general

[silk axle]

Guys i don't know if i can ask here cause it is not an aoc or thm question. The thing is I am trying to configure ssh certificate based authentication beetwen a ubuntu server and linux mint VMs. Can someone who has knowledge and experience write ti me?

[sick lance]

Which room are you doing?

[silk axle]

no i am not doing any room

i just want to establish ssh certificate based auth with my vms

[sick lance]

To the TryHackMe machines?

[silk axle]

no

[whole gazelle]

oopsie

[sick lance]

To a different machine?

[silk axle]

i have an ubuntu server that is the host vm and it serves as certificate authority machine, and then there is linux mint who is the client vm from which i need to access the host with certificate based authentication

i have tried everything and these are the go to steps https://goteleport.com/blog/how-to-configure-ssh-certificate-based-authentication/ but I cannot establish the connection

[jade verge]

So is your question networking related? When you say no connection, inability to ping? That would be the first step surely?

[boreal scarab]

Afternoon everyone! Our friend, @gray sonnet , has went through a bunch of emergency medical surgeries. He's in need of funds for his college. Any amount at all that you could give, would mean the world to us!
Disclaimer: I have been granted permission to post.

Deadline for raising the funds is the end of February!!!!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-anirudh-dillis-education-after-medical-crisis

[silk axle]

the thing is after generating all the ssh keys and signing them with the certificate authorities it still cannot establish ssh connection from the linux mint (client) to the ubuntu server (host)

[jade verge]

But is connectivity there? Does traffic fail or just authentication?

[silk axle]

it is the authentication

all right if someone knows please dm me. I will be online again in 2 to 3 hours

[sand trench]

you need to make it so they are on the same network in the virtual machine manager that you are using

[silk axle]

they are

idk I guess I am doing something wrong with the certificates and keys

[jade verge]

There's a long list of things that could be the problem really, so most people will just be guessing - are the root ca / host matching on system time? Can you retrieve the CRL from the host vm? The docs you linked are pretty good, you should be able to trace back to where the issue is from them really

I know this isn't helpful, but it could be any of the steps that aren't right and people (me included) are going to come across as saying rtfm

[sand trench]

this one????

[rapid merlin]

evening

starting exploitation basics tmrw since I feel like shit

[sick lance]

I didn't, now

[royal lantern]

is it possible to copy / paste on windows machine

(windows VM in tryhackme)

[sick lance]

@fervent nest Please don't advertise

[dark frost]

Sorry 🥺

[loud marlin]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/680459914828972076/1212924500560191488/clipboard.gif

[frozen grotto]

sheesh Scrubz is putting in work today 🥵 i thought the dc i mod on was a lot of work lol

[dark frost]

for my job application my teacher was super friendly ^^

[frozen grotto]

id buy ya a beer if i could

[brittle grove]

Quick question, I just started my cyber security journey in the past 2 months, i have never been the type of person that can learn just from reading and taking notes, I have to do the actions physically. I was taking notes when i first started but have since stopped and just been working my way through. Will this affect my cyber security journey for example when i need to remember what scripts to run etc is it a problem if i havent taken notes?

Since in this day and age everything is on google right?

[dark frost]

we gave a great writen recommendation leter

[rapid merlin]

Always take notes.

ALWAYS

just because it's on google doesn't mean it always will be

sites, tools are always going down

old tools are being replaced with new tools

[heavy idol]

Obsidian is great for notetaking

[rapid merlin]

no matter how small the task is, if you think you're likely to encounter it again; which you more than likely will, take a note of it

[brittle grove]

Damn I guess i gotta start taking notes again then, thank you

[rapid merlin]

no problem

[brittle grove]

Im defo gonna go back over the nmap section tomorrow then and note things down

[brittle grove]

I'll look into that, thank you

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @heavy idol (current: #2443 - 1)

[rapid merlin]

Notion / Obsidian

Both are good

[wooden totem]

txt file take it or leave it

[rapid merlin]

I was mentioning apps, but yeah you can always just use plain old notepad

[royal lantern]

its for attack box linux

but for windows remote desktop

no clipboard

[brittle grove]

😂

[frozen grotto]

I really like CherryTree too for notes, use it and Obsidian bc I'm dum

[clever meadow]

Any idea what the issue might be?

[wooden totem]

Is this on a samsung smart fridge lcd display, why is it so blue

[clever meadow]

It’s grey.

[boreal scarab]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj4LxVhx2-A

You're welcome

[wooden totem]

Idk how your screen looks but thats blue tinted, ice, blue gatorade infused color, that frozen tundra cinematic filter, that thing has more blue in it than the ocean

[heavy idol]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-jesse-pinkman-blue-season2-better-call-saul-gif-27153170

[wooden totem]

Probably browser extension problem if you have something like force dark mode

[clever meadow]

It appears blue, probably because I’m recording it

I checked that & also clicked on reset settings, no difference.

[rapid merlin]

trying to stay awake as long as possible to fix my sleep schedule kek

[drifting canopy]

can someone please gimme the answer and explain to me why that is the right answer?

[rapid merlin]

The answer should be in the course material

or the information required to figure it out should be there

[drifting canopy]

it is not there.

at all.

[rapid merlin]

what room are you doing

[rapid merlin]

layers 3-4

but yes

the answer it's there, in the material.

you need to watch at the osi model chart

and think for a bit

what does every layer / protocol do

[analog ferry]

quick question about the aoc side quests. I started looking around for keycards. Let's say I found one, but it's not the one I am looking for, can assume I there are no more keycards in the same day?

[rapid merlin]

#1312113121040535656

[wooden totem]

That was discovered to lead to brain damage

[rapid merlin]

Send the paper / sources;

[wooden totem]

(I just made that up, might be true tho idk)

[rapid merlin]

oh LOL

[heavy idol]

drain bramage?

[clever meadow]

yea, just think about what the firewall does, its function

[rapid merlin]

plus there are some firewalls with layer 7 capabilities

[clever meadow]

oops, wrong ping but works i guess

[rapid merlin]

Tho its not part of the answer for that room, is just an explanation for you to know

[teal wharf]

is this humanly possible ?

[rapid merlin]

asdasdas deppendes on how much free time you have on a day

mi max was 233

[teal wharf]

i see

[prisma mica]

hey there

how can i switch thm to dark mode

[glass nest]

i use Dark Reader extention on Chrome. THM dark mode is due to release some time this month

[prisma mica]

Thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @glass nest (current: #18 - 499)

[stuck viper]

hello

[weary leaf]

@glass nest hi , quick question boss

[glass nest]

I'm no boss, but shoot

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/stab-spectra-libitina-meme-knife-dance-gif-8762395799275400935

[sharp flame]

is there a coupon for monthly premium?

[wooden totem]

Only student's discount

[fair lava]

This isn't channel for that https://discord.com/channels/521382216299839518/522158539129618453

[wooden totem]

Hypothetically speaking would you still go to work/school etc if you weren’t getting paid, but you already had the money to live in luxury without working

[loud marlin]

@sand trench ever got issue with install cava ?

[sand trench]

yeah a few days ago... lets go look if shadow can figure out what solved it

[loud marlin]

git and normal install = same issue

[sand trench]

hmmm

yeah no clue why it borked

last time it apparently just worked after a package clear and waiting some bit

[loud marlin]

ehhe

[sand trench]

waiting some bit being a day or two

[shut hawk]

@glass nest stay safe

[rapid merlin]

Stressed and sick

So tired

[loud marlin]

even try to compile it by hand same error =/
dear lord... this day sux

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/rip-meme-dog-no-bark-gif-25909809

[sand trench]

bork burk byrk birk bork byrk bork bork birk

[rapid merlin]

Where is everyone

Hola my name is Dora, can we find the missing people

[sand trench]

reading stuff about web browser making shadow not wanna use that specific web browser

[rapid merlin]

Ohh what one

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/sandwich-shutup-gif-22740290

[rapid merlin]

hiya

[sand trench]

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-running-away-escape-getaway-bye-gif-16631286

[sand trench]

hmmmmm this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabliss/
vs
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nighttab/

not sure which to pick

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/tumbleweed-silence-gif-19279803

[wind lake]

beep

[worn thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-falling-gif-2829327295667490896

[boreal scarab]

Tabliss is my suggestion

[sand trench]

tabliss is harder to config with catppuccin theme though D:

[jade verge]

dracula ftw

[sand trench]

doubt dracula has a tabliss "port" but gonna go check now

[jade verge]

Sadly I think you are right

[sand trench]

nope.... they have a new tab extension but it looks like it is very basic and only got a search bar

[jade verge]

I just realised Dracula Pro exists and am not sure how to feel

other than I'm not gonna be paying $79 for it ever

[sand trench]

yeah it exists

[loud marlin]

i was also fan of dracula theme's. jsut now on arch is hyprland with ml4w

and most of stuff are based on wallpaper colors

[sand trench]

oh wow catppuccin supports more apps then dracula now

catppuccin == 394
dracula == 383

[jade verge]

catppuccin gives me choice paralysis

[sand trench]

between the 4 different variants or compared to other colorschemes/themes???

[jade verge]

I can never decide which flavour I like best

[sand trench]

ah

shadow personally sticks to mocha for the extra darkness

[gleaming bear]

Hi!!

[loud marlin]

hi hi

[boreal scarab]

Hi hi hi

[wild rose]

hi hi hi hi

[wind lake]

Hihihohi

[tall stag]

😅😅

[karmic furnace]

why does my openvpn config come as 0 bytes

possibly because of my vpn..

indeed it was.

[loud marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/elephant-ears-dumbo-happy-dance-gif-5359901

[bold birch]

can anyone could tell me how to turn the dark theme in thm web pages pls, my eyes will thank you a lot

[sand trench]

personally use the extension named dark reader

it applies dark themes for basically all websites with little drawback

[karmic furnace]

I've had some sites that it absolutely hates.

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/ferret-thief-steal-yoink-take-out-gif-17356971

[sand trench]

that is why it has an easy turn off for this site button

[bold birch]

thank you so much!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sand trench (current: #3 - 2010)

[sand trench]

and a few different modes for how it turns websites dark some which work better then others for some sites

[karmic furnace]

nah, when i want something dark, it just doesn't do anything 😛

[rapid merlin]

At some point in my life I had like 9 ferrets

[sand trench]

3 smol days until ploopy hardware arrives

[sand trench]

how the hell did you afford that

[rapid merlin]

I fully fed them steak all the time too

😮

fancy

People would say to me all the time my ferrets ate better than them

[sand trench]

thor feeds them chicken and turkey and duck and eggs

[rapid merlin]

I used to cut up liver for them too

Liver stinks

[sand trench]

^ thor being from the piratesoftware twitch person and responsible for ferretsoftware

[rapid merlin]

lol

[sand trench]

liverpate is tasty

[rapid merlin]

Yeah

But fresh from the butchers

🤢

[sand trench]

obligate carnivores need carnivore diet

which confuses shadow why people give cats so much food with vegetables in it

[grizzled wing]

has the typo already been reported?

[rapid merlin]

Yeah it’s weird

[grizzled wing]

"If you want to more about sandboxes, have a look at the room FlareVM: Arsenal of Tools."

[sand trench]

good spot veggies

[grizzled wing]

if you want to [missing] more ...

[sand trench]

go report in #room-bugs

[grizzled wing]

ok

[rapid merlin]

Sometimes I would sleep next to my ferrets and then one day I woke up with one on the end of my nose

[grizzled wing]

: )

[rapid merlin]

Which hurts more than one on the end of your toe

ouch

[grizzled wing]

that is a ouch sandwich with extra pickles

[rapid merlin]

😄

I am actually trying to think of what to have for dinner

kinda want to go out yet not sure where yet

[rapid merlin]

Yeah you don’t want to get bitten by a ferret

I bet not

[grizzled wing]

my deafult value is sandwiches

[sand trench]

shadow want ploopy stuff to arrive quicker but no solution to speed up time

[rapid merlin]

Extra spicy bite 😂

[grizzled wing]

time for ploopy flopr florp?

[sand trench]

sugarglider bites are worse

[sand trench]

hahaha no ploopy.co is a canadian open source hardware company

[rapid merlin]

I’ve never been bitten by one but ferret bites go down to the bone

[grizzled wing]

ha

[blazing granite]

🥦

[grizzled wing]

what do ferrets eat naturally?

[sand trench]

unless you somehow teach a ferret not to bite you very hard compared to other ferrets

[grizzled wing]

🦖

[rapid merlin]

Meat

[sand trench]

meat and eggs

they don't have degestive systems for anything else really

[digital mesa]

Hi

[grizzled wing]

had no idea

[sand trench]

meat including most organs from small animals they can take out

like turkies

[rapid merlin]

Yeah you can get them to not bite as hard but sometimes you just come across an aggressive ferret. I had one that never ever bite and one who was a retired hunter so he was aggressive af

[grizzled wing]

red team ferrets

[rapid merlin]

Ferrets hunt rabbits

oh!

[grizzled wing]

interesting

[rapid merlin]

They put the ferrets down the hole

[grizzled wing]

did not expect to learn about ferrets today but here we are

[silver sky]

Because I'm too big for the hole. Just small enough for your chimney!

Ho ho ho

[rapid merlin]

He didn’t hunt for me btw! I bought him as a retired hunter. They didn’t want him anymore because he was old

[grizzled wing]

🧠 += 1 wrinkle

[rapid merlin]

Fml

What

[sand trench]

@mossy river

[grizzled wing]

blocked and reported

[mossy river]

Come on... keep it appropriate please...

[lost glade]

well, hi guys
(Again saying the context of the message as I realized something new)
I paused my subscription on 30th of November due to college overly taking my time schedule, and I realised that now I am free. Is there anyway to renew my subscription instead of waiting until Dec 30th? I tried clicking cancel my subscirption button and it tells me "Your subscription is currently paused."
I tried inspecting the site and got this from the browser console: https://imgur.com/a/iOppUrv
Can the problem be resolved from my side??

[grizzled wing]

#site-support

[tall stag]

Sorry

Just joke

I don’t do again

[lost glade]

ah sorry I thought I was there😭

[boreal scarab]

@sand trench How is it not meep moop time?

[grizzled wing]

its ok

[clear jackal]

No, that would need to go to actual support I would think

[grizzled wing]

site then help?

[clear jackal]

Email THM Support for help with your subscription, [e-mail]

[grizzled wing]

nice to see a username i am familiar with

[lost glade]

emailed them 3 days ago, no response

[clear jackal]

There is a backlog

[sand trench]

well sleep is bleepy bloopy

[silver sky]

Be patient 😀

[rapid merlin]

I waited a little over 48 hours once, yet did get a response and issue resolved

[clear jackal]

If you email them more than once, your ticket goes to the back of the queue each time

[grizzled wing]

when did Santa get buff?

[boreal scarab]

ahhhh

[boreal scarab]

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide

[sand trench]

i.e shadows sleep is messed up because of hallucinations

[lost glade]

I emailed just once, I knew that from @sick lance

[boreal scarab]

Stop smoking all that crap, bad

Bad Shadow, bad

[lost glade]

I don't know whether to email them again or wait

[silver sky]

Santa actually was always buff. Just always seen as fat because after cookies and milk I get bloated

[rapid merlin]

I would wait

[silver sky]

Wait unless you want to be placed to the back of the queue

[lost glade]

[grizzled wing]

haha , okay, then afterwards hit the gym for weight lifting

[sand trench]

that is the fun part.... shadow has never been high on anything except morphine during apendix removal and that felt like poop

[grizzled wing]

remote appendix removal code execution

[sand trench]

none drug induced psychosis is apparently kinda rare

[silver sky]

Meh

[grizzled wing]

cyber security is a drug

[sand trench]

if you cast that as a curse on someone shadow would be worried

[rapid merlin]

@sand trench it can really depend on the person and what is going on brain chemistry wise

[grizzled wing]

how would my silly code idea even work?

[rapid merlin]

definitely can be a dopamine high feeling from solving a puzzle or even learning new things 🙂

[sand trench]

yeah shadows brain is apparently not stimulated enough so it stimulates itself with things that don't exist

[boreal scarab]

[rapid merlin]

psychosis is possible without external substances

[grizzled wing]

getting rev shell working is really nice. my favorite is cracking passwords

[lost glade]

can filling this form be considered as sending an email to support? https://tryhackme.com/r/contact

[rapid merlin]

right? 🙂

[boreal scarab]

Oh, I love when someone phish's me, or... attempts to.
My line is always:

Went phishing but ya didn't get a byte. That sucks to be you

[sand trench]

would think so

[rapid merlin]

it's like buried treasure!

[lost glade]

because I just realised that this is all what I did

[lost glade]

I hope so

[lost glade]

But I feel not
because I got an email immediatly afterwards from [e-mail] not [e-mail]

[grizzled wing]

you feel not green frog ?

[lost glade]

maybe

[sand trench]

those 2 are linked

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-kermit-the-frog-kermit-meme-kermit-the-frog-meme-gif-1455131691931642902

[rapid merlin]

@lost glade you are able to hang out here until you get a response 🙂

[grizzled wing]

Kermit + MIss Piggy 🐷

[rapid merlin]

classic

[lost glade]

hurray

[grizzled wing]

this discord is 24/7

[lost glade]

I mean I just realised Metasploit module is not all free so I can't finish it know as I planned😭

[rapid merlin]

awww 😦

you are looking forward to finishing it

[grizzled wing]

but you can watch other do it , live vicariously !

[lost glade]

reminds me of codeforces editorials

I hate that site

[grizzled wing]

gives you time to look around metasploit, there is lots there

[rapid merlin]

totally

[lost glade]

since Im hanging here for a minute, I had a question that I was gonna post on reddit anyways

What should I really do after THM

[grizzled wing]

HTB

[lost glade]

like after finishing the Red Team Path

[grizzled wing]

TCM

Port Swigg

[blazing granite]

WSET

[grizzled wing]

ACK

[sand trench]

build an evil stub your toe inator and set it loose on people in the office

[blazing granite]

AOC

[rapid merlin]

there are tons of rooms post red team, not to mention the possibility of creating rooms as well

[lost glade]

RST😭

[grizzled wing]

ahh dropped sugar packets

[lost glade]

[lost glade]

Hope I can reach the level of knowledge to create a room myself one day

[grizzled wing]

i made a room, but it was a duplicate so it was not approved

[sand trench]

not to hard if you can think up a kill chain or some figuring out what happened from logs room

shadows and vains cheese ctf made it through

[grizzled wing]

oh the long thread on cheese -> room for cheese CTF

[lost glade]

hmmm interesting

[gleaming bear]

she/they?

[ornate knot]

hi!!

[gleaming bear]

Hello!

Welcome in

[grizzled wing]

yea

[gleaming bear]

how

[grizzled wing]

seriously?

[gleaming bear]

😂

[grizzled wing]

0x3 level jokes

[gleaming bear]

I have another account Hacker, but I did another one to practice specifec paths

[rapid merlin]

does anyone put on specific music depending on the kind of challenge they are about to face or work through?

[gleaming bear]

but I know that it's she/her

[grizzled wing]

enjoy being blocked!

[clever meadow]

No, generally my focus is lost despite the type of music i play

[gleaming bear]

??

[lost glade]

yeah I play shinsuke nakamura entrance theme in survivor series when anything is too hard

[clever meadow]

I would add some disturbance sound to concentrate better, idk works ironically.

[rapid merlin]

true sometimes silence is the sound needed

or white noise

"the color of television tuned to a dead channel" 😎

[sand trench]

welp shadow is gonna go try for sleeps sloops to the beep boops for the meep moops nowsies

[rose tusk]

have an easy night peeps ~

roses are red
violets are blue
I'm going to sleep
so should you

[boreal scarab]

8:24 PM, NEVER

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-please-coffee-coffee-time-gif-27162276

[rose tusk]

ok boomer

https://tenor.com/view/baby-yoda-the-child-mandalorian-fast-ride-gif-19159871

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/im-a-millennial-robert-geraldino-robertidk-thats-what-a-millennial-would-do-a-typical-millennial-gif-22159900

[grizzled wing]

salt typhoon 🧂

[rapid merlin]

I cut down on drinking coffee by putting in half the coffee in the pot, now I drink 2 pots of coffee 🤓

[grizzled wing]

that is caffeine sandwich

[blazing granite]

all this coffee talk, make me want an espresso 😂

[grizzled wing]

🦖 pressed

[boreal scarab]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSCU8ildaA

[grizzled wing]

nice

[boreal scarab]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO BACK THE FUCK UP

What the fuc kkinda resolution are you running?

Or fucking zoom

50000% zoom?

Jesus

[blazing granite]

quick photo 😂

one hand with the cup the other hand with the mobile, result the photo was shite 😛

[rapid merlin]

no one has made a coffee roasting simulator video game yet have they?

checks

[tall stag]

Bestfriend

[rapid merlin]

a few attempts it seems

[boreal scarab]

@loud marlin you alive?

Need to send you a gif in DM's

[loud marlin]

kinda y

oh dear lol

[blazing granite]

secret gif exchange 😂 😛

[blazing granite]

coffee and me, yes

[oblique loom]

Legit taken from almost the same position, but 10 years apart. Austin, TX 2014 - 2024

When I lived there almost no skyline cept like 3 buildings

Anyhoo! I decided to go back to school and get my bachelor's in cybersecurity and information assurance

[severe nova]

Yippeee

Thats what I am majoring in

[rapid merlin]

quite the difference in that skyline

[oblique loom]

No lie Austin grew by stupid fast levels in a very short time

It's a technological hub

[rapid merlin]

oh that will do it

Shenzhen had interesting growth as well afaik

[oblique loom]

It's weird seeing cities grow and change so quickly

The culture shifts

[rapid merlin]

I hear ya

sometimes gentrification

[rapid merlin]

seeing that u have the max rank in thm why did u decide that? I assume u already have a job in cyber? Do you need it for promotions? Like are companies indecisive to promote / hire u bcs of no degree?

[oblique loom]

This is going to be a real answer, just give me a few mins, might be a long one. 🪵🔥🪵

[rapid merlin]

oh great thanks

[sage wolf]

Max Rank is stupid easy to achieve in THM.. you can just do a bunch of easy rooms to get there really, even I'm max rank but I am no where near credible yet to work in cyber at all

[rapid merlin]

You're telling me that after 100s of rooms you don't feel ready for entry level positions? Why would u say that..?

[oblique loom]

I've been on THM since 2021. I have done rooms from easy to insane. I think I have over 350(?) completed.

I decided to do this because it is what will have me qualify for (even) a entry-level analysis position. Also, more money in general if you're smart about it whether it works out in the end or not.

Outside training environments. I can't say much about my actual "formal" cybersecurity business. No, it's not illegal. But, I have what you can say is a high clearance client. We'll, it was a 2 month gig you could say.

[rapid merlin]

that picture reminded me of Eugene Tooms

[oblique loom]

@rapid merlin forgot to tag ya

[sage wolf]

I still struggle a lot and don't feel so confident yet, and I'm under the impression that I still need to have decent experience in IT in general, to even consider applying for entry-level cybersecurity, which I don't have atm..

[boreal scarab]

Who?

[tall stag]

Dudes,that’s gonna be very generally and classic question but macbook or laptop which one anyone prefer?

[oblique loom]

Linux

[rapid merlin]

because the image was stretched so much, it reminded me of a character from the 90s TV series X-Files, due to their ability to 'Squeeze' through places 😄

[sage wolf]

The majority use Windows with Linux on a virtual machine or as a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

[rapid merlin]

Interesting, have you tried applying to positions and got rejected or did you not apply out of fear of rejection bcs of no degree? Sec+ / BTL1 / CDSA are fairly easy certs if you got one of these I feel like you'd get offers?

[oblique loom]

I have 4 Linux OS laptops, most refurbished by me

[clear jackal]

THM, and other learning platforms, aren't really a reflection of real life.

[oblique loom]

Employers in my area want to see a bachelor's degree or your resume is going straight to the trash without inside help.

[granite narwhal]

@glass nest

I real tired really!!

[sage wolf]

I've just heard many many times that without just generic IT experience, you're going to have a harder time applying in cyber jobs, unless you're super lucky

[oblique loom]

I have almost 8 years of IT lol

[clear jackal]

You can use them to experiment or build a base, but your true learning will be OTJ

[oblique loom]

I ain't no green horn xD

[sage wolf]

Yeah 8 years is plenty, I just don't have anything

[granite narwhal]

Okay 😉 trying in the life is the best

[clear jackal]

Because cyber isn't entry level when you look at the computer industry as a whole

[oblique loom]

You will get there in time :)

[cobalt iron]

Whats up general, just joining for the night, hope everyone is well.

[tall stag]

This information is not exactly sad, but it remains true.

Bachelors degree

[clear jackal]

Because it's more than likely a contract requirement and or it looks good to prospective customers of the company

[rapid merlin]

Mad hat on YouTube has a pretty decent roadmap + tier list you could check out

[oblique loom]

It's just how it is

[rapid merlin]

Neither is college? Are we supposed to become IT Admins before entry level cybersec jobs?

[oblique loom]

Here where I am at, at least.

[clear jackal]

Degree is different for a few reasons, but this conversation is more for #cyber-and-careers

[cobalt iron]

Hi Polygon, there is, there is! they changed the site layout, but the SOC paths, I suspect that might be what you're looking for.

[oblique loom]

I will say working for the client I had was a true eye opener lol

[rapid merlin]

Another thing I feel like people don’t prioritize as much is making sure the resume really dresses up what you’ve accomplished, I recently got an offer for a decent paying IT job with sec+ and an internship (plus some other qualifications that were repellent. It not job skills related)

[granite narwhal]

🔥

[oblique loom]

Depends, it's all on one's area

One's connections

I have been told by employers that my resume is good but I don't have a bachelor's

It happens

[rapid merlin]

I've had work from going for coffee being a listener, and from sending syn packets with a payload to trigger an IDS during a demo (ascii marketing, thanks snort)

so it can really vary

doing what I love seems to increase my odds for doing what I love

[cobalt iron]

That shouldn't be real @oblique loom - sorry to hear

[lost birch]

That's so sad :/ What kind of experience did u have

[rapid merlin]

Honestly go for Sec+ then CDSA or BL1 (preferably CDSA) and go apply, entry level soc is not that hard I did an interview few days ago, If you can pass CDSA and u finish the THM SOC L1 path ure more than qualified

idk why u think u need a degree for it

it helps in marketing

[lost birch]

Wdym

[rapid merlin]

but u won't get rejected without one, just try

[oblique loom]

My best bet, is getting my bachelor's in cybersecurity then moving onto the next step. But the bachelor's is what will unlock the door

[rapid merlin]

I have been hired in tech so many times without a resume or HR interview

[rapid merlin]

True, another thing for everyone to remember is that this is a very competitive field, I had to do like 50 different job applications just to finally get an offer

connections and simply doing what I love

[clear jackal]

Tbh, post your redacted resume in #cyber-and-careers

[oblique loom]

Why?

[clear jackal]

8 years in IT with something like Sec+ should be enough

Because it's good to get feedback on how it can be improved?

[oblique loom]

Not where I'm at

But if you guys' want to see it sure

[rapid merlin]

this is peak level imposter syndrome

[sage wolf]

With 8 years of IT wouldn't the degree become less relevant at this point?

[clear jackal]

Yeah, just make sure it's redacted. There are weirdos on the internet

[clear jackal]

Typically, yes

It really depends on the industry you're supporting

[rapid merlin]

I want to learn the math behind data encryption and see what positions that opens up, short term would probably be soc analyst and maybe pen testing after that. What about you?

[sudden bridge]

@mossy river can i dm

[mossy river]

Go for it

[oblique loom]

How you like your data cooked sir? PDF or PNG?

Lol

[clear jackal]

PNG

I don't want to download anything lol

[rapid merlin]

can I have my PNG with PDF on the side?

saviors of humanity after superman ai robots take over earth and we have to hack them to save it

[rapid merlin]

Transformers 2060

[clear jackal]

I would avoid cert hunting, it can be a negative

[rapid merlin]

WGU has a pretty intense program but everyone I’ve met who goes there says it’s worth because you get so much bang for your buck if you work hard. I didnt hear about the school till I was more than halfway done with my degree somewhere else and with all my transferred credits it would have went down to like 16% completed with wgu

I feel like collecting certs gives me the same kinda vibe as collecting Pokémon gym badges on the Nintendo games as a kid haha

what motivated you to get into cybersecurity?

[clear jackal]

Yes, a bunch of certifications and no professional experience doesn't really mean anything or help you. If you search in this discord's channels, Muiri and I have explained it in previous messages

[rapid merlin]

they mean skill > cert not that having certs is bad

[oblique loom]

It will be 2 files cause my resume 2x pages long

Where you want them again?

[rapid merlin]

right on 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @clear jackal (current: #19 - 480)

[rapid merlin]

Ya so they have you pay the whole tuition up front but you can take as many classes as you can manage in the 6 months you payed for, some can finish the degree in just like 2-3 terms apparently which is way shorter (and usually ends up being cheaper too from what I’ve heard) plus they have several programs where the classes specifically aim you towards gaining certs

[clear jackal]

#cyber-and-careers

[oblique loom]

Gotcha!

[rapid merlin]

what motivated me was playing video games with my Dad, and we were able to fix a saved game file using a hex editor

and then I learned how to edit the gold I was carrying 😮

I hear ya

things are possible!

opportunity etc.

That’s crazy, was his degree in IT? That’s a nuts pace haha. Plus another bonus from WGU is they don’t usually add many electives or GE classes that aren’t degree related so you have less classes to go through in average.

@clear jackal moose sir how come you're only 0x2 in THM?

[loud marlin]

skill issue 🙂

[clear jackal]

Just because

[oblique loom]

Resume posted

[quasi hedge]

What's the difference between sophia.org and doing it from wgu directly?

[knotty pendant]

What is the difference between ruby and Ruby on Rails

[rapid merlin]

one is a language, one is a web framework

[silver sky]

So how come you don't have a rank 😉

[rapid merlin]

santa can i have THM subscription for Christmas

wait until we keep pushing forward to find out the value is a signed integer 😄

[knotty pendant]

[oblique loom]

Ultimate lazy?

Thanks xD

Like legit, 3k

I got it on a sale tho

And with credit

It's a powerful little laptop lol

RTX 4080 :D

Gaming ^_^

I study on a 2022 Asus Predator Helios 300, fully imaged eith kali ^_^

With*

I also have two other dormant laptops

Dormant as in I don't use them anymore

Newegg is where I got them cause they were both refurbished devices :)

They are my old pentest/lap machines

Give me sec, I have thing

These are my 3x pentest laptops

Ordered from least powerful to most on the right.

Yes :D

[sudden bridge]

he hacks nasa

[oblique loom]

They run kali and all needed software

Just fine no issues

They have been used in the field

I started with it ^_^

ThinkPad is xcef

Middle is kde

And rightside is gnome

I love Linux as long as it's Debian-based lol

It fits me most natural :)

TV station bedroom lol

I need more mounts xD

That monitor basic xD

That I can't answer with a straight forward response

No worries, it's totally fine 🙂

[pale haven]

oi!

[oblique loom]

Bark! :D

[tall stag]

Omg

[oblique loom]

It can get hot in that room

Lol

[tall stag]

My dude was born for cyber security.

[oblique loom]

If you go with Lenovo, older gen ThinkPad are good battle weapons

That Asus Predator tho be my 7.62 bolt action baby ^_^

And when I turn my MSI Raider into my next pentest device

Holy shit lol

[tall stag]

I think I’m gonna buy the msi crosshair or the other laptop which has the same brand and graphic card but ram is upgraded to 32 GB.

[oblique loom]

MG42 off the bat

The Raider is 64 RAM

[tall stag]

Omg

But every laptops is possible to upgrade ram right?

[oblique loom]

For the most part, yes.

[tall stag]

I think msi gonna be ready for this

[oblique loom]

Depends tho

[tulip heath]

Good morning fellas

[tall stag]

Good morning

[oblique loom]

I have one active pentest laptop

The other 2x are dormant

[tall stag]

My dude is collecting computers for him collection’s

[oblique loom]

They are old machines I used to work with

But have since upgraded

No

Not at all

[tall stag]

I saw yes but even though that is older still better

[oblique loom]

It can be slow tho co.pared to GPU if it's hashcat

[tall stag]

Bro is next george hotz

[tulip heath]

I wanted to learn OSINT, I have the book OSINT Techniques: Resources for uncovering online information. But it is too long. Is there any other resources to learn OSINT framework?

[oblique loom]

Yes

Hold on

[tulip heath]

👍🏻

[oblique loom]

This

[tulip heath]

This is what I was talking about 🤣

[oblique loom]

The 2nd one

[tulip heath]

Ok👍🏻

[oblique loom]

The 2nd is pretty legit

[tulip heath]

Thanks @oblique loom

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @oblique loom (current: #1619 - 2)

[oblique loom]

These too

[tall stag]

Oh my god

[tulip heath]

I've heard a lot about blackhat python. Should I read it?

[oblique loom]

Yes, if you want to iron out your scripting technique

It's nothing hard and crazy

[tulip heath]

Thanks, I'll start reading them after TryHackMe

Bye then fellas

[oblique loom]

Cybersecurity cat

[grizzled wing]

black cat

[oblique loom]

I do both tbh

[buoyant coyote]

vc anyone?

[grizzled wing]

venture capital, naw hahah

[buoyant coyote]

voice call 🙂

[rapid merlin]

tcm

and thm

[oblique loom]

Kevin Mitnick (tho the book is old) still has some key info with social engineering

Pretty much all he did lol

Found more books under a piece of cloth. Lol

Highly recommend

[rapid merlin]

i tried reading books but I die after a few pages

even some htb academy modules feels like reading a book

[smoky knoll]

@rapid merlin @buoyant coyote yoo why is your vc locked

?

[rapid merlin]

thm is simple i like it

[buoyant coyote]

verified ?

[oblique loom]

THM is best cause you're actually doing the techniques

[smoky knoll]

how do you do that? can you help pls

[oblique loom]

It's one to reas something. It's another to do it

[rapid merlin]

u do the techniques in htb too but there's so much text I die midway

[oblique loom]

I have not really tried HTB

[rapid merlin]

i think thm has done a great job at explaining things fast

[oblique loom]

THM has taught me more than all I've learned in college getting my associates in CS tbh

[rapid merlin]

oh same and that's after doing like 10 rooms maybe

[oblique loom]

Wait till you knock out 300+ :D

[rapid merlin]

tbf cs is wide range of topics so not very focused on cyber

25% of our lessons were math

[sinful drift]

how do I run a html file?

[oblique loom]

I was a Sys Admin and Network majot

Major*

[rapid merlin]

I have yet to see a Karnaugh map on THM 😄

[rapid merlin]

i don't want to see it again

[sinful drift]

how do I run a html file? Like I wanna open a HTML/Run it rn but idk how

[oblique loom]

One thing I will say about cybersecurity, don't get intimidated even tho it can be like that at times. Lol

[rapid merlin]

https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html

[rapid merlin]

you usually view a HTML document using a web browser

[oblique loom]

If you have to use a walk-through that's ok. But learn from it. That's what matters in the end.

[sinful drift]

HOWWW

[sinful drift]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @supple forum (current: #1619 - 2)

[rapid merlin]

when you want to learn any programming (or markup) language fast codecademy is the place

[oblique loom]

Right-clivk it and open it with your preferred web browser

[sinful drift]

I did, nothing happend...

[rapid merlin]

https://orlybooks.com/books/changing-stuff-and-seeing 😄

[oblique loom]

Does the file say .html? As the extension? Also which browser

[sinful drift]

it says

mylocation.html

[oblique loom]

That should be accessible via a browser then

[sinful drift]

won't tell me anything else?

[rapid merlin]

books are very time consuming even if u read fast I've tried so many programming learning platforms codecademy is by far the fastest, straight to the point, learned how to build a webscraper in like 2 days with minimal studying (not that it's hard)

[oblique loom]

If not, maby curl it

[sinful drift]

k

[rapid merlin]

the more you learn the easier they get to learn

[sinful drift]

nope

do I need to install something to view it?

[oblique loom]

Open in Chrome (if available) or try Firefox (again, if available).

[sinful drift]

nothing

shows me, 0

[rapid merlin]

@oblique loom btw I'm giving A+ core 1 in a few days for fun, since u work in IT i was wondering have you memorized every single fking cable name and what it does? I'm studying the materials it's impossible to memorize everything

and then u have to memorize usb speeds, raid arrays... how the fk

[oblique loom]

Cable name? Like, coaxial cable or CAT5e cable?

[sinful drift]

NVM I GOT IT

AYYYY

[oblique loom]

Nice!

[rapid merlin]

nah like different types of cables and what they do and their standards so SATA cables, USB Type A, Type C, Type B, HDMI etc etc.

[oblique loom]

SATA is for hard drives, USB A is the basic 'black' (aka slow of slow) usb.

[sinful drift]

YUP

[rapid merlin]

they even have some ancient ones like molex and db89 whatever that is

i took screenshots

[oblique loom]

PS1 is old

That was when the mouse had a ball in it

[rapid merlin]

it had a ball?

[oblique loom]

Yes

I know

[rapid merlin]

nope

type A is the cable

[oblique loom]

That's what they look like

[rapid merlin]

the standards are 1.1 white, 2.0 black, 3.0 blue, 3.1 teal i think

i still don't remember

[oblique loom]

You are correct

However!

What is yellow >:D

[rapid merlin]

charging

yellow or orange

[oblique loom]

Yup! ^_^

[rapid merlin]

when they say charging what do they mean though

[oblique loom]

See, you go it!

Got*

[loud marlin]

this...

[oblique loom]

^

The ball

[rapid merlin]

i sure hope so bcs any question they ask for printers I'll get it wrong

I'll flip a coin

[rapid merlin]

stealing from museum is not cool bro

[oblique loom]

Just don't overthink it, it can be easy to get into your own head.

[rapid merlin]

[oblique loom]

Just never give up, there's a lot of would-be cybersecurity enthusiasts that end up quiting cause they find it too difficult.

It can be intimidating, yea, but it is achievable.

[rapid merlin]

oh no I have cbbh already and going for cdsa for a job position

a+ is just for fun but it's harder than I thought

memorizing all cables / connectors and what each does

[oblique loom]

Oh, nice nice!

[rapid merlin]

and then display screens

and printers

i don't even use a printer that much

[oblique loom]

Printer is USB-B

Looks like a square

[rapid merlin]

no i mean troubleshooting printers

it's in the exam

[oblique loom]

OSI model :)

That will help

Every time I troubleshoot anything, I try to go by the OSI

Physical layer then up to Application

[rapid merlin]

https://quizlet.com/182805346/comptia-a-printers-quiz-flash-cards/

if u click on flash cards u will see some bs questions

idk why they have those

im a little scared

windows xp came out when i was born

[oblique loom]

I can answer 75% of those questions just from the first 5x I read

[rapid merlin]

oh damn

[oblique loom]

Printer page is PCL

The Windows XP got me too, no worries.

Nobody uses XP lol

0.o

[rapid merlin]

pov you haven't given your cat fish for a week

[oblique loom]

He goes crazy for tuna

Real crazy lol

[rapid merlin]

i can see it

@oblique loom I'm curious

do u know what usb 4 is

without looking on google

🧐

[oblique loom]

Faster than USB-3 but not as good as USB-C

[rapid merlin]

wrong

uses usb c cables

with thunderbolt 3 protocol apparently

[oblique loom]

I have never heard of that actually lol

[rapid merlin]

and up to 40 gbps

while usb c is capped at 20 gbps apparently

[oblique loom]

Isn't thunderbolt Apple technology?

[rapid merlin]

no that's lightning port

[oblique loom]

Ah

[rapid merlin]

see I'm confused too

[oblique loom]

I see the trickiness

[rapid merlin]

i feel like i would have an easier time giving sec+ than a+

[oblique loom]

Sec+ was fairly easy tbh

Then again, it is kinda basic cybersecurity knowledge xD

[buoyant coyote]

vc anyone?

[earnest lagoon]

hi !

[spare flower]

hi!

[cloud quiver]

Welcome 😄

[cloud quiver]

Welcome 🙂

[shy forge]

@cloud quiver my bro how are you

[cloud quiver]

Thanks for asking 🙂 . Good , how are you 🙂 ?

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @shy forge (current: #1619 - 2)

[shy forge]

Food

Doog

Good

Dang, this typp

Typo

[cloud quiver]

Glad to hear that , have a nice day 😄

[shy forge]

@cloud quiver have so solve sandboxes challenge?

[ebon herald]

Hey @KGB

[cloud quiver]

Yes I have if that's what are you asking 😄

[cloud quiver]

Hey , how are you 🙂 ?

[shy forge]

have you created. any room?

[ebon herald]

I Am facing a problem, as a root user i tried chattr, chmod, umount...echo taking input but not reflecting in king.txt

[cloud quiver]

No I haven't 🙂

[ebon herald]

How pro player locked it??
Did they use while loop?

[shy forge]

most probablu someone upgrade their defances

[ebon herald]

How??

[cloud quiver]

Try to ask these guys https://discord.com/channels/521382216299839518/695343809726513292 😄

[shy forge]

go to #koth

[ebon herald]

Hey KGB my id is VladimirovichPutin😁😁

I love his attitude ❤️❤️

Koth showing done reading? goto general #koth

[rapid merlin]

Yess im verified again

And now I'm going to sleep

[cloud quiver]

Good night buddy 😄

[rapid merlin]

U2

[molten sky]

https://tenor.com/view/u2-south-park-s18e10-happy-holograms-merry-christmas-gif-19430556

[cloud quiver]

Thanks , but we're waking up now 😄

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @true marten (current: #201 - 35)

[rapid merlin]

morning kgb

[worthy plaza]

Hi everyone...

[pliant cairn]

its almost christmas

damn

time flies

[rose tusk]

when you try to find the zip password

have an easy day guys ~

[gray sonnet]

Morning THM

[cloud quiver]

Good morning 🙂

[cloud quiver]

Welcome 🙂

[buoyant coyote]

vc anyone?

[gray sonnet]

What's this new thing that's popping up on chrome...

[pliant cairn]

when you wait for an hour in the office on a monday and only 12 minutes passes

[solemn blade]

Good morning yall, i wish you all a good day 🎉

[pliant cairn]

but when you wait for a 3 minute on a saturday and its evening already

[wheat mesa]

Hello guys, did anyone have a problem with Burpsuite for DAY 5
The webpage is not loading in both Attackbox and Openvpn

[rapid merlin]

hyd this morning

l

[raw shore]

good morning hackers

[rapid merlin]

],

fixed my spacebar yay

[cloud quiver]

Turn off Interceptor in Burp 🙂

[cloud quiver]

Thanks for asking , good . How are you 🙂 ?

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @wanton ridge (current: #288 - 20)

[rapid merlin]

Good, about to do my 5 minutes of monkeytype a day

[pliant cairn]

was your spacebar not spacebarring?

[rapid merlin]

it was being weird

something got caugh under it

looked like a piece of my cats fur lmao

guessing he was up on my desk last night and somehow a piece of fur got under

[rapid merlin]

Starting exploitation basics today so yay

[cloud quiver]

Enjoy 😄

[rapid merlin]

will do, gonna wake up for an hr or so first though

[wheat mesa]

My bad

[coral marten]

How to connect vpn

[cloud quiver]

https://tryhackme.com/r/room/openvpn

Check out this article 😄

[coral marten]

Linux fundamental which place to start

[hushed wren]

Hey Guys

I need some help with my project

[true urchin]

how many tasks will there be in the side quest

[rose tusk]

5 I think

[true urchin]

so the ying and yang is the last one?

[rose tusk]

thats 1 box, there's 3 more

[true urchin]

Ah alright thank you for the info

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @rose tusk (current: #268 - 22)

[rose tusk]

pleasure 🙏

[true urchin]

😀

[sinful moon]

umm are you exposing your updog server this way? That looks like that may be the case. I don’t want to dig too deeply but yeah as the software mentions updog is not meant for production use cases

[true urchin]

do you think it's worth for me to try the side quest I am a beginner

[sinful moon]

You can at least try. Judging just from last years however, they will be very difficult, I have not tried this years yet

We can’t help with what we aren’t told about, what’s up

[true urchin]

Alright well all I know is that you have to get some card in the beginner friendly event.

[hushed wren]

Only for personal uses
You know sometime it is to get one or two files fast and easy

[sinful moon]

lol better than last year where you had to piece four QR codes together to even access the side quest, but I did think that was neat

[sinful moon]

Um, yeah like I said updog is great for quick temporary use but is not intended to be a production server. If you do need to serve files permanently in a production/professional manner, I would recommend a more robust server.

[sinful moon]

Although re-reading your message, there may be a language barrier and if so, I’m sorry

[hushed wren]

Then what other than Flask WSGI server

[sinful moon]

lol it finds it in my Markdown notes and more so understandable. Never heard of it finding it in browser logs though so that is a bit funny. You can make exclusions but consumer grade Defender is a bit of a pain to work with tbh

[sinful moon]

lol that I can’t answer, I’m not a professional web dev, I just know that updog is not what you should rely on for production file hosting.

I would just recommend more research, but… it looks like you already have a github profile… so…

[hushed wren]

Ohhh 👌

[hushed wren]

I would I guess

[sinful moon]

yeah lol you can just use github raw file hosting for some use cases and github.io hosting if you really need a landing page

[hushed wren]

Seems like this room couldn't help

[sinful moon]

I just did lol, unless you mean a THM room

[hushed wren]

First it is a binary file

For personal use only

Not the PRODUCTION use case

[sinful moon]

then why are you publishing it under a public URL?

to be fair I didn’t try to download it, but…

[hushed wren]

For distribution

Binary

[sinful moon]

you should have better methods of doing so

lol gg defender

yeah I get it, I see similar when my EDR catches things like that

[sick lance]

Are you using Windows for this?

[hushed wren]

??

@sinful moon

[sinful moon]

my next line is the response

there are better ways to distribute files to yourself without public URLs

[sick lance]

People who make exlusions on their host files for hacking reasons make me smile.

[sinful moon]

such as updog via a VPN or something… updog just shouldn’t be a permanant file host to the public internet

[hushed wren]

How 🥺

[hushed wren]

But it is only personal use on a local environment

[sinful moon]

okay but can everyone download it with how you have it configured?

sorry these two convos are getting crossed, I’m mostly responding to null rn. You’re fine

[hushed wren]

The configurations
Some are default at run time and some are customized accordingly to preference

[sinful moon]

wait what

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #35 - 245)

[steel aspen]

I really regret applying for my course but I feel like it's going to help me with getting into cyber security

[sinful moon]

Are you really exposing configurations to the internet? That is extremely dangerous

[steel aspen]

But I'm doing microsoft office stuff right at the basics again, I'm not good with formatting or making stuff like that look good. My comprehension is not great at all lol. Never know what they intend to mean.

[sinful moon]

lol I will poke at your link and look around if you don’t mind

[hushed wren]

No nothing is exposed to public internet
All the things done on localhost only

[sinful moon]

Can already say this is extremely poor operational security even if you are using it just for your self

[hushed wren]

Yeap

[hushed wren]

Yeap 🥲

[sinful moon]

lol all of your socials, ongoing projects and more and that was within 30 seconds of digging

[hushed wren]

@sinful moon I am BTech CSE student so I kinda make my own SEO on google

Trying

[sinful moon]

This is just why I’d not recommend this kind of setup for transfering infosec related material for whatever reason

SEO gags good luck, you’re my least favorite part of search engine if so c:

[hushed wren]

Yea I know

But I am constantly try to improve it

[sinful moon]

Do you literally host LinkOtter via updog?

[thick mortar]

hey

[hushed wren]

Linkotter is the binary name

Under the hood the Technology is Updog

[sinful moon]

yeah it’s in your project listing…

[hushed wren]

Yeap

[sinful moon]

I just meant are you using updog to host it, but this is looking slightly less likely with your github infra

[hushed wren]

No

I just use git to publish the binary

[sinful moon]

if LinkOtter is forked off of updog then no problem, and yeah same with github for hosting

I apologize for the misunderstanding

I thought you were using updog to host important things yourself

[hushed wren]

No that not problem

[sinful moon]

Anyways let’s scroll back to Lean’s issue

[thick mortar]

hey i just have a question

[sinful moon]

Oh just Windows Defender being dumb… yeah that’s kind of unavoidable without another security product lol

[hushed wren]

It just works like that you connect your PC with your mobile hotspot and then you are able to view the choosen folder in your mobile

[sinful moon]

That’s fair but requires very many moving and vulnerable parts, I do hope you are thinking about the security in each step

[hushed wren]

Yea I keep some security like using SSL

But the problem with the port number

[sinful moon]

Yep remidnds me of all the false positives I get, just wild it shows up for browser logs but I don’t use Opera. Just add exclusions and move on tbh

[dense grove]

Wsp guys

[hushed wren]

After one use if application is close the same port couldn't be used again @sinful moon

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #35 - 246)

[hushed wren]

And need to assign new port

[sinful moon]

No problem, yeah on my personal machine I just use Defender and deal with it lol. It likes to fight my own notes about infosec and highly compressed demoscene executables lol

[glass nest]

Agreed.

[sinful moon]

It’s usually only the page on reverse shells tbh

nbd after adding that to an exclusion

gbs?

oh lol

I was going wild thinking about Gameboys or potentially what we may have in our profiles that was similar

Anyways can’t complain, but that’s why we’re here, we all help each other out

[sinful moon]

That is a bit more of a programming and operating system limitation you will have to work around that is beyond me tbh. I can just say if you program this properly you should not have this problem of your program just giving up the port

[north oasis]

it really helps you discussing topics

[sinful moon]

For sure, always helps to bounce ideas off of like minded people, so no problem!

[hushed wren]

Thanks🙏🙏🙏🙏

[north oasis]

how you guys got interested on cybersecurity

[sick lance]

Doing 90's/early 00's hacking

[sinful moon]

No problem, I’m sure there’s guidelines for reserving TCP/IP ports open and keeping them that way for the purpose of a service and similar

[north oasis]

damnnn

you are a OG

[sinful moon]

literally the same, although I will admit I skew a bit more to early 00s on that spectrum

[north oasis]

it was better arround that time?

[sinful moon]

nope!

[north oasis]

well you didnt have many resources

[sinful moon]

although depends in what way lol

[glass nest]

I don't think I have the shades or.. well any of the clothes appropriate for that

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/hack-the-planet-gif-15624885

[north oasis]

in general

[sinful moon]

Yeah there was no real path to a career and significantly less resources… but if you are on the offensive side, lol no one knew what they were doing defensively

[glass nest]

https://tenor.com/view/hackers-jonny-lee-miller-diskette-gif-7105732

[north oasis]

i know around that time were many vulnerabilities like now, but they were not the same as now

maybe back in the days was very very hard

[sinful moon]

it was a bit more “wild west” if you will

[glass nest]

Lean - Check out hackthissite. Not quote 90's but certinaly early exploits

[devout palm]

Also check phrack.org

[sinful moon]

lol for sure both sites I used back then

I can’t speak of everything I did back then but one of the more fulfilling was learning Wifi cracking with a spare WRT54G router I had at the time

[glass nest]

Hehe, thats nice 🙂

[devout palm]

I would like to live in that era

[sinful moon]

nah we had airocrack-ng and etc even back then

[glass nest]

Nah. The tools were appropriate for the technology of the time period

[sinful moon]

getting into the 00s to be fair

[glass nest]

Kismet aswell, Though that's probably more 00's

[sinful moon]

but yeah we also had different tools indeed lol

heck yes

I still love Kismet

but thinking of things like Opthcrack and dem newly solved rainbow tables and etc

I’m sure c:

[glass nest]

Oh, rainbow tables. how I miss and don't miss thee

[sinful moon]

lol indeed

they were also absolutely hugeeeee for the time lol

even just to 5-6 characters

[glass nest]

Some of them are even big by todays standards

[sinful moon]

mhmm

[glass nest]

Difficulty was about the same as nowadays

The tools werent as comprehansive, but it was ok, as neither were the boxes, y'know?

[sinful moon]

lol I could tell you some stories about high school security of our Win XP + MacOS device combo enviroment but you can use your imagination, especially for IT that had transitioned from MacOS only

[glass nest]

Changing all the desktop wallpapers to an era-appropriate meme?

[sinful moon]

We can’t detail anything that is potentially unethical or suggestive to current students in this chat so I have to refrain

[glass nest]

'All your desktop are belong to us' for example

[sinful moon]

but holy heck if I new more about Active Directory, Group Policy and Windows Server 2003 R2… well I’m just glad I didn’t

best to just said I got in trouble multiple times lol

[glass nest]

Noir is the new black. Wait. that actually doesnt work...

[sinful moon]

lol yeah these were just light academic computer suspensions which ironically required me to bring my own device to continue my computer classes… which is counter intuitive lol

[north oasis]

schools are bad in terms of technology

[glass nest]

So Lean - Which bit of cybersec are you getting most into?

[sinful moon]

lol better line of questioning and topic

[rapid merlin]

morning elizabeth

[sinful moon]

wifi and radio concerns kinda first got me interested but I was always interested in OS fundamentals and more. Just quickly branched out into other fields myself

G’mornign c:

[glass nest]

I've always liked web stuff.

Thats good 🙂

[sinful moon]

lol nice, I do think it’s interesting but I’m so much better at system and network compromise than web. That is a weak point I’ve been striving to get better at

lol same same

I wouldn’t say hated, but I get that vibe

[glass nest]

I feel the same way about Windows and AD

[sinful moon]

that’s ez for me in comparison but fair helps I have professional experience there

[glass nest]

pff. Geek :p

[sinful moon]

but also lol, I am hosting websites… so that would also be helpful… but they’re borng static sites mostly so nothing I have to worry about professionally

[glass nest]

I dunno. just not a fan.

[north oasis]

you feel more comfortable with linux?

[glass nest]

Using a computer, windows is my daily driver. just in terms of hacking

[sinful moon]

Linux compromise is even easier c:

[glass nest]

@sick lance

[sinful moon]

But yeah that is a complaint I have

(thank you btw)

[sick lance]

@fierce jungle please don't post forms here, for the protection and privacy of our members.

[fierce jungle]

okay, if i remove the email part, will it be ok?

[sick lance]

No. 🙂