background confyCry

native raptor
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But that stuff changes so quickly that it's impossible to do anything in depth

tacit anvil
cunning thunder
tacit anvil
dusty birch
odd lagoon
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Suggestion to develop in site. You can make compare per members for instance head to head for rooms (for ranking or to follow progression of friend ).

light lynx
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you can already do that if you're in the top 10 or find your friend on the leaderboard?

cunning thunder
odd lagoon
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really? I'm 4th in my country and I want to see which rooms the 1st complete compared to me (Head to head). Is that possible? (obvious we are not friends )

cunning thunder
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That's not a room idea though.

odd lagoon
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yes that's why i say suggestion to site for development purpose ๐Ÿ˜›

cunning thunder
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This channel is for room ideas though. ๐Ÿ™‚

odd lagoon
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I didn't find something for site and seems the only related to suggests an idea ๐Ÿ˜›

coral ravine
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There is a feedback forum if you have any ideas on how the platform can improve

odd lagoon
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ok ๐Ÿ‘

reef crypt
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Hi. Anyone else interested in reversing through gdb?

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A room with something like that would be kind of cool

spring seal
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There already the Radare2 room

reef crypt
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Haven't checked it out, thanks!

spring seal
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its pretty good

spiral frigate
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No offense but gdb >>>>>>>>>> r2

spring seal
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i bow to your superior knowledge, i've never really used gdb

lunar plank
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Everyone picks their poison (:

final sun
reef crypt
reef crypt
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The manuals are gigantic though

spring seal
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least you get a manual ๐Ÿ™‚

final sun
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r2 has it's own perks

spring seal
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A room running the PacVim game designed to teach people vim, but with a twist! we reprogram it so its now how long you stay in, but how fast you can get out! the higher your tryhackme score, the more control characters are disabled.

light lynx
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You had me until:

the higher your tryhackme score, the more control characters are disabled.
๐Ÿ˜†

torn kettle
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Sorry to bug you all, in a windows VM when upload, is RDP port open a mandatory requirment?

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Trying to build something thats is harder to enumerate

native raptor
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No, for now it needs RDP open @torn kettle

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Maybe in the future WinRM will be fine

spring seal
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well, the real idea was just a room running PacVim, but i realised it could just run in the attack box anyway.

torn kettle
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Oh dear. Alright, I appericate you assistance!

native raptor
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Not at all ๐Ÿ™‚

spring seal
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question for you bee, someone was asking me about their streak earlier, i know you can fix i but i didn't know if i should tell them to email support, or contact you personally..... and its not like its a big problem i'm happy just to say 'theres probably nothing that can be done but try .....'

native raptor
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Tell 'em to contact support ๐Ÿ™‚

spring seal
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sound good, my policy will be contact support 'if your lucky, maybe they can help'

karmic raven
native raptor
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And yeah, one of the Windcorp boxes doesn't have it open, and trust me that was a pain in the rear end to license ๐Ÿ˜†

spring seal
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o that makes sense

lunar plank
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I will give it a try via winrm and "quietening" the licensing fixes / making it more CLI friendly

spring seal
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i guess we never think of windows having to have a public facing port open for licensing

karmic raven
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CMN does kekw

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petition to change CMNs title to professional licenser

spring seal
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and a site license for 333000 users must be a killer!

karmic raven
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Nah AWS handles all that makes it easy but the Windows boxes have been misbehaving lately

native raptor
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For as long as anyone can remember

karmic raven
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They were fine when I first came here

spring seal
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you brought them with youi!

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its ike the titanic, it was fine when i boarded

karmic raven
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I scared the windows with my superior active directory

spring seal
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light will set you free

karmic raven
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@native raptor you think I can completely rebrand myself as light and no one will ever know who I truly am?

native raptor
karmic raven
native raptor
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I blame you for that

lunar plank
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Hey side note -- does anyone have a winrm box uploaded kekw

karmic raven
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I think my reemaryland10gobrrv2 box might

native raptor
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Go against YOTO

karmic raven
native raptor
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What is it...

karmic raven
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When we called you maryland instead of muirland

spring seal
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that doesn't even make sense

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markl;and make cookies

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theres no maryland oracle

light lynx
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also hi @spring seal i see u on twitter a lot :))

spring seal
spring seal
karmic raven
lunar plank
lunar plank
urban sand
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Hello. I don't know if this has been suggested before but maybe could there be a room about noSQLI?

sudden garnet
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there's a couple challenges involving it but no walkthrough at the moment

tacit anvil
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It would be nice to have reset account option imo

somber crow
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This channel is for suggesting rooms, rather that site feature suggestions

tacit anvil
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Oke thanks

fast nymph
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Arduino and electronics >.>

torn kettle
simple gust
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Room idea: Elevator breaks down > you're stuck inside > you have just enough of a gap in the door for your laptop to grab the company wifi > it's not enough to connect to the mail server but you can reach the cached intranet page > you find a vuln that lets you deface the home page for the intranet and there is a service that checks for keywords in a marquee like "HELP. STUCK IN ELEVATOR" > you get rescued (given final flag) > you win the internet.

simple gust
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I was feeling a way, when I wrote that

coral ravine
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Too much shodan Varg?

simple gust
native raptor
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You design website and write the tasks, I'll implement and upload?

simple gust
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Done and done

native raptor
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Could even make it a nice simple webapp hacking tutorial?

simple gust
native raptor
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Awesome. Lemme know what kind of vulnerability you want and we can get cracking ๐Ÿ˜

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I know James has an XSS room in the works, so probably not that

simple gust
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Iโ€™ll give it some thought today. Frustrating but fun is the aim.

tough pasture
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any scope for a web injection walkthrough room?

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sql, ldap, nosql, maybe ssti (although that's been covered a lot)

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with some more advanced techniques covered such as manual blind sql etc.

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I know there's a few rooms which do SQL, so was just wondering if there was space for another slightly broader one?

somber crow
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I haven't seen an SSTI walkthrough room yet.

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I know someone's making one.

graceful locust
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There is a room that has a small part on it, it also has JWT and... XXE I think?

coral ravine
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Yep zth:Obscure vulns

tough pasture
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Ah right

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Well, I'd be very happy to help create an SSTI walkthrough room if the person creating it right now is?

dense briar
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unless its comissioned

modest trail
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Also sorry didnโ€™t realise that was hours ago

somber crow
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This channel doesn't move too fast, but @tough pasture ^ it's nearly ready

tough pasture
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Ahh right, optional is working on it, I'm sure he's got it under wraps haha

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thanks James for pointing that one out

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@modest trail if you want anyone to test it let me know :)

modest trail
tough pasture
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Yeah of course, it would be great to check it out ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

hazy kraken
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It would be nice to have room(s) on advanced web attacks like on oauth, oracle attacks, second order sqli, ...
Sorry if this is not the proper channel to ask that

hazy kraken
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@mystic badge does bash have the suid bit set to 1?

somber crow
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This isn't a help channel @late parrot

tawdry ravine
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need a room to go to celebrate licking a task

somber crow
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??

karmic raven
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You mean like a feedback channel for room creators

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we used to have one

tacit anvil
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it would be cool if there was a room for teaching static analysis of code and semgrep (https://semgrep.dev/)

native raptor
cedar echo
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Hey this is an interesting tool

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I mean we use SonarQube at work, but this could be interesting offline

sharp bough
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binexp stack overflow room

native raptor
#

Or any of the other BoF rooms

sharp bough
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I mean a tutorial room for that topic

native raptor
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You mean, like the first task in that room?

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Although yes, I agree, a full tutorial on buffer overflows would be good

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I believe Robin had something in the works for that. @pine olive maybe you'd like to touch base with him and see what's up there?

sharp bough
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O.o

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Nice ๐Ÿ˜„

pine olive
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https://tryhackme.com/room/bof1 is also pretty good in terms of explaining the whole stack architecture, and about hand crafting an exploit. Though I found the windows bofs easier, this sure informed my understanding of bofs before that.

pine olive
lament star
tawdry ravine
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a room to submit and evaluate essays

native raptor
tawdry ravine
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anyone who wants to

native raptor
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Crowdsource it?

tawdry ravine
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tbh i got the idea wrong. i thought this was for room ideas on the discord

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but its room ideas on the website

native raptor
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Correct

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Discord "Rooms" are generally called "channels"

cloud pebble
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It would be nice to have a section on the rooms that links to "similar rooms". For instance, if I complete a stego room and want to do more stego. A separate tab, within that room, that is auto-populated with similar rooms based on their tags would be really helpful for continuing practice.

storm canyon
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Use search bar to search for stego?

native raptor
cloud pebble
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yeah, that works, but this is more of a conveniance request right. maybe i don't remember the tag, or know all the tags that are offered, but i do remember a room that i liked

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i can then just go to that room and pull more similar rooms to it

cloud pebble
native raptor
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Awesome

dusty gyro
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might be a good idea to add rooms to folders, to allow for quick reference. I find some rooms really useful and would be good to allocate them to something like a "saved rooms" folder.

native raptor
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Again, if you want to put that into the site feedback form, it will get reviewed there @dusty gyro ๐Ÿ™‚

cedar echo
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I added a similar feedback this morning

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I hope it gets implemented

cunning thunder
cedar echo
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I may be missing something but I don't see a "my rooms"

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wait I'm dumb

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I was not looking in the right place

dusty gyro
tough pasture
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@somber crow do you mind if I pm? it's just regarding rooms that have been done before, and you know the rooms better than anyone I know

tacit anvil
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Heyy! It would be awesome if there would be a room about 'how to write reports' or 'how to document what we do efficiently and correctly' ๐Ÿ™‚

native raptor
tacit anvil
native raptor
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It's not released yet. Still in testing ๐Ÿ™‚

tacit anvil
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I am on defensive path now.

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A, ok, hahha, but still, it is good to know that it will be on thm ๐Ÿ™‚

magic rune
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Web Fundamentals Extreme for WAPTX preparation

karmic raven
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ok

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so

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You want us to make a course

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For a course

cedar echo
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There are rooms on most of those subjects already

tough pasture
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have we got any rooms on LDAP injections, or similar?

magic rune
# karmic raven ok

I mean like something like a prep for the course
the Web fundamentals helped me alot in WAPT
so I was thinking an advanced version of that one

tacit anvil
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Would a room about phreaking ever be a possibility? There probably wouldn't be any practical tasks but i think it would be cool, as hacking was born from phreaking.

coral ravine
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That most likely wouldn't be accepted

somber crow
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Can even integrate it with VoIP for some fun

coral ravine
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Oh I didn't know it's been patched everywhere I didn't exactly know what that was til I googled it and thought it would be borderline gray hat as it says to make free long distance calls

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Seems like a pretty cool idea to have a room on

tacit anvil
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I think it would be a very interesting room. It was the first form of 'hacking' if i am correct

somber crow
coral ravine
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Yea that makes sense

fluid crystal
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Is there a room with an open JDWP(Java Debug Wire) port?

tacit anvil
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Hi, is there any room fron practising port forwarding?

dense briar
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dont think so but i think its in a few regular challenge rooms as part of the box

somber crow
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Wreath will. Soooooon.

novel quail
tacit anvil
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nice thx

tacit anvil
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Guys what do you think about rooms wich teach you how to write hacking tools with python&bash? It would be cool ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

cedar echo
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there's a couple rooms on python and bash

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the python one is pretty decent

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challenge room there

teal mortar
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It would be great to have a room based on Active Countermeasures threat hunting course or just a room based on the tool Rita. I just attended the workshop last day. ๐Ÿ˜…

shy coral
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A log poisoning basics room or sumn

modest trail
cedar echo
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It does

karmic raven
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@native raptor dialup noises?

karmic plume
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send please a rooms privates

coral ravine
karmic plume
coral ravine
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You can join them a /jr/ link

karmic plume
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yo have anyone?

somber crow
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You cannot use that command here. #bot-commands and verify. You also don't get points from private rooms.

karmic plume
somber crow
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Why?

karmic plume
somber crow
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You can do that with public rooms.

karmic plume
somber crow
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Private rooms aren't tested. There's over 300 public rooms to choose from.

vernal delta
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Would a room about home router security befit THM? I know it's often the weakest point of any home network, and I'd think most members would benefit from learning how to secure their stuff. I'm thinking of a defense oriented room giving us tips and tools on how to interact with and configure generic modems and routing devices. Would that be within the scope of the site?

somber crow
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Can you make it interactive?

vernal delta
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To be clear, I'm not qualified to make the room, but don't think it has to be interactive to be informative and useful, like some other intro to networking rooms.

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Now if it's possible to deploy and connect to a virtual router-type box, enumerate its services, and interact with it I would find that very interesting, but I can't tell if it's possible

somber crow
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For the most part, rooms should be interactive. Rather than just quizzes on info etc.

karmic raven
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ahhh

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We could do something with PfSense but really itโ€™s going to be hard to make a room about

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This is also not a huge topic and can really be addressed in a paragraph or two of a blog post which plenty are already out there

sudden garnet
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pfsense could be a huge topic though

somber crow
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You can also emulate a home router image but IDK the licensing

karmic raven
karmic raven
vernal delta
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I'd have a lot of stupid questions to ask but don't want to bother y'all, I just imagined it'd be fun for a room to present itself in reverse from what we usually do. As a walkthrough it deploys unpatched and unsafe, but we'd have to secure it bit by bit, do software updates, modifying the gateway's default address, shutting down unnecessary ports, or out-of-the-box public facing samba shares and whatever other nightmares I can't think of, so that when the room's done we've made it better.

tough pasture
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oo, that's a fun idea

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so one for like patching a koth machine?

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it's very interesting to dive around stuff config files, and quite cool seeing vulnerable services being patched.

cedar echo
tacit anvil
spiral frigate
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A docker room escaping another docker container built on it

cedar echo
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how would that be different from a regular escape?

spiral frigate
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Oh no I thought it would be confusing... Like "I just escaped the docker container why am I not getting the flag... Is that a rabbit hole?? Arghh I don't wanna solve room any more, let's go to room bugs and report for this as bug." May be their first rxn

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Just an idea... For practicing, like if got into this in a real world situation.

native raptor
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@spiral frigate if you mean nested docker containers, you're never going to see that in the real world -- it's absolutely horrible practice.

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Docker container inside a VM maybe, but AWS won't let us do nested virtualisation, and VM escapes are very, very rare anyway

spiral frigate
cedar echo
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yeah don't nest docker containers

stray fulcrum
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VM escapes are rare but do you have any statistics about cross-VM-exfil in practice? e.g. exfiltrating an SSH/TLS private key from another VM on the same host via Spectre or shared memory or whatever

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Docker in VMs is pretty standard though for self hosted solution (if you don't have the manpower for a Kubernetes/OpenShift cluster, you'll just install an ESXi, out VMs onto it and run Docker inside)

cedar echo
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I think escaping the VM sandbox itself is very rare

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cross-VM would be the same unless there's a network linking them

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to escape Docker, you can abuse OS-level bugs

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or misconfigurations of the sandbox

fading oak
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so abusive

icy trellis
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@fading oak ?

cedar echo
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probably referring to OS level bugs andรฉor misconfigurations

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nothing to see here, move along ๐Ÿ™‚

fading oak
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true, hydra was using abuse a lot

coral ravine
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what?

thorny talon
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nothing!!

coral ravine
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...

thorny talon
#

i realised that stuff doesnt happen here

stray fulcrum
cedar echo
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Oh spectre. Surely that's all been patched by now

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Cross VM can abuse hardware bugs too

tacit anvil
#

SELinux room

scarlet solstice
#

Is it possible to have more python learning rooms (cybersecurity related)? I learned better with THM, rather than watching youtube or reading through endless post tutorials.

lethal goblet
scarlet solstice
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This sounds like a selfish request, but I think I will not be the only one who will enjoy learning and benefit from those security/hacking related libraries rooms.

lethal goblet
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Wdym

scarlet solstice
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just putting an idea for more python related rooms

lethal goblet
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Fine...I'm also putting my idea ....the decision is upto thm...and there is nothing sounds as selfish request as understanding about sockets and os is beneficial ...

midnight reef
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Same as in for socket there's a lotta resources layin around ๐Ÿ™‡

scarlet solstice
scarlet solstice
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What I am trying say there is that there are introductory room materials, which really helped beginners to get taste of the areas whatever they are studying, but there is no the next level stuff. I could be wrong in this though. I have been on THM for only less than a month.

tacit anvil
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Add auto terminate as an option in rooms ๐Ÿ™‚

somber crow
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It's been discussed before and turned down

tacit anvil
#

reep

idle knoll
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I'm very new to thm, so I haven't really deep dived into available boxes; therefore there might already be one or two. but maybe an ICS box? both offense and defense

coral ravine
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There is already an ICS

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let me quickly get the link

hollow vault
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Hi everyone. What do you think about a room that explains port redirection and pivoting?

cedar echo
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Wreath will probably have some

hollow vault
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Yup, but I mean a dedicated room that explains the various methods and concepts in-depth

cedar echo
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Wreath is an upcoming free network

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But feel free to make a walkthrough room

somber crow
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Wreath guides you through it

cedar echo
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Out soon โ„ข๏ธ

hollow vault
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Got it ๐Ÿ‘Œ

tacit anvil
#

A history room!,,echo

tired path
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A room featuring weaknesses in ssl and tls (POODLE, CRIME, BEAST), basically all the stuff testssl or sslyze report with an actual exploit to abuse the weaknesses.

hardy tartan
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A room about different types of VPN's

subtle grove
#

hi

pseudo patio
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Hi

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I am new here

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I can't join voice channels

somber crow
pseudo patio
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How can I verify?

sudden garnet
soft hamletBOT
tough pasture
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any boot2root machines that use redis?

somber crow
#

Res

storm canyon
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Sub only ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

dim cape
#

Do you guys have a room for Man in the middle attack?

mellow cosmos
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closest thing is borderlands, although might not be exactly what you are thinking

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more of an intercept traffic thing

dense briar
spring hawk
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This may have been suggested before but a Linux+ Learning path or at least a more robust linux fundamentals room/path would be cool. More basic then lots of the paths but would be really good for beginners. I had to supplement THM for the linux stuff which was fine but would have loved some additional Linux stuff on THM too.

tough pasture
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Yup, that's being rebooted by CMN

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he was talking about it earlier today

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if you catch him in a VC, he could elaborate on it I guess

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he said there'd be ~5/6 rooms in it, with more detailed content I believe

karmic raven
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This has already been discussed greatly in depth and honestly at this point I have no clue what the conclusion was but here is what I do know, weโ€™re a hacking site, thereโ€™s already a bunch of options out there for Linux.

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did he mention that today

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I donโ€™t even know at this point, we have a lot happening all at once

tough pasture
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yup, like an hour ago or something like that

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just after his talk

merry yacht
#

you know what would be cool?
a hacking escape room
you need to use sudo, export and more to get your way out

coral ravine
#

You mean like a container?

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Because there are quite a few of them

somber crow
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I think they just mean a themed room

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So we have a room on Docker escapes, but maybe one on lxd and podman?

tacit anvil
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For April fools make a room that is supposed to be really easy but make it near Inpossible to hack

somber crow
#

That just sounds mean

tacit anvil
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April fools

somber crow
#

Not much of an april fool's

tacit anvil
#

Someone please make it anyway ๐Ÿ˜‚

somber crow
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It wouldn't get past the testing team.

tacit anvil
#

Aw 2reallysad

lunar plank
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It's a funny themed idea but it'll very quickly expire in the long run

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it's a lot of effort for both creator & room tester for it to be purely for a day event right

karmic raven
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I have an idea

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but I dont know if it is even technically possible

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Index with ADS over a browser

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I dont know how the web server would respond to ADS

subtle grove
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hi

cedar echo
little jackal
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We definitely need more OSINT rooms!

native raptor
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Always great seeing more community content on the site

little jackal
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I was just looking into how to do that. I didn't know I could make my own.

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I just might.

winter flame
#

sherlock && phoneinfoga

left kestrel
left kestrel
icy trellis
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Why?

tacit anvil
#

creepy

coral ravine
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Due to a lot of black hat stuff on the darkweb, this will not go through the testing stage

sudden garnet
#

room on onion routing? implementation, pros/cons?

coral ravine
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That could be a pretty good idea

karmic raven
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We already have a room on tor

sturdy gust
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i think it would be cool if we had a room about Sherlock, u know the BBC tv show

karmic raven
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Copyright

somber crow
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I think even the original source material is still protected in weird ways

dim gulch
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Im not knowledgable enough about making a room - I do have an idea about Windows Deployment Service tho

noble fox
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you can read blog on making rooms on thm or watch darkstar talk or john hammond video for room creation

karmic raven
sleek elbow
#

learn windows ๐Ÿ‘€

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i.e. that could be its name

cedar echo
sturdy gust
cedar echo
#

yeah that seems shifty IP wise

sturdy gust
#

and Mr Robot too

somber crow
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"They" was a member of the community

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Mr Robot was a vulnhub box

sturdy gust
#

Ohh alright

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thanks anyway!

bleak osprey
#

Maybe an sort of how to use Security Onion? Seems like an nice opensource IDS/Monitoring/Analysing to me ?
Analyzing errors etc, sort of the same as splunk but for smaller companys more realistic to have in the arsenal ?

sudden lion
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100% would love something on SO

subtle grove
bleak osprey
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I think it would be cool to have an sort off networking security path ( blue team focused ).. Mainly going in depth over different types of VPN, WAFs and other next-gen security tools were network/security engineers need to work with on a day to day base ? Pretty sure that there are plenty of company's willing to supply the vm templates ?

( I would love to help with working this idea out more in detail tho ๐Ÿ™‚ )

shell prairie
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Hi i have an idea for room. If someone can make a room explains how to write a report. And make a good report after any pentest operation. Thanks

native raptor
shell prairie
cunning thunder
orchid elm
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Hey, I wanted to know how does tryhackme operates a ova file submitted. Like I want to create a tmux session to be available inside but according to specification a tmux session gets erased after reboot.

karmic raven
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THM takes a VM file, typically OVA and uploads it to AWS to get converted to an AMI that can be deployed as needed by the room

orchid elm
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So that means the box would be booted up every time from power off state

karmic raven
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Yup

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You could always automate stuff to run at boot however

native raptor
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@orchid elm that would be a job for an autogen script running as a service ๐Ÿ™‚

orchid elm
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Yes, going after it now.

karmic ember
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Might already be in place in one of the existing networks, or planned, but having a complex ICS type network would be really interesting. And/or stuff involving activedirectory

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And while I'm still the village idiot here, I'd be happy to assist with creation/testing/debugging of stuff. Software engineer by trade, with a tiny bit of cybersecurity background.

native raptor
karmic ember
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"may be". Sneaky ๐Ÿ™‚

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Planning to do wreath this weekend (or at least start it). Throwback and holo sometime after. Definitely interested in more ICS related stuff, since I've kinda done some work there in the past. I see there are a couple rooms related to it (haven't done them yet, still working on the basics).

sleek elbow
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oh were building something like that at work kekw

karmic ember
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an ICS sim?

native raptor
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Reckon we could simulate ICS/SCADA on AWS Spooky?

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Would be worth a shot ๐Ÿ˜

sleek elbow
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the gear itself? I've got no clue

karmic ember
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Perhaps a basic REST service and a combination of a mocking framework?

sleek elbow
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I'll tell you the vendors we work with would get super protective if their stuff was being emulated

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imo, getting some of the guys from Dragos in here to write some proper ICS content would be the best idea

karmic ember
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rather than emulating a specific vendor or protocol or piece of equipment, just having a theoretical knowledge would be helpful. Learning how to reverse engineer a protocol, etc.

sleek elbow
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of course. I'd love to see more content on protocol RE

karmic ember
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I'm hoping some of that is covered in the malware analysis/RE rooms, but haven't gotten that far yet

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but after recently reading books about stuxnet and sandworm, I thought it'd make for a good network

sleek elbow
#

100%

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you've given Muir some good ideas kekw

karmic ember
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\o/

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Usually I'm good for being an example of what NOT to do. Happy I can be useful in this context ๐Ÿ™‚

native raptor
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Trust me, when Spooky says "good ideas", he means you've given me a great big stick to hit everyone with

karmic ember
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Hm. Is that a good thing? ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

tough pasture
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not if your name starts with J and ends with Ovnn

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just out of curiosity Buffer, do you have any protocol RE sites/resources that spring to mind - I've quite literally never heard of it, so would love to take a deeper look at it ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

karmic ember
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I don't, wish I did. I used to work with offensive specialists and picked up bits and pieces in conversation, but don't know enough to be very useful in that regard. Which is why I want to learn more.

rigid cloak
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I hope to build a couple rooms in the future once I get better, but in the meantime I have ideas about what I hope is in the future.

Car hacking

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satellite hacking

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PCI

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Hopefully I can contribute to the community soon.

torn portal
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Room Idea:
Writing Pentest Reports, tips and tricks!

sleek elbow
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iirc its covered in wreath

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its a very difficult topic to make a room on imo

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you need to switch from the CTF mindset to the vulnerability reporting, ranking, severity, etc mindset

torn portal
#

Ohh yee, I get it. anidab

hazy sage
#

Are there any restrictions to creating new rooms?

native raptor
#

Legality mainly

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!docs

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!docs room-notes

soft hamletBOT
native raptor
#

!docs room-review

soft hamletBOT
native raptor
#

Legality and the stuff in there

somber crow
#

+quality

dusty bobcat
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Hei, I want to try to create my first room ๐Ÿ˜ and I was wondering what Ubuntu version is recommended for my vm?

somber crow
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1804 server is the newest supported

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You don't want to use desktop, it runs super slow on the resources it's given. 1804 desktop will not convert.

dusty bobcat
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Aha okay so should I use server install image?

somber crow
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Yep.

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18.04.5 I think?

dusty bobcat
karmic ember
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Is network creation something normal users can do as well, or is that an entirely differet process?

native raptor
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Entirely different process, and needs a lot of input from the admins

somber crow
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I believe they've said they'd like to open it up to regular users though

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But I'd imagine that's a longer term thing

native raptor
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Yeah. How the heck you would make the cost efficient I don't know. I've spent hours A) making those boxes as streamlined as possible to maximise the number of users, and B) talking to the admins about how many people we can stuff into each network, what the entry requirements should be, how many instances, etc, and we're still not exactly gonna make a profit from it.

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I can't see how it would work, opening it up to everyone, although it would be really nice to see

somber crow
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I imagine it'd involve close collaboration with CMN, and maybe gatekept behind a couple good quality room releases

karmic ember
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Yeah, I kinda figured that would be the answer, was just curious

#

Would be awesome to have a more red team vs blue team scenario, but I don't see that being practical

native raptor
somber crow
#

You're just a very offensive person

native raptor
#

Also true

karmic raven
karmic ember
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Something to look forward to I guess

sudden garnet
native raptor
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Oh, it's not the AMI hosting that causes issues

sudden garnet
#

idk how the billing is, and how much of a difference these would make

#

ami?

native raptor
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It's actually running the things

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OVAs are converted into AMIs by EC2

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That's the conversion bit of the upload

sudden garnet
#

does the size of the machine not contribute to the cost?

native raptor
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It does, but not a lot

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Remember there are also Windows machines around with 60gig hard disks attached to them on THM

sudden garnet
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ah i see

karmic ember
#

I'm guessing the cost is in the vpc/subnets/etc that have to be created for each network instance

native raptor
#

That and actually running the boxes themselves

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EC2 costs a fortune, especially on anything other than t2.micro

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Pennies per minute quickly adds up -- especially when you're dealing with lots of boxes

karmic ember
#

And it has to be 'always on'? You can't do something like ECS or fargate?

native raptor
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That's why the sleep function exists

somber crow
#

VMs, not containers, so no ECS

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Same thing for Fargate.

karmic ember
#

yeah, was thinking that some stuff you might be able to containerize

somber crow
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It's not an AWS pentesting lab, at the end of the day

karmic ember
#

true. But you could still hook a container into your subnet and vpc, on demand

native raptor
#

I wish Containers would be lovely

karmic ember
#

This is probably a bad idea for several reasons, but what about having different levels of subs? Or a "pay for what you use" type sub, that means the person running networks 20hr/day pays more than the person doing a few rooms a week.

somber crow
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THM used to run on credit, and I know the admins are hesitant to tier anything

native raptor
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That was actually considered at one point. The admins didn't want to tier it though

karmic ember
#

fair enough. Figured it would be a non-starter, just throwing out ideas

lunar plank
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For a bit of context, there is 1,820 AMi's right now haha. Not all are uploads from users/boxes that you deploy (but I imagine that's <100 I can't really count it too well)

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A "room dev 101" room is in the works for things like that (i.e. tips and tricks) but it's literally like the last item on my never ending list

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And that's after a good clean-up too phew

karmic ember
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Sounds like you need more code monkeys ๐Ÿ™‚

bleak osprey
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I think it was smart to ask money for the network and also fair towards the users and thm self

sudden garnet
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a walkthrough room dedicated to hacking wordpress?

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wpscan, how to read the output
malicious plugins
malicious themes

  • other ways i dont know that exist
somber crow
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Room submissions is gone, but it was in there

sudden garnet
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ah rip

somber crow
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It's a good idea and something I'd really like to see

cunning thunder
somber crow
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I'd love to see that developed into a standalone box

native raptor
somber crow
tacit anvil
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Hey admins, I and a friend have recently created a new room and it was published just few minutes ago, can u guys test it and evaluate it?

somber crow
tacit anvil
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where can place it in the testing queue

somber crow
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What do you mean?

tacit anvil
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So you means once the room created and the box is uploaded its automatically in the testing queue

native raptor
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Not seeing anything new in the queue. Did you set it to public?

tacit anvil
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Yes

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It's under

native raptor
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What's the room code?

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You sure?

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That code does not exist

tacit anvil
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One second please

native raptor
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Found it

tacit anvil
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Great btw, we where testing the flag submissions should we reset it

native raptor
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So, it's not currently set to publicly accessible

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Flick that switch and it will get added into the queue

tacit anvil
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Alright

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Done

lament star
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@native raptor you leaked the room code blobknife

jovial chasm
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Hello guys, i have suggestion, maybe not something that is in your business strategy, but still... ๐Ÿ™‚ I was subscriber for more than half year. I will continue my subscription, but not for next few moths (btw, THM platform is awesome, thanks coolguy). Anyway, i can see that subscription only rooms are now disabled and that is totally OK. But, I would appreciate access to walk-troughs that i finished, even VM attached to room could be disabled, but knowledge base that i could recall is gone. And as ex-subscriber i could have some advantage over non payers as appreciation for supporting platform. Just an idea, keep a good work going, thanks ๐Ÿ˜‰

icy trellis
cedar echo
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This has been discussed before, no? Might warrant a faq entry

lament star
lament star
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recursion

lament star
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ah @icy trellis you there

icy trellis
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Iโ€™m here

lament star
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fast, you might actually beat ninja one day darkchamp

scarlet solstice
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There seems to be better free rooms than paid rooms. In my opinion, subscription only helps one to get certificate of completion of a path, plus gets to participate in networks like Wreath. Other than these, there aren't much differences between paid room and free rooms, such in style of rooms, tasks and the level of rooms. As a subscriber myself, I don't notice which room I am in whether it's a free or paid.
I understand that not many people will be on the same boat with me. THM is indeed more toward beginner-friendly platform, and without a doubt, it's a great learning platform for beginners like me.

In short, I just want to say if anyone is writing a room only for subscribers, make sure it's worth for paid students.

On the other hand, there might be things I am not seeing. I am only at level 8. I have't much explored medium and hard rooms yet. So feel free to tell me if I miss anything.

somber crow
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In short, I just want to say if anyone is writing a room only for subscribers, make sure it's worth for paid students. - Usually, creators are paid for sub only rooms

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So yeah, the admins are there to make sure it's "worth it"

scarlet solstice
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I am now relieved to know there is a process for such. Thank you for the information.

somber crow
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Something like wreath, I'd be willing to bet Muir got paid for.

cunning thunder
scarlet solstice
cunning thunder
ancient prawn
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I wanted to create a room and have a idea
But not sure if you guys would be interested
Actually it's from a bug that I founded in a website recently
Anyone willing to hear it in voice ?
If no ,
Where should I post it ?

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tag me in case anyone replies

cunning thunder
karmic ember
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Probably a bad suggestion, but just throwing it out there: What about rooms related to various wifi protocols? Bluetooth, BLE, etc? I see only a single room with a search for "wpa". I know that doing any kind of simulation on this solely within THM would be difficult, so it would probably require it to be more of a walkthrough with your own equipment, but it would be interesting (and related to reverse engineering communication protocols).

somber crow
karmic ember
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Yeah, wifi is maybe harder- I personally have several extra routers/laptops/etc I use for my security labs, but I know most people don't. But I'd love to learn more about bluetooth, or just any protocol, really. NFC, whatever. Seems like there's some interesting attack surfaces there that don't get a lot of information

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A lot of my interest in security is defensive in nature- how do I, as a developer, make my systems harder to hack/break/exploit/etc.

somber crow
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Something I'd love to see is a walkthrough room that actually explains each vuln

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Something like an application logic flaw, or unsafe handling of something

karmic ember
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absolutely

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A lot of what I've seen so far is more "copy/paste this command", without the background on what it's doing or why it works. With some notable exceptions (wreath, as an example, or the encryption 101 room you made)

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and maybe that's just because I've been sticking to the path and the easy rooms

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the file upload room was another good one, actually- that made me think of a lot of things I can do, as a developer, to prevent those attacks

native raptor
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I love the fact that 2/3 of those rooms you just listed are mine kekw

karmic ember
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๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ you do a good job of going into the theory and background, I guess

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for me, the "why/how" is just as interesting as the "what", maybe more so

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And I don't want that to sound like I'm complaining about the content- I'm absolutely not, and have already learned a ton in my short time here. You folks are all awesome โค๏ธ ๐Ÿ™‚

gritty summit
tacit anvil
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Hello, are there currently an rooms touching on the topic of email spoofing? I only found ctf GoldenEye with the "email" tag. Otherwise a room explaining SPFs, MX record, DKIMs etc could be pretty cool.

karmic ember
gritty summit
karmic ember
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Yeah, like I said- I love the content here. Definitely not complaining

tribal jay
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Hey guys

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How does a room related to elearnsecurity courses sound?

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So we can answer questions after reading the material instead of just reading the material

icy trellis
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I believe they would need permission from the course creator.

tribal jay
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Yes, of course

tawny wave
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hello i'm creating my first room, i need just to upload the .ova file ?

tawny wave
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thanks! i'm creating the room then i'll post the link, hope you guys will enjoy it

native raptor
tawny wave
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ahh ok, didn't know ! thanks for explanation

native raptor
tawny wave
native raptor
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Np ๐Ÿ™‚

karmic ember
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Another random idea: oauth. What are some common attack methods, and how can we defend against them (configuration settings, IDS/IOC, etc.)

karmic ember
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Another idea: what about DKIM and other email authentication systems? How to look at email headers, how to detect spoofed/phished stuff, that sort of thing

karmic ember
# karmic ember Probably a bad suggestion, but just throwing it out there: What about rooms rela...

This article (and others like it) is what makes me curious about protocols and wanting to learn more: https://petapixel.com/2021/04/01/critical-vulnerability-affects-bluetooth-enabled-cameras/

A newly discovered vulnerability in the 4.x Bluetooth wireless standard has been shown to affect cameras that implement full remote control functionality.

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(as someone who was written protocols in the past, I'm curious what steps I can take to make future protocols I might have to write more secure)

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Another idea: walkthroughs on properly configuring a certificate for a web server/email server/etc. ?

somber crow
karmic ember
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I do actually intend to create some rooms at some point, would love to, both for personal interest, and to give back to the community. Just not sure I have the necessary skills to do it (yet). Working on it ๐Ÿ™‚

somber crow
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For me, it tends to be sysadmin skills and webdev skills.

karmic ember
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i figure web dev can't be that hard, minus javascript, which I try to avoid

somber crow
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You can do some interesting stuff without frontend, but frontend is a great place to add flavour to your room

karmic ember
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It's on my TODO list. Along with a million other things ๐Ÿ™‚

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I'd actually be totally game for helping to create a room(s), just not sure I'm ready to do one entirely on my own yet

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I'm a software dev, but don't know a lot about security, so my knowledge areas might not have a lot of overlap with what's needed

fading oak
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room creation is a lot of fun because you really have to research your exploits that you want to use and make sure they work

karmic ember
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Yeah, and since I'm still a noob here, I'm not sure I'm qualified to be teaching the rest of the noobs ๐Ÿ˜‰

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at least not when it comes to exploits

fading oak
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everyone is qualified to teach something, just play to your strengths

karmic ember
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My strengths are in software dev, though, which doesn't seem to be applicable/appropriate for teaching here

fading oak
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you can a walkthrough room, it doesn't have to be a challenge

karmic ember
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true. If there's demand for it, I could try to put something together. Not sure what the focus would be. There's already lots of good resources for learning to write code in various ways/degrees/subjects/etc.

somber crow
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A walkthrough of hacking a machine/webapp is a good start; it's how I started with boxdev.

karmic ember
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Yeah, I feel like I'm not yet qualified to do that one. I'm still a noob in that regard ๐Ÿ™‚

karmic ember
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Probably a dangerous/unwise idea, given the amount of young people coming in and/or wanting to do unethical things, but a room on using something like CheatEngine could be interesting. I tried to create a college course on that some years back, but it got shot down. Would involve some assembly language knowledge, reverse engineering, memory management/understanding, etc.

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A lot cheaper than IDA, probably easier to learn. But a room on IDA would also be interesting

karmic ember
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I have hardly used it, and not in a couple years

feral wyvern
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Hey all, was working through the John room when I realized that I need to update to the bleeding-edge version on github. I have no idea how to use git-hub and I know that pretty much everyone uses. I think a room that teaches how to use it would be a great addition to the "Complete Beginner Path" somewhere.

karmic raven
karmic ember
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I know how that goes ๐Ÿ™‚

karmic ember
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Another idea: how to set up a home-network monitoring system. I.e. wireshark for not just the local device

ripe cape
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is this a dumb idea? probably. but could be interesting?

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also its old but probably still works (hopefully lol)

sudden garnet
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i really hope a room on that doesnโ€™t get released

karmic ember
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This idea is even less practical than many that I've suggested: What about a red vs blue/koth style system where the defender is just modifying code to a web app/api- perhaps something similar to the in-browser html editor for the recent html basics room. So they'd have to find and rewrite the bad code before the attacker can exploit it. Things like sql injection, bad oauth authentication, etc.

cedar echo
karmic ember
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which room was that?

cedar echo
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Git Happens

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Still need to fix a bug with that one though...

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Current version of Firefox broke the crypto library...but it's not important to completing the room

karmic ember
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I haven't done that one yet. Adding it to the list

lunar plank
sudden garnet
cedar echo
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I saw that thing... Blocker would be the Minecraft client I think

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Also it's a stupid idea...

tacit anvil
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@everyone

halcyon arrow
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Hey guys i have a question, when you submit your ubuntu machine on TryHackMe to add it on a room, does it have to be a server image?

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Can i not use a GUI version of ubuntu server for this case?

somber crow
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Ubuntu Desktop 1804 will not convert

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1604 desktop will, but I recommend against using anything with a desktop environment as it will be incredibly slow for any users.

halcyon arrow
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Ahh i see, well thanks for the help ๐Ÿ™‚

ripe cape
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(except for windows ๐Ÿ‘€)

trim charm
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hi everybody. is there a tutorial/doc or what have you for room creation? im keen to give it a go

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or is it pretty self-explanatory through the thm ui?

hoary latch
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I may be wrong, because I did not check out the creation tab quite frequently

trim charm
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but the sections, questions etc of the room itself? pretty straight forward?

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thanks btw

hoary latch
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Yeah, questions is straightforward I think

somber crow
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There's a little tutorial on there I think?

ripe cape
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verryyy brief overview

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actually wait

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there you go

karmic ember
karmic ember
sudden garnet
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as a standalone room, investigating windows is in there, so maybe rooms such as investigating <malware> would be nice

vernal lance
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@somber crow may i dm?blobheart

somber crow
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Why?

vernal lance
somber crow
vernal lance
tacit anvil
valid pawn
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not necessarily and room idea but an this is the site with my dark reader turned on, maybe an idea for in the future? Personally i end up doing rooms real late at night

icy trellis
lunar plank
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With Darkreader you can change the contrast/brightness settings @valid pawn i.e. this is what mine looks like but a site-wide "dark" mode has certainly been very much requested in the past

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For perspective here are my individual settings

karmic ember
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I was thinking about this specifically in relation to wreath, but it would apply to any network and probably to most rooms- what about having notifications from an IDS or firewall, so that if something you do triggers an alert, that you are notified about it. I.e.- training how how to evade those things and/or points penalty/reward for fewer alerts

somber crow
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Maybe a room about it, sure

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But urgh if that was expected for room creators to add...

karmic ember
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yeah, doing that retroactively would obviously be tough

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maybe an addition to the existing api

somber crow
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What API?

karmic ember
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I am assuming there's some sort of api that handles interaction with the back-end THM servers and the front end, and possibly the VMs.

somber crow
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Not really

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Nothing that would involve a firewall/IDS

storm canyon
karmic ember
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in the same way that you get a popup message for maintaining a streak or getting an answer right/wrong, you could hook into that from the room

somber crow
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I really don't think making room creator's lives harder is a good idea by any means

karmic ember
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I'm not asking for that :). Just throwing out ideas

somber crow
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And having an IDS/Firewall would be something the room creator would need to do

karmic ember
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yeah

somber crow
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You could make a room about it, but you don't have that much control over points and you certainly can't hook in to the popups.

karmic ember
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hm. well, just an idea. If it's not feasible, then it's not feasible

somber crow
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It's feasible to do a room on it, just not in the way you're describing

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Have the user hack a docker container etc, host OS runs an IDS, something custom that allows them to submit flags to a web interface there. Give them real flags for the THM site if they do it without tripping the IDS

karmic ember
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ah, I see what you're saying

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hm

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that sort of thing would probably be a really good addition to the defensive security path- knowing what certain types of malicious activity are going to get flagged as

trim charm
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whats a good linux distro / image to use for a room, if people have recommendations? something testable on docker, but which will also be smooth to upload to aws?

native raptor
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Ubuntu Server 18.04.5 is the common one @trim charm

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CentOS 8.2 is good

trim charm
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ok cool thanks. no need for the desktop bits, obviously, but im thinking of using an uncommon language for the programmatic bits, and it should support those mainstream distros ta

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*uncommon in ctfs

native raptor
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๐Ÿ‘€

bleak cloud
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Something like an thing how to prevent your OS for beeing hacked ๐Ÿ™‚

karmic raven
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you mean hardening, thatโ€™s already a thing

kind dune
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Is there a room to learn every way to escalate to root privilage?

coral ravine
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You have the linux priv and windows privesc rooms

kind dune
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Thanks!

orchid elm
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Hey I am having error in ova file upload

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I am uploading 1 file it shows as 2

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I deleted the file and uploaded again and it is still same

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@icy trellis

cosmic harness
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do you think there could be any way to have an email where you have to find the password in a room without someone doing sh*t to it?

native raptor
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@cosmic harness it would be a breach of ToS for any of the online companies, so no. Keep it within boxes unless it's passive.

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You could deploy a mailserver inside a box though ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

cosmic harness
karmic raven
cosmic harness
sleek elbow
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lol

severe scroll
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If I want to start making a room, can I just install Ubuntu server on a VM in any software? Like virtual box or VMware workstation? Or do I need to do something else? Thanks!

somber crow
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Make sure it's ubuntu 1804 server

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2004 will not convert

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I don't think VMware player will allow exports?'

severe scroll
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Ok. So I just need to create the VM, configure it to make it how I want it, then export it to an OVA?

somber crow
severe scroll
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Ok thanks ๐Ÿ˜€

karmic raven
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Much harder than pro or vbox

severe scroll
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So I'm best to use virtual box for making boxes then?

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Unless I pay for workstation pro โ˜น๏ธ

cosmic harness
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Or just entirely remove it?

cedar echo
dire tangle
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Hey can I share my idea to THM staff because I can't create this room on my own, it's not a network room but it's also not a normal room that I can create on the website. It's aiming to the real world situation and 100% not a illegal stuff.

native raptor
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@dire tangle I've given you access to #creators-lounge -- just ask in there and whoever has the answer will reply ๐Ÿ™‚

dire tangle
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Ok thanks @native raptor