general

[tardy finch]

I got years of experience prior to the degree to draw upon

[mellow gull]

A degree is largely to prove you're dedicated to pursuing a task for a lengthy period of time.

Now certs, on the other hand—

[daring jackal]

dang, im working on tryhackme and have 4 courses on udemy that i bought on sale its a lot of hours but im trying to learn what i can

[rapid merlin]

you're telling me you'd rather higher someone with a college degree in cyber or someone with OSCP / OSCE3 and OSEE?

[shadow sphinx]

Apologies for asking about report work here. I was just trying to understand the root cause of such vulnerabilities. Appreciate all of your expert input!

[celest dirge]

Yeah, all my classes are more theory and a bit outdated in terms of content and barely any of it is practical. Hence, why I started using Tryhackme.

[mellow gull]

I wasn't being tricky, I'd prioritize the certs way more. They're direct proof, from reputable groups, of identifiable skill in a certain field.

[daring jackal]

thats funny because a couple people told me certs dont mean nothing lmao

[rapid merlin]

guys when tryhackme and htb teach u 5 times better the material the avg college / uni teaches u something is not right I'm just saying.. it's almost like they're better learning sources

[mellow gull]

You know how college degrees more or less come down to a final thesis that shows the peak of your studies and research?

[daring jackal]

man i love tryhackme especially the hands on aspect of it

[mellow gull]

Certs accomplish more or less the same thing but add on a sprinkle of field-proven effectiveness to the mix.

[daring jackal]

i totally agree, certs are usually more cheaper too

depending on the one you get

comptia+ bundles are expensive asl

[rose tusk]

uni materials and college stuff tend to go through vetting process so by the time it reaches the individual the materials might not be 100% matching reality

[rose tusk]

cheaper if you go via academic platform to get student discount (if applicable)

[mellow gull]

Eh you're usually looking at 400-600$ USD for your standard sec/soc certs (with some exceptions.) Still way cheaper than the full tuition at 7,000$ USD/semester

[daring jackal]

yeah youre right

[finite granite]

Do you really need to go ComptiaA+ --> CCNA --> Security ? Or are any other options a little bit more direct

[rose tusk]

but even with certs they don't mean a thing if you haven't done your own due dilligence and experience

[mellow gull]

Depends on what you're doing/pursuing?

[rapid merlin]

u can just do Network+ -> Sec+ or just CDSA (little bit harder than BTL1)

[rose tusk]

yeah, get some experience in IT and study for security to see if that's what you want to do

[devout palm]

It depends on how you spend your time in college too

[daring jackal]

that makes sense, one of the reasons im doing tryhackme, so i can actually learn the process on how to do things

im thinking about installing a virtual machine soon to practice

[finite granite]

I've done A+ / It was amazing for the basics, cannot complain. But I just feel like I memorised a lot of information that I don't know when or how to apply . Are the other 2 a bit more practical?

[polar holly]

Guys I'm so excited. I'm finally sub 100k. 2.5k positions to go to sub 90k. Current goal is to reach the 75k mark end of the year.

[finite granite]

looking into it. Thank you!!!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @supple forum (current: #841 - 5)

[rapid merlin]

I find it interesting when people invest a lot of time in trying to find the most optimized path to a career ticket. Being persistent in doing something you love to do can sometimes be more rewarding.

[rapid merlin]

I'm studying A+ cuz I bought a voucher maybe 8 months ago and I keep rescheduling it cuz I can't bother . You don't need A+ in cyber trust it's very easy but u don't need to know cable types, screen technologies and how to troubleshoot printers

[shut hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/wreck-printer-electronics-destroy-smash-gif-12018621

[rapid merlin]

hahahaha

[celest dirge]

Thinking about going for the CDSA, how difficult do you think it might be? Or what's it like?

[daring jackal]

i hate troubleshooting printers

[rapid merlin]

so tryhackme SOC L1 path + HTB SOC path and u will be ready

[mellow gull]

A+ is a really good starting line. CCNA is really useful for generalized network understanding and teaches you the fundamentals of how network webs work, so if you're not confident in mapping I'd highly suggest it. Sec is always good to have, but can be substituted for other stuff imo

[rapid merlin]

I have yet to meet a person that lights up and gets really passionate about fixing printer issues. Unless it is like Office Space printer repair.

[finite granite]

I always try to optimize lolz. Its not necesarrly towards getting a fast path into a career. I just feel like there is a ton of information from different fields and I always don't know what I don't know. So feeling like always lagging behind makes you do that :)))

[celest dirge]

Alright, thanks.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @supple forum (current: #743 - 6)

[polar holly]

I have no trouble shooting a printer... Doubt the company would allow me near one afterward though... 🤣

[finite granite]

Roger, thanks!!

[daring jackal]

lmao

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/break-break-the-printer-printer-office-space-satire-gif-5701807

[rapid merlin]

the classic scene

[polar holly]

Ugggh brain be tired. Been going at THM rooms for a good 3 hours already. All so I can get to my Goal of 75kth

[polar holly]

stomp town

[rapid merlin]

I'm giving its 21 December but I've given CBBH already that one was tough, I don't expect CDSA to be tough just sneaky malwares in pcap files or in SIEM tools, will probably need to read query documentations but it's not rocket science, also I think THM SOC path is amazing it teaches so many tools so u get the idea from different perspectives

that is a good team building exercise

[mellow gull]

As far as the job market goes, your most useful weapon is knowledge. Knowing a lot about the common things will get you a better chance at a foot in the door, from there you start thinking about what you want long term. Blue teaming, red teaming, distro analysis, etc...

[polar holly]

you mean disco analysis

[mellow gull]

eek

[polar holly]

https://tenor.com/view/catjam-cat-disco-catjamming-gif-16989864924126703156

[tardy finch]

If I just need penetration tester for a security audit or penetration test I'd hire an oscp. If I need someone who can do various cybersecurity skills and roles probably someone with a degree and a few low tier infosec certs

[finite granite]

I'm not really fighting to get in the field yet. I have a pretty chill job that allows me time to learn. I just wanna learn as much as I can now, Its genuinely enjoyable lolz. I was asking about the Certs mainly bcs I wanted to find a learning path that makes sense difficulty wise.

[rapid merlin]

like what? entry roles are either soc analysts or penetration testers and there are certs for both

[polar holly]

@finite granite we in the same boat. Currently my job is paying me to be a full time student. So taking the time to go hardcore mode into studying as much and as varied as possible.

[tardy finch]

Cybersecurity isn't entry level . Typically you would want some IT certs or experience prior to doing cybersecurity work

[mellow gull]

Certs are like a tree. Pick a good base and slowly build up, maybe strangle a lesser tree to death and absorb their vital nutrients, you know

[rapid merlin]

I'm not saying cert > degree I'm saying it's proven experience on a subject while degree is general cybersec knowledge that u might've forgotten, hell I passed linear algebra in cs uni in first year I can't even explain u what it is

[finite granite]

So I gotta go fully Necromancer Druid multiclass, roger

[tardy finch]

Degree shows you can do academics and have a small amount if knowledge in various areas in technology. A cert shows you have alot of knowledge in one specific area.

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cam-cat-camera-cat-wide-cat-wide-gif-16729570673879006163

[rapid merlin]

that is a wild perspective!

[polar holly]

that's so cursed

[mellow gull]

like sinking into a black hole

[devout palm]

Singularity

[rapid merlin]

I'm just saying if ure going for a soc analyst role and u have a degree and another guy has no degree but has done lessons on THM/HTB and has CDSA or BTL1 he's taking the job not u, so pay attention to certs too don't give all the focus to the degree, degree is just to pass to the interview stage, after that u need experience in the position to answer the questions they ask u

[mellow gull]

Ultimately the hiring manager is gonna pick whoever they pick. Certs might be really great, but you might have a terrible personality or poor socialization. Some stuff helps, some more than others, but there's no one way ticket to success.

[rapid merlin]

usually if the resume looks okay they pass u for an interview with the soc manager and then u get asked questions about the role and the tools used, protocols, and theory

no degree will help u there but THM will

[mellow gull]

Usually, maybe. Not disagreeing with you, just saying the amount of categories that go into choosing the perfect candidate is an eldritch machination known onto the people performing the hiring.

I've personally seen extremely well qualified candidates get walked over for poor behavior over people that didn't know much but were approachable and teachable.

[polar holly]

Talking from experience in hiring, firing, promoting and demoting. There's a ton that contributes to if you will get the job or not. Most out of your own control, but the things that are, is mainly how well do you know things and can your knowledge translate over into practice. Companies would rather hire somebody that can do the job, than hire people who know the theory behind something but will need to be trained up, unless it's an entry-level position or if it's a teaching position.

[rapid merlin]

I watched a hiring manager take 50% of the stack of resume/CVs, throw them in the garbage, and say "I don't want to work with unlucky people" 😮

[rapid merlin]

insider threat avoidance

[mellow gull]

Brothers I've seen some wild stuff in hiring

[rapid merlin]

I hear ya

[mellow gull]

Luck or lack thereof isn't a protected class, nor is a typo on paragraph three line four (everything else was perfect)

[rapid merlin]

yet not all environments are a good fit, or healthy

[rapid merlin]

you had me at luck, after that i lost you, you started talking witchcraft

[polar holly]

Yeah, it's not. You get shitty environments and those 'Unlucky' ones are actually the lucky ones for missing that toxicity

[mellow gull]

To add onto this for anyone seeking work -in any subject, really- the interview process is just as much you interviewing your potential peers/superiors as much as it is them interviewing you.

[rapid merlin]

100%

[polar holly]

Agreed

Unless it's the exit interview

[graceful mauve]

Man probably thinks "gah damn I'm lucky" and just threw away 50% of his best candidates

[rapid merlin]

hell yeah I want my soc to be a battlefield with the manager screaming on top of his lungs every time a major attack happens

[rapid merlin]

burnout in a person who really should not have been in that role

preferably at 4 am in the morning

that's the fun

[devout palm]

What are the consequences of faking a CV

[mellow gull]

Sometimes locking in consists of taking out all of your repressed rage onto people desperately trying to prevent a database leak

[mellow gull]

If you don't get caught? None.

[finite granite]

Impostor syndrome

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/among-us-sus-suspicious-impostor-animation-gif-20446053

[rapid merlin]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/

[polar holly]

https://tenor.com/view/freedom-cant-take-my-freedom-braveheart-free-man-independent-gif-5373859

I need them to rally the troops and say: They may take our systems but they will never take our Freedom

[mellow gull]

Speaking of if anyone needs me to be a reference, we were best buds at your old job

[boreal scarab]

Do I want to go out and grab coffee... or make an espresso at home....

[devout palm]

Make an espresso

[polar holly]

Nice will take you up on that one day

[finite granite]

espresso for depresso

[polar holly]

Espresso yourself

[finite granite]

Can you help me fight HR?

[mellow gull]

Sure, clean or do I need to bring a bat?

[finite granite]

2 bats at least

[polar holly]

What type of fight are you having? Because I shot our HR once... Her photo is still on the wall of shame in the pub...

[rapid merlin]

can you invite someone to join you for coffee?

o/ people

[finite granite]

Full scale war, they might use sarcasm and office chairs to stop us

[rapid merlin]

studying time, only 2h late

[polar holly]

I'm ready, just hold my tequila

[brittle drum]

Seems like, HRs are not doing annual increment globally.

[finite granite]

logging off, gotta start my shift 💀

[polar holly]

Enjoy

[mellow gull]

Ciao, have a good one

[finite granite]

Thanks, Ill be back to do some rooms in around 8h lolz

[royal glacier]

who help me with a little problem with openvpn on kali linux... please i can't use him for do a box 😭

[rapid merlin]

closing discord since studying 👋

be back in around 1-2h

[crude stump]

Any cybersecurity Christmas gifts for someone who likes cybersecurity

[dark frost]

Hystoricaly there was 1 dude that faked his CV to be a military surgeon , he ended up learning well on the job and saved many lives

[mellow gull]

Also that one lawyer dude who had a flawless defense record for like a decade.

[brittle drum]

what is the problem ?

[mellow gull]

A brand new mini tower preset with oled, traffic monitor and kali linux pre installed (you didn't specify a price)

[brittle drum]

share complete details so one can help you. @royal glacier

[crude stump]

Damn

If only

[rapid merlin]

buying your friend a bunch of mystery hard drives from the thrift shop

[crude stump]

Wow I’m sure his conputer would love that

Computer

[rapid merlin]

digital forensics

[mellow gull]

Just put them on an isolated machine

Actually not the worst idea tbh

[royal glacier]

when I run the command with sudo openvpn with the download path, I can't access tryhackme's IP (10.10.10.10) the vpn

i can't send picture

Sorry to ask for help with something that must be so basic.

[mellow gull]

And if you run Kali or Tails from USB on you won't be putting actual hardware at risk either (at least not hardware you care about)

[brittle drum]

was connection initiated successfully in your terminal message? If you're running sudo openvpn ..., try rerunning it 2-3 times. If it still doesn't work, change the server or refresh the OpenVPN configuration file by downloading a new file from the server.

No problem we are here to help 🤝 @royal glacier

https://tryhackme.com/r/room/openvpn have a look on this room it will guide you properly.

[royal glacier]

thanks i go try this

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @brittle drum (current: #985 - 4)

[graceful mauve]

A keylogger running from a rootkit residing in memory on your main computer might be able to see that since the live boot from the USB is stored in RAM

[graceful mauve]

.

[mellow gull]

Yeah that's a risk, but you're not putting an actual device in danger aside from whatever you're sacrificing to run and boot the hard drives.

As opposed to network ssh or somesuch from a dedicated device that could be ruined.

A USB that can fit all of kali is like ten bucks, a server+tower+potential escape is... more

[graceful mauve]

Yeah there's a lot less of an attack scope that way for sure

If you don't configure your network right by segmenting or using proxies, vpns, updating OS's etc then that could pose an issue as well

I might be missing a few things

[mellow gull]

There's a ton that can go wrong. If it's something that's scripted to detect a network on boot then it can reach an outside CSS or host server that can do any number of atrocities

Isolation with an unfamiliar harddrive is always the best for analysis

[graceful mauve]

Couldn't this be countered by altering the boot process or maybe even something as simple as secure boot?

[royal glacier]

when i start this command ? "sudo openvpn /path-to-file/file-name.ovpn" . Must it end or run in a vacuum and can I work during this time?

[graceful mauve]

If we're talking about containing malware, we could de-attach it from the internet, although that's not great for dynamic analysis

[mellow gull]

Of course, that's one way. Typically during analysis you wouldn't be using an external computer that has access to the wider internet anyways, so that shouldn't be a concern. The vast majority of malware needs to be activated in some way, usually from an outside source, but ransomware could still be problematic if its activated by fileview or an unintentional run command.

[rapid merlin]

if you analyse malware with an internet connection, you shouldn't.

[opaque flax]

“Just don’t”

[rapid merlin]

it's generally a bad idea

[brittle drum]

yes , keep it open and running . open another terminal or split terminal for work.

[opaque flax]

I’d say it’s always a bad idea…unless it’s like completely isolated for anything else on its own connection and you want to activate it

[graceful mauve]

You could change the outbound rules of your firewall, router, etc to drop all outgoing packets though through known C2 ports to effectively trap them

[opaque flax]

So yeah generally a bad idea lol

[brittle drum]

Closing the terminal will end your connection to the box/challenge, so it's a good idea to ping the challenge box IP while the command is running in the terminal. I recommend learning Tmux.

@royal glacier

[graceful mauve]

And if they dynamically try to change their ports to try and bypass that, you can shut down your Internet and analyse it

[mellow gull]

If you're determined to test malware in its natural, intended state since most won't run when they don't detect a network output, you'd probably be much better off using other devices on a closed map to spoof webtraffic to see what it does.

[brittle drum]

@royal glacier let me know if you are still unable to ping challange machine.

[mellow gull]

Use something like wireshark to catch its output search

Then you might get the chance to do something neat

[royal glacier]

i think im lost ... when i try to connect to the box the web page loads ...

[sand trench]

YAY SHADOWS PLOOPY STUFFS IS HERE

[graceful mauve]

That's a good idea, there's stuff such as fakenet with is pretty neat. Just mimics a network

[crude stump]

What is a poppy

Ploopy

[sand trench]

open source hardware maker of headphones and mice and trackballs located in canada

[rapid merlin]

Gorgeous

[royal glacier]

the cmd where I launched the command is still open and working (always displays info)

[crude stump]

Interesting never heard of it

Weird name tho

Ploopy 😂

[sand trench]

found them when searching for mice with qmk support

and because shadow is lazy shadow ordered the fully assembled kits

[mellow gull]

Yup. Luckily if you have the malware package you can inspect it in any number of ways, but from there you can ping/nmap the ip that it was trying to reach, check its return signal, do any number of things...

[brittle drum]

No problem will try my best to help you, go to #room-help and share screenshot where you are unable to ping.

[sand trench]

and when shadow says open source hardware they mean it: https://github.com/ploopyco/mouse

they have full schematics and everything to 3d print and order the electronics

[graceful mauve]

Do all the things fr.. Now imagine a ML program that takes attack chains and makes more attack chains, then combines them into an exploit to analyse

[royal glacier]

i cant share screen shot its normal ??

[graceful mauve]

Analysing attack chains is the next level unless you can reverse engineer the malware well enough to understand what's its targetting

The chaining

[brittle drum]

you are allowed to send me friend rq and DM.

[sand trench]

yes

[royal glacier]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @brittle drum (current: #842 - 5)

[sharp citrus]

@royal glacier

Advent of Cyber 2024 Terms and Conditions

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/8537472-advent-of-cyber-2024-terms-and-conditions

Dec 12, 2024, 3:21 PM

[sand trench]

wait what

wrong link

[sharp citrus]

Discord: How do I verify my TryHackMe account?

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/6495858-discord-how-do-i-verify-my-tryhackme-account

Dec 12, 2024, 3:21 PM

[sand trench]

^ this one @royal glacier

[rapid merlin]

can anybody recommend any good powershell resources

[royal glacier]

thanks

[sand trench]

after that you can post images here

[mellow gull]

You should be able to file inspect and check its root commands under most circumstances unless it's been encrypted and only deencrypts when it receives a return signal - but once you capture it from the host ip on another device you can just fake it to trick the malware into activating on an inert drive.

A lot of malware is designed for Windows, so you'll usually see powershells that download distributions from the host ip's server or maybe scp gets depending on what they're attacking

[sand trench]

hmmm

[rapid merlin]

Anybody got an invite to JH's discord?

[graceful mauve]

Gotta think about that one NGL. So it's like a hard coded IP that you trick into believing is communicating with its hard coded C2 server but it's actually communicating with your spoofed version?

[mellow gull]

Exactly. You use the false network to capture the malware's initial ping to our villain's host IP, which you copy and actually send, then capture the response, feed it into the malware to activate it safely, and bob's your uncle.

[graceful mauve]

That's actually cool as

[near sapphire]

hey I have some questions for student discounts. My student email is not recognized so I have to apply for it manually. What are some things that could my application to fail?

[sick lance]

You'll need to contact support to manually verify it.

[sharp citrus]

TryHackMe's Email

TryHackMe's support email address.

​

[e-mail]

TryHackMe Socials · Dec 12, 2024, 3:39 PM

[graceful mauve]

Id assume different C2 architecture would require different strategies for actually adapting your detection mechanisms to what the malware is trying to do. But you could probably analyse the system calls and trace back from that too

Not sure how much deeper it gets though, I don't have experience like that

[sick lance]

Malware is also reserved for our advanced channels, if we can keep discussion to there please. @graceful mauve @mellow gull

[sharp citrus]

Discord: What are the advanced channels?

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/8671900-discord-what-are-the-advanced-channels

Dec 12, 2024, 3:39 PM

[mellow gull]

Whoops, will do.

Er, that was for scrubz

[graceful mauve]

Yeye

[sick lance]

Have you tried Google 😄

[graceful mauve]

I don't see no advanced channel

We still newbies out here

[mellow gull]

You need either lvl 13 on the website or an official OCSP/eCCPT cert

[sick lance]

Check the doc I pinned 😄

[mellow gull]

I only had a little more to say anyways so if it isn't a problem would a DM be fine?

[graceful mauve]

Yeah sure

[near sapphire]

if I submitted the necessary documents, will I be eligible for the discount or is there any other criteria I need to fulfill

[sick lance]

If you have proof you're a full time student, you'll meet the criteria

[near sapphire]

and what should I do if my enrollemnt documents are not in english

[sick lance]

It's ok, I'm sure they will use a translation tool.

[rapid merlin]

Am I being dumb. In this advertisement for moss it says 5kg has a volume of about 25-40 litres

Like wahhht

[near sapphire]

alright thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3096)

[rapid merlin]

Never mind I just found out you can upload images to ChatGPT

And ChatGPT explained it perfectly

[ruby vale]

Hi!

[brittle drum]

Hlw

[pulsar spoke]

Hey, anyone got any advice on writing a write-up for a THM room?

[cloud quiver]

Hi 🙂

[rose tusk]

the point of moss is to stack up on water 😄

[umbral bay]

🎄 🥳 Advent of Cyber 2024 DAY 12 Let's Go! 🥳 🎄

[brittle drum]

[near sapphire]

how long does the process usually take

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-jolly-christmas-gif-17210184799137802426

[sick lance]

adivce rSupport are really busy due to AoC.

[royal glacier]

nice to block me when you offered to help me in mp

[rapid merlin]

yoo beerise

[boreal scarab]

Ugh, I want to work on my server, but at the same time, I don't want to setup the whole, monitor, keyboard, mouse crap

[brave scroll]

Hi

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/orange-cat-weird-cat-cat-funny-cat-weirdo-gif-11097306164562473166

Not 1 TB for SSD.... 960GB

[rapid merlin]

It’s also airy so the roots can grip

[rapid merlin]

Don't most SSD's lose some storage when connected?

do I have bad memory or is there a new "certificates" tab in thm profiles? 👀

[boreal scarab]

So do HDD's... but they're listed as 1 TB, not 960GB'

[rapid merlin]

well it doesn't appear on public profiles I'm guessing it's new

[rapid merlin]

True, idfk then 💀

[finite tulip]

Storage devices differ in some storage when connected because of formatting and windows displaying the wrong unit for storage

[naive violet]

Not lose, no.
It's just different people measuring differently.

[naive violet]

960 means its a 1024 drive with space allocated for wear leveling etc

[finite tulip]

Some companies like measuring before format and after format etc and then there's Microsoft, showing the wrong unit lol

[naive violet]

Nah it's the storage companies using an advantageous unit

[granite narwhal]

Whatsup everyone?

[naive violet]

It's usually printed on the media too, they define 1mb or 1gbit as some power of 10

[granite narwhal]

How it going

[finite tulip]

Windows USES GiB as a unit but displays "GB" on the label in file explorer (and everywhere else)

[granite narwhal]

GIB is GB

[finite tulip]

https://www.google.com/search?q=GiB+to+GB

[rose tusk]

gib is this

[granite narwhal]

Its is just less of gb

[finite tulip]

a GiB is 1.07374182 GB
Windows would say a drive is 1.07374182 GB when the drive is 1GB (Not accounting for formating and other stuff)

[haughty python]

hello guys, where can i find room for advent questions? 🙂 Have a problem again with portswigger

[finite tulip]

#1305926862114914325 is the preferred channel for AoC

[sick lance]

#1305926862114914325

However #room-help could also apply.

[haughty python]

thank You guys ❤️

[versed stump]

This one goes out to YOU: ❤️

YOU as in: you all

Have a great day fellow phreaks and geeks

[dark frost]

Good night ❤️

[grizzled wing]

i won the race condition 🎉

[cloud quiver]

Congrats 🙂

[grizzled wing]

спасибо товарищ | thank you comrade

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @cloud quiver (current: #7 - 1206)

[sick lance]

English only please.

[rapid merlin]

gg on 1.2k rep kgb

[cloud quiver]

Well , she provided translation 🙂

[grizzled wing]

yea, i thought having both would work, but ok

[sick lance]

No, because mods might not speak that language, and then they have to translate it to ensure it matches.

So it's easier if mods don't need to translate any text that is not English/encrypted/encoded

[chilly veldt]

heyyo

[rapid merlin]

o/ Bella

[tawdry shore]

I'm going crazy

Please take care of my sanity

;p

[shut hawk]

no hints!

[rapid merlin]

Why no roles?

[shut hawk]

[sick lance]

Left the server and came back

[rapid merlin]

oh

[tawdry shore]

Ok, sorry for asking

[chilly veldt]

yee, slowly coming back again

[shut hawk]

welcome back, hope your feeling better

[chilly veldt]

I have limited myself to only a couple of hours on discord a day

[civic pulsar]

hi

[chilly veldt]

still not working, but slowly going back to that again

[grizzled wing]

the black void is significant?

[rapid merlin]

the void isn't always a bad thing

[grizzled wing]

indeed

[boreal scarab]

@strong flicker LEMON

Welp, good news... network cabaling laid out, bad news, still haven't decided on what drives to put in the server. I want speed, and reliability, cause logs go brrrt. But at the same time, don't really wanna "break the bank"

@chilly veldt Bella is back!

[chilly veldt]

for a couple of hours a day

[boreal scarab]

Awwww

[chilly veldt]

still trying to destress

but it got lonely not being able to talk to anyone

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/hug-gif-15819456627234943636

Herbal tea helps, and if ya need someone to talk to, always here.

[rapid merlin]

that's valid, I hope you feel better again soon

[wooden totem]

https://tenor.com/view/hugs-rickroll-gif-24588121

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/hug-gif-15819456627234943636

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/damin-toell-get-out-gif-2960077830144535500

[chilly veldt]

but yeah, my body went into shock tuesday due to the amount of stress I have, which has left me to now destress, think everything through and slowly get back to work

[wooden totem]

This life thing seems pretty stressful, might leave a negative review

[boreal scarab]

Screaming helps... atleast for me.

[wooden totem]

I just don't take it seriously, super cope 😎

[rapid merlin]

not helpful lmao

[tardy finch]

If using Google is googling does that mean using edge is called edging ? 🤔

[daring jackal]

dude🤣

[wooden totem]

Well I do "do" stuff seriously, but I don't take it seriously

I get some points there

[rapid merlin]

Hope you can destress and feel better soon, hopefully your workplace realises how badly they were overworking you and eases up

[snow path]

Hi

[heavy idol]

asking the real questions here

[tardy finch]

Are you googling? Nah dude I'm edging

@heavy idol

[little siren]

Anyone want to add me as a friend???

Im rank 32k, trying to get some people to compare with

[cloud quiver]

Add me if you want 🙂

[little siren]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-jumping-cat-excited-excited-dance-gif-19354605

[glass nest]

Don't be comparing yourself to others

[little siren]

User?

[little siren]

Its for fun

[cloud quiver]

KGBTHM 🙂

[little siren]

Makes it more engaging

[glass nest]

fair, if it works for you, I'm not one to go against that

[little siren]

Sent ("Olbap")

[flat thunder]

Hi all.Going try my luck here.. Where can i get training videos for Mikrotik? Videos that i can save on my pc

[little siren]

What rank are u unc?

[glass nest]

10k looks like

[little siren]

Cool

[bronze osprey]

But 1 in our heart

[glass nest]

I was in the top few hundred back in the day 😄

but alas, time takes it's toll.

[loud marlin]

u old dwarf 🙂

[wooden totem]

Youtube? idk

[cloud quiver]

Yay , we're friends now 😄

[little siren]

15?

[royal lantern]

why my attackbox is always lagging

[cloud quiver]

May be congestion on THM side 😦

[polar holly]

Hope not. Because it's bad today. Like even my internet felt it.

[little siren]

If u have any other laptop laying around it's the best time to try and install kali

Or on a usb

[royal lantern]

okok thx

or i just install kali on my main laptop

[little siren]

It isnt ideal

[royal lantern]

why

[glass nest]

damn. Guy just has laptops lying around

[little siren]

Kali is meant to be used as a tool, mainly on vms

[royal lantern]

ah

[little siren]

But if u don't have enough ram then install it

[glass nest]

Doesnt need to be Kali.

Just Kali comes with the tools. they can all be installed though

[little siren]

Thats true

[loud marlin]

@glass nest had to repaint laptop lid and did it again

[sand trench]

shadow might have found the craziest bug they have ever spotted

[glass nest]

The owl looks ay more detailed

[wintry spruce]

where did you get your stickers from? they are awesome

[loud marlin]

yea. fit perfect colors. same as tentacles. will take zoom pics

[loud marlin]

not stickers. laser engraving

[wintry spruce]

I had no idea you could do that! thats awesome. I wish my laptop made in plastic

[loud marlin]

and in app they add laser delay so it give more detailed results

[loud marlin]

this is not plastic. is metal surface. and it can be done on plastic also. kinda

[sand trench]

for some reason ghostty ignores shadows aliases

[loud marlin]

@lament tendon u approve owl ?

[glass nest]

Bit's gonna be all like 'Dude, Stop doxxing me!' 😄

[loud marlin]

can you make file with aliases and include it in config?

[sand trench]

yes

it is weird as meeps

if running which alias name it outputs the alias

but when running alias it outputs none aliased version

[granite narwhal]

I'm learning passive recon but the requeriments to I learned networking but it just remain me linux fundementals

I learn little but I feel boring I need it like playing

[boreal scarab]

Why do chicken coops only have 2 doors?
||Because if they had four, they'd be called a Chicken Sedan||

[granite narwhal]

I finished before I will repeat it again

[glass nest]

Fundemental can get boring. But once you got them sorted, the rest of the journey is more fun, because you'll acheive more

[granite narwhal]

What u mean sorted

[glass nest]

Once you understand them.

[granite narwhal]

U mean the commands yes I tried it I write my own note

[boreal scarab]

Hrm, buy drives now, or buy drives later..... do want to get this server up and running

[granite narwhal]

I liked it

🥺💕.

Because I finish the basics

[glass nest]

no no, I mean the fundamentals. also known as the basics. Its the same as with any task in the world. Once you have the basics learned, Then everything that you learn from then on becomes easier to understand

[loud marlin]

i have great dark joke but nsfw lol

[granite narwhal]

I will repeat it again but in my own notes go be game

It will be game

[boreal scarab]

DM

[glass nest]

knowing commands, is part of that. but so is understanding how networks work. What the computer is doing when you load a webpage.. all that stuff

[boreal scarab]

"why did non-beehive child cross the road? cos didt put seat belt"

@loud marlin sending me cryptic as fuck messages lol

[loud marlin]

check again

listen here you shit. i can write on dutch if that helps

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-unga-bunga-loading-uga-gif-23786525

[loud marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/slap-gif-25249881

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/wow-gif-22908691

Welp, picked out my drives

[wooden totem]

What do you call a lazy kangaroo

[glass nest]

Betta.system?

[wooden totem]

I'll have you know that I'm not as lazy anymore

[granite narwhal]

I now how to works networking in osi model

[glass nest]

Great

[granite narwhal]

But The requeriments for recon passive I finished networking but need linux to finish it

So I will learn command and I want to be transpent
The ternimal and wallpaper

To make more soft🥺💕

[glass nest]

So use Linux

[granite narwhal]

Ubuntu 💕

[glass nest]

Good. Have fun completing it 🙂

[boreal scarab]

Not AS lazy.
So still lazy.

[daring jackal]

speaking of ubuntu ive been thinking about replacing windows 11 with it

[glass nest]

Why not, faulty. sounds good. once it does what you need it to.

you could go the 'safe' route, and dual boot with ubuntu. Means you can head back to windows if you need to 😄

[daring jackal]

youre right, im gonna weigh my options

[glass nest]

ubuntu is a good option aswell. Theres a big community around it, so answers to different challenges are found easily

[sand trench]

welp then

@loud marlin

not the first with this issue apparently

[loud marlin]

every day smth new 🙂

[wooden totem]

Hello, I am a human scientist and I can confirm that being to a reasonable extent lazy is biologically natural for majority of mammals. Through evolution only the most energy efficient ones survived

[whole gazelle]

heloooo!!

[daring jackal]

first time i found out about ubuntu was when my boss made me install it instead of windows with a bootable usb and he wanted me to experiment with it, pretty cool OS

[glass nest]

They get even cooler 🙂 Ubuntu is the 'easy' version of Linux.on the other end of the scale you have Arch, which is a pain in the next, but waaay more customisable. @loud marlin loves showing off his desktops 😄

[timber galleon]

thoughts on australia's social media ban?

[daring jackal]

tried asking for the usb to install it on my laptop but he said he erased the usb😭

[glass nest]

Eh, USBs are cheap and easy to get :p

[glossy stratus]

Here is a tool for privilege escalation od Debian based distros. I hope you will find it useful in you learning paths and more. Tested on attackbox. Enjoy! https://github.com/ValentaA/Automated-suid-privilege-escalation-tool

[daring jackal]

yeah i have one it just has my certifications on it, probably gonna use it eventually

[glass nest]

either way, super easy to get a new one 😄

[raw flame]

Hi everyone!

[glass nest]

sup Jin

[daring jackal]

hey jin

i might be able to get the penTest+ cert depending how things go, really hoping i can get it

[glass nest]

As in...Get your boss to pay for it? I've no doubt you have the skills for it

[raw flame]

sup guys how are you all doing?

[glass nest]

Eatin' gingerbread. so yeah... Pretty good 😄

[raw flame]

Nice

I am new in the field of Ethical hacking so looking for some guidance

[glass nest]

Cos it's near christmas, Lidl has all the christmassy german snacks.. like Lebkuchen

[rapid merlin]

eatin dinner, also good

[raw flame]

Good good

[rapid merlin]

wbu

[glass nest]

Thats good Jin. have a look at #start-here . Tryhackme can take you from 0 to tacking tricky CTFs 🙂

[raw flame]

All good, it's 1 AM here just laying down

[daring jackal]

well im still learning so im not gonna take the exam until i know for sure what im doing, also not my boss, stuff happened a while back and i basically got money for education but we havent been using it so my mom is seeing if we can still use it

[grizzled wing]

has anyone used Redox OS ? looking at it, seems like it would be cool to try

[loud marlin]

@glass nest i think im done... still have space...

[daring jackal]

that looks sick

[raw flame]

Thanks let me look into it

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @glass nest (current: #17 - 504)

[glass nest]

ralex, you can fit an 8-bit 1-up mushroom in there. Easily.

[sand trench]

ploopy headphones sound nice

[glass nest]

Faulty - Sounds good. Regardless of how that pans out, may aswell keep learning 😄

[loud marlin]

find one pls 🙂

[daring jackal]

Yeah man im trying to get into pen test cause it seems fun (and pays decent from what i read)

[glass nest]

There ya go

[loud marlin]

cant do that. normal img for engraving

[jovial edge]

Yes, my old Discord account got banned and I wanna link this account to my try hack me account.

[little siren]

Everyone wants to be a pentester

Start by installing ubuntu already

[jovial edge]

If I had roles I’ll show you my tat

[daring jackal]

im fixing to, i left my usb stick at home so I'll have to grab that

[loud marlin]

this ok ?

[desert kelp]

Hello

[daring jackal]

whats up toxy

[glass nest]

Looks good. Thats the one I have on my other arm 😄

[rapid merlin]

Whats the best AI image generator rn?

[glass nest]

Depends. Are you AI?

[rapid merlin]

I need to weave some pots

[little siren]

Leonardo ai its great

And free

[loud marlin]

doing test run...

[rapid merlin]

Free you say

[glass nest]

I was joking, but hey. I'm happy to be indelibly engraved onto your hacktop 😄

[desert kelp]

im about to get the 0x8 hacker title!!

[little siren]

But limited to some uses each day (create throaway accs)

[desert kelp]

What abt you

[glass nest]

I'm excited for your acheivement, Toxy!

[modest burrow]

Pure commitment

[daring jackal]

nice! im doing good, just waiting until payday to get tryhackme's premium because im broke as a joke

[glass nest]

Nice!

[loud marlin]

this better then 🙂

[glass nest]

Ah. This is from that cartoon you told me about?

[rapid merlin]

Ohh okay

Is it a website ? Or one of those discord ones ?

[chilly veldt]

CARTOOOON????

YOU CALL DEATH NOTE A CARTOOOOOOON?

[loud marlin]

yea... google it lol

[rapid merlin]

My first ever cosplay was MISA

Haha

[glass nest]

Bella - Yup. Just to get that reaction 😄

[loud marlin]

ill engrave tommorow... going in night shift soon

[little siren]

Site

[rapid merlin]

Ohh okay thanks

[little siren]

Ill dm u some pics I made

[half badge]

Write my name

[glass nest]

I'm looking forward to your circuit board project, Stealth

[loud marlin]

nah... for "special" ones only hehe

[glass nest]

d'aww

[desert kelp]

Thank you bro

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @glass nest (current: #17 - 505)

[glass nest]

How much further you got to go, Toxy?

[rapid merlin]

All the projects, look at these pots

[desert kelp]

Nice maybe Ill get it too

[glass nest]

You made them, Stealth?

[rapid merlin]

Currently I’m using my money to just sort my flat out because I moved in three months ago or something

[rapid merlin]

They’re AI generated, I’m gonna make some :3

anybody here a math nerd

[desert kelp]

About 40 points

[rapid merlin]

However the beads will be more dainty and fairy like

[glass nest]

oh nice, Stealth. I can't wait to see them

[rapid merlin]

I’m getting a new toilet seat tomorrow 😄

Esqy, do you know any good apps for drawing & writing things down interactively

Actually excited lmao

excali something is one I can't quite remember it

[glass nest]

no idea - I'm not really an artist or anything

[rapid merlin]

na I just want to be able to write equations and other things down

or rather draw

[glass nest]

Stealth.. Yeah, I don't need to see that. BUT I do wanna see anything you make and build 🙂

Const - Mathlab popped up in my brain. Dunno what it does, but I've seen it mentioned

[sick lance]

You got banned?

[primal kestrel]

has anyone else gotten phishing texts like these in the past year or two? i’m wondering which threat group or tooling is responsible for them

[glass nest]

Nothing like that.

[sick lance]

Analysis would be for our advanced channels

[rapid merlin]

But it’s black and made of wood 😂

[grim sparrow]

:hammer: iamcaesium#0 has been banned.

[silver sky]

Oh dear

[rapid merlin]

But yeah ofc I’ll send you the stuff I make

Oh wait no

[glass nest]

Ok. And keep the toilet stuff in the bathroom 🙂

[rapid merlin]

I’m so excited that a room is going to be finished here

Seriously, been waiting long enough

[silver sky]

I've got everything I need to paint now!

[glass nest]

Paint-filled water balloons?

[crude stump]

@boreal scarab what is the best beginner lock picking set if you don’t mind me asking

[rapid merlin]

Oh nice, send a pic when you’ve done it

[split ore]

yeah, it's pretty cartoonish :D

[glass nest]

AceS - 😦

[crude stump]

?

[rapid merlin]

I want a lock picking set too

[glass nest]

I do loads of lockpicking for fun

[rapid merlin]

But I’ve not got around to that yet

[crude stump]

Oh

Never knew

What’s your opinion esqy

[rapid merlin]

I will get one eventually

[glass nest]

Honestly, any. Once it has a tension wrench, a rake or two and a couple of hooks.

Worst case, one snaps then you buy a good version of that one.

Sparrows is one of the more well known brands

[rapid merlin]

Amazon got one

[glass nest]

You also have Lokko, Southord and a few others.

[crude stump]

Got it, thanks esqy

[glass nest]

something like this is perfect for beginners

The practise locks are good for learning, but will get old quickly 😄

[silver sky]

I will do. Got quite a bit to do to be fair

[crude stump]

I bet

[silver sky]

Mostly prep because the wall is kind of fucked

[crude stump]

I feel like it’s kinda cheating since it’s see through

[glass nest]

I actually do wanna pick up a mortise lock pick, so this was a good excuse to be on that site. Thanks Aces 😄

Yeah. But its a good way to learn. Can cover it in tape to try it without looking.

Then buy cheap padlocks from.. well anywhere. jumble sales, dollar stores..

[rapid merlin]

Nice, I’ll show you my bathroom when I’m done

[rapid merlin]

You gotta learn where the pins are

So I guess it’s easier to learn like this

[crude stump]

True but it’s mainly feeling no?

[glass nest]

Yep. The see through one lets you see whats happening and why it feels that way, y'know?

[crude stump]

Ah yes

[rapid merlin]

Damn the illustration on that AI is pretty

[rapid merlin]

What AI is this

[rapid merlin]

Leonardo

[pine stratus]

idk why but i feel like ai is too old thing but it revealed to the public just the last years x//

[maiden shell]

guys how i can know if i pay on AWS on THM

[crude stump]

You should have access to the AWS rooms

[maiden shell]

oh ok i click enroll but not pay

its ok thanks you

i just started on THM

[rapid merlin]

Im hungry

😒

[flint sluice]

Hi hungry

[silver sky]

VARG

[flint sluice]

Identify yourself

You better be Hex

Or a close proxy

[silver sky]

It's ya boy hexxxy but shhh don't reveal that I'm Santa 👀

[flint sluice]

I'm not taking down the gun btw

You understand

But gimme a hug you cheeky bastard ♥️

[lament tendon]

Oh yea, that looks sick af!

[silver sky]

I'm sorry for your ribcage

[flint sluice]

I got two racks, I'll be okay

[silver sky]

How's things down under dude?

[warm bloom]

What will you like to eat

[boreal scarab]

Tomorrow we install.... PROXMOX!

[dense grove]

beautiful

[rapid merlin]

I eat a lot of Korean food

[dark frost]

dual ssd nice

[boreal scarab]

32GB with 2 sticks, more than enough for my need

[dense grove]

niceee

[boreal scarab]

Going to be in a RaidZ1, so just 1 TB usage. Could go for 4 SSD's, but meh, for my use case, not needed.

[sand trench]

beerrise when are you getting 0xD

??????????????????????????????

vain has already done it so why not you too

[boreal scarab]

The m.2 is the boot drive for ProxMox, SSD's, or the M.2 will be hosting the VM's, haven't decided yet. But logs 100% going on SSD's

[boreal scarab]

When I get off my lazy ass and log into THM lol

[dark frost]

i will the OxD at the end of december 👀

[dense grove]

Recently had the opportunity to test a 1TB ram server. It was awesome, the performance was beautiful

[boreal scarab]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT time?

Wonder what it's at now...

Less today, nice

[warm bloom]

I only have pizza for you at the moment

Perhaps when I cook another

[dark frost]

https://tenor.com/view/super-recipes-foodie-delicious-homemade-foodiegram-gif-22523329

i have this

[boreal scarab]

Server almost gave me a heart attack.... thought one of my main drives was about to error the fuck out.... nope, was one of my SSD's doing metadata VDEV crap

[dense grove]

What time?

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/brrrrt-bret-a10-warthog-gif-18817481

[dense grove]

Also btw in Serbia hacktivists hacked a government website made for targeting students and buying their votes.

The corruption here is next level

[dense grove]

They transferred a domain and changed the site

[boreal scarab]

All for hacktivism.... if it doesn't effect me

[dense grove]

Nah people here are so fed up with this corruption

[dark frost]

always has been

[dense grove]

The ones who are voting for SNS (a political party) are old people and they just don't know or aren't educated enough to see things for what they are

[dark frost]

ai generated

[sand trench]

sooo you are saying you are wasting the opertunity for prices by not doing advent of cyber???

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/star-lord-starlord-guardians-of-the-galaxy-infinity-war-bingo-gif-15915563798819699194

[dense grove]

sadly yeah

btw sora came out

[rapid merlin]

What type of pizza ?

[warm bloom]

Normal yummy pizza

You will like it

[rapid merlin]

I only like meat feast pizza

All the meat

[dark frost]

have you tasted Nutella Pizza ?

[boreal scarab]

GUMMY PIZZA

[dark frost]

we had once at army , they made pizza one day , and the rest of bread came for breakfast ^^ best bread for nutella ever

[boreal scarab]

US? Or ally to US?

[dark frost]

Neutral 🙂

🇨🇭

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/salute-honor-funeral-fallen-soldier-gif-27671644

[sand trench]

come on beerrise stop slacking of and go do advent of cyber

just so you can win the defcon ticket with acomidations and give it to shadow :P

[boreal scarab]

But but but but but... that means I have to turn on VMWare, and then login, then connect, then not be lazy and read shit

[dark frost]

no shit is written here 😠

[boreal scarab]

[boreal scarab]

But reaaaaaaaading!

[sand trench]

you can also just watch the videos to get the answers :P

[boreal scarab]

[loud marlin]

so python package become crypto miner...
https://blog.yossarian.net/2024/12/06/zizmor-ultralytics-injection

[sand trench]

[wild rose]

I'm slacking too for AoC. Been busy with an IAM project.

[sand trench]

shadow is trying to figure out why they smelt burnt plastic about 30 mins ago that then stopped after unplugging a thingy

[loud marlin]

that kinda sounds related ...

[boreal scarab]

1,369 packages to update

Nice

[sand trench]

yes...

NICE

[finite tulip]

I'm going to take a wild guess that it isn't a 3D printer or anything that shouldn't smell like burnt plastic

[loud marlin]

3d print plastic do not smell burned tbh

it is melting, not burning...

[finite tulip]

If you used a low temp filament and it got stuck on the hotend and you heat it to higher temperatures it could smell weird

[finite tulip]

Too long, I need it in 3 minute long videos in a vertical aspect ratio with Minecraft parkour and subway surfers on the bottom and top

[loud marlin]

in that case yes. by default not have smell. aside of ones that are dangerous for health like ABS

[finite tulip]

Yeah, I only print in PLA, so I don't have toxic smells in my bedroom (also because I use an ender 3 that basically can't handle anything else)

[loud marlin]

and glow in dark can have hard smell due to have fluorescence DNA... long story shirt... that DNA thing smells like hell or two

[rapid merlin]

Yeah it was banging

[finite tulip]

I've heard glow in the dark filament can have other issues when 3d printing too so I stay out of it

[rapid merlin]

I’m actually not keen on sweets like that tbh

[dark frost]

oh you have blue hair haven't seen it before

[rapid merlin]

Oh yeah blue and pink

I also put effort into makeup today too

I took that picture today

[loud marlin]

they are quite hard for brass or "softer" material nozzle's. so harden steal is needed for long time use if so

[dark frost]

you pretty 🙂

[rapid merlin]

Makeup magic haha thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @dark frost (current: #449 - 12)

[native wadi]

Hey 👋 Just want to pop in and say I really appreciate AoC and the tryhackme platform. Really awesome work! Well done! Have helped me a lot in leveling my knowledge in certain areas 🙌

[half badge]

How are my fellow hackers doinggggg

[finite tulip]

Yeah, ender 3 nozzle is brass so I'll keep staying out of it for that reason too
(I don't dare do any modification to it, it works and I don't want to burn another 3d printer motherboard 🙃 )

[loud marlin]

tbh... you look like bisexual squirrel =)... ||no, this is not insult||

[rapid merlin]

So close, I’m a bisexual racoon

[loud marlin]

i have k1c and CR10-smart-pro. you can easy mod your one. @boreal scarab have also ender or some like that

[loud marlin]

i was close then

[dark frost]

slowly a depression grain germing ...

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/waschbär-raccoon-durstig-thirsty-drinking-gif-16027972

[half badge]

jokes on you, computers the only shit that make me forget mine

[loud marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-broken-cat-cat-drinking-cat-licking-cat-air-gif-20661740

[rapid merlin]

I felt a little anxious so I got in bed

[dark frost]

same that why i am here , but when i return to reality , it hits hard

[sand trench]

now shadow wonders if a tungsten 3d printer tip would work

[rapid merlin]

Me and this cat sharing a brain cell rn

[maiden shell]

how to turn dark mode on thm website

[half badge]

Haha...I try to incorporate cyber in a way that it is my reality. So no matter whatever bad shit happens I'll think of a new CTF I managed or something to give me joy instead lmao. But currently I'm very busy so back to depression lmfao

[sand trench]

currently there is no official darkmode so most people just use the browser extension called dark reader

[finite tulip]

It cost some money but it does exist

[half badge]

That's the million dollar question

[boreal scarab]

Ender 3 V2, may it RIP.... now I have an Ender 3 V3 Plus

[sand trench]

neat as tungsten has some interesting thermal properties

[loud marlin]

there is ruby tip ones

[sand trench]

which shadow just answered :P

[finite tulip]

I wish I had one with a BLTouch (or CRTouch or whatever)

[half badge]

I know! Also, greetings shadowwww how is beautiful and talented shadow doing, I wonder??

[boreal scarab]

My V2 had a BLTouch, Olson Ruby Nozzle, All metal hot end, PEI sheet, Stronger springs

Also had OctoPi

Now my V3 plus autolevels, already has a PEI sheet, can already print abbrasive material OOB, and has web cam I can plug in and access it's web interface

[half badge]

tysm for the extension. Works like a charm, i'll cry

[boreal scarab]

Yay Fish!

[finite tulip]

I bought a BLTouch but the instructions were wrong, the Ender 3 models have slight changes (even the ones named the same name) so I shorted the motherboard and BLTouch :(

[rose tusk]

damn SORA does really decent anime images lol

[finite tulip]

That I got running though, flawless installation unlike the BLTouch

[finite tulip]

You mean videos?

[sand trench]

well banging head against concrete wall to get past side quest 3

[rose tusk]

i've just tried with images so far

like LOOK AT THIS CUTIE:

[boreal scarab]

Getting all my tools sorted on my new VM.... and this face is just stairing into my soul....

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/steal-this-is-mine-run-gif-15431338

[finite tulip]

Sora doesn't do images? DALL-E is the image generator

[rose tusk]

could be a different one, says sora on the box lol:

[dark frost]

stuck at the keycard have no clue where to start ... is the race stuff the solution ... ?

[sand trench]

well for the side quest there is a strict no hints policy

but can help with regular advent of cyber

[finite tulip]

By app.xiaoniuniao.top

[dark frost]

i know

[rose tusk]

yeah, chinese can take my info for all i care about

[umbral bay]

Looks like typical NY style pizza.™️

[rose tusk]

LOOK AT THE ANIME CHIBBY SPOODER

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/looney-gif-8561417070170405595

https://tenor.com/view/kitten-cute-fight-fluffy-gif-24634444

[quiet oriole]

Hey hackers
I have a problem with my connection 😕
I can connect with my vpn ,but when I do ping on my machine it's not working

[finite tulip]

Sora is the AI video one
https://openai.com/index/sora/
Dall-e is the image one
https://openai.com/index/dall-e-3/
-# pointless "argument" we are having lol

[clever meadow]

Testing my judgment skills. Is he dumb or an over-smart idiot.

[wooden totem]

screenshot

[quiet oriole]

I tried to use Outline but not working

[boreal scarab]

Are you in Mexico? What's with the unnecessary orange overlay? lol

[wooden totem]

I think he has night filter on monitor

[rapid merlin]

i love how you started calling the AI 'bro' once you started getting frustrated

[wooden totem]

I love seeing how people don't know how to use chatgpt lol

[clever meadow]

Correct

[finite tulip]

night filter = Mexian VPN?

[clever meadow]

Every single day.

[rapid merlin]

I was watching jumping spider videos today

[rose tusk]

tell me it's not cute

owo

[rapid merlin]

I might buy one

🙂‍↔️

[rose tusk]

a jumping spooder?

[rapid merlin]

Yeah

I like the tiny one underneath it in the image

With the little glowing eyes

[rose tusk]

yeah it's cute, but i wanted it to be more nightmare fuel with a cute spooder

[chilly veldt]

sooo tireeed

[rose tusk]

you should try a danger noodle or a nope rope

[chilly veldt]

my neck is hurting

[loud marlin]

bad sleep ?

[chilly veldt]

idk

[sand trench]

you got a tumor the size of your heart in your neck

[half badge]

NO DON'TTTT. u got this ma'am

[sand trench]

that was a metaphor but fair

[half badge]

Oh! Sorry I have a dark past with such events :). I BELIEVE IN U

[upper knoll]

Well that was a great AOC day

[loud marlin]

well... you getting old 🙂

[sand trench]

yeah there are things shadow might do but hurting themselves much is not one of them

[half badge]

Working on advent of cyber too rn! Finally found some time

[half badge]

I'm very proud of Shadow

[upper knoll]

I’ve really been enjoying AOC

I went to uni with a staff member love the dude he knows who he is. And he insisted I did it cause it would be good for me and lots of fun

We are all always proud of shadow!

[sand trench]

compiling compiling compiling

just for new mouse

[rapid merlin]

I’ve had snakes before in the past

[wooden totem]

Just found this "Dystopian ads in San Francisco about AI employees"

chat is this real

[finite tulip]

Seems like it

[boreal scarab]

They forget hacktivists?

[wooden totem]

I think it's just to promote fear of AI, no actual product

[narrow heart]

Fear of the plagarism machine?

[boreal scarab]

JFC...

Get an ad on youtube for a bullshit VPN, was going to see their privacy policy (if they had one) couldn't access the site through Browserling, Urlscan.io, or my browser...

So, did a whois on the site..... these idiots have all their info on it. Is it real? dunno, but omfg

[wooden totem]

VPN market is oversaturated already

[boreal scarab]

Hosted through AWS too, and NameCheap Registrar

Throw their address in, first result... "Malware Analysis Report" ... beautiful

[glass nest]

your OSINT skillz are a blessing and a curse

[boreal scarab]

Now looking up property records... if this country has them

[finite tulip]

I'm honestly surprised about the whois thing, NameCheap should have whois protections, did they disable them on accident?

[half badge]

Fweah

[boreal scarab]

@glass nest You don't happen to speak a certain Nordic language.... do you?

[glass nest]

Afraid not. You got Bella and i think Heapoverflow is learning one of them

[finite tulip]

I know swedish

[boreal scarab]

Don't think Bella speaks this particular one

[finite tulip]

Finish?

[boreal scarab]

Icelandic

[finite tulip]

Oh

That's an unusual one

[glass nest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88UJyCA__M&ab_channel=InspiredbyIceland

[boreal scarab]

Yah... Property records site is, of course, all in icelandic

[boreal scarab]

ihy lol

[glass nest]

Haha

[agile ore]

hey guys when the advent ends will we still be able to try them?

[finite tulip]

Before 0:40 I was just thinking, Icelandic is that easy? And then the real Icelandic hit

[agile ore]

Advent of Cyber 2024

[finite tulip]

Yes, you can still do last years

[glass nest]

It's a very catchy song 🙂

And kinda makes me wanna visit there. so I guess it works :p

[agile ore]

great, thanks :D

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @finite tulip (current: #241 - 27)

[boreal scarab]

So far, they have 3 sites. No data on whois for 2 of them, but all point back to Iceland

[half badge]

Are the side tasks impossible for beginners?

[boreal scarab]

Dunno, currently doing my own OSINT shtuff

[half badge]

Ohh okay. Good job

[sand trench]

YAY shadow ported their ploopy mouse from regular qmk to vial

[fleet turtle]

Omori pfp?

[rapid merlin]

evening

[finite tulip]

Good midnight to you

[grim imp]

Governance & Regulation has to be the most boring room on thm

[rapid merlin]

GRC is somewhat boring

[grim imp]

i couldnt

after the 6th

i stopped reading

[rapid merlin]

I've never honestly done GRC, no plans for it

[grim imp]

im studying for my pentest cert thats why

[rapid merlin]

what does pentesting have to do with GRC

[grim imp]

lol

maybe you should read

I literally can't explain it

without writing a paragraph

Governance is for like HIPPA or some stuff Regulation is what HIPPA protects ig and the c word is

compliance

how the company complies with the stuff

yeah i learned that

[boreal scarab]

Ran the APK of the app through virus total.... Now, I'm no expert on reverse engeneering, that goes to Scrubz....... but when I see execution parents of files in the APK going to malware..... That kind of raises a red flag to me

[rapid merlin]

idk I'm tired and have been demotivated asf lately icl

[grim imp]

Call me top dog

[rapid merlin]

but I've always been demotivated and never wanting to do anything but sit in darkness soo

[grim imp]

idk

[boreal scarab]

Don't think I should be seeing THIS much red... jfc

[rapid merlin]

💀

[boreal scarab]

Oh.... right... adv channel

Um, that's the only pic you're getting from me

[finite tulip]

Didn't know VirusTotal could sandbox APKs, that's neat

[wooden totem]

(red means Christmas presents)

[boreal scarab]

With 29/63 hits

Saw a 43 in there

[wooden totem]

You found the holiday cheer

[boreal scarab]

It's pretty cool, you just need an account on VirusTotal to see it

[half badge]

Sily question but why does the ai assistant button obscure letters 🗣️

[rose tusk]

merry xmas

[boreal scarab]

And that's just 1 zip I opened too, there's MANY more

[rose tusk]

did you download a zip from vxunderground?

you know the password is infected

[finite tulip]

Do you? I mean I know you do for that kind of image but can't you see network calls (atleast on exe files) when logged out

Anyhow doesn't really matter I probably have an account, if I don't it's easy to create accounts

Edit: I thought you said url bit you said execution parents so nvm

[boreal scarab]

That's the best part... no. I downloaded an APK of this sketchy looking VPN I got an ad for on youtube, did some digging, they registered the site out of Iceland. Nabbed the APK, see what it's doing, and boom, Christmas lights lol

[wooden totem]

You downloaded what now

[boreal scarab]

APK, of a shady as hell VPN app

[rose tusk]

yeah, it's secure

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/i-see-no-problem-here-crazy-eyes-gif-12788383

[wooden totem]

At least you saved the link to the ad to report it later. Right?

[rose tusk]

trust, make sure you put in your bank details, name of the street you lived on, mother's maiden name

[boreal scarab]

Oh 100%. They also are hosting it on AWS, so going to them too.

[rose tusk]

the 3 digits on the back of your card, expiration date, your favourite childhood memory

[finite tulip]

YouTube/Google should really step up their ad moderation with all the scams and even viruses

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-credit-card-gif-5379748197515488745

[wooden totem]

chat can malware execute without opening the downloaded files

[rose tusk]

the name of 3 heretics, the call ok kthulhu, blood of a vampire and a starbucks cup

[boreal scarab]

Does it make you feel better, that even Apple let it through?

[wooden totem]

"it's complicated"
(I see into the future)

[rose tusk]

whichever order you prefer

[finite tulip]

No, not really lol

Just saying that YouTube has a lot of scam ads (MrBeast giveaways for example)

[rapid merlin]

When they try to scam me but I have no money

[wooden totem]

Are the security questions a real thing, I never ever had to type anything like that

(and I'm an adult-ish)

[finite tulip]

I had a friend that fell for a Elon Musk-like scam and added it to his PayPal or something of the sort but he didn't have anything connected to his PayPal (no card, no bank, no money), he just had a Paypal for some reason lol

[boreal scarab]

Go on the play store to check out perms.....
ProtonVPN, 1 tracker, 11 perms
This VPN: 7 Trackers, 37 Perms.....

https://tenor.com/view/fire-fly-uh-um-well-i-dont-know-what-to-say-gif-4132049

[wooden totem]

Now check the other free VPNs

[boreal scarab]

"reputable" or random?

[wooden totem]

https://tenor.com/view/robert-downey-jr-iron-man-is-it-too-much-to-ask-for-both-best-of-both-worlds-why-not-both-gif-3787079

[boreal scarab]

Random: 6 trackers, 17 permissions
"Reputable" (And that's HARD on the "") NordVPN: 3 Trackers, 23 permissions

[rapid merlin]

My vpn is in Norwegian

[boreal scarab]

Express, 2 trackers, 20 permissions

[half badge]

Hey, I have a question: for a person that's getting into cyber security at such time, with AI, automation etc. is it useful for example to know tr"A-M""a-m"""N-Z""n-z" (even if the command is wrong) since we have cyber chef anyway? Basically, should I benefit by studying such stuff or just use online based tools? (No, I do not have any problem nor am I lazy, regarding studying the underlying principles. Just asking if it's efficient)

Thanks for your time!

[boreal scarab]

Going through all these VPN's, that VPN I'm looking into is the highest with the permissions/ trackers

[sand trench]

what are you looking for new vpns for??? you already know of mullvad

[wooden totem]

Ask yourself this - should I learn math if I have the calculator

[wooden totem]

scroll up

[boreal scarab]

Oh no, this was a an ad for a sketchy VPN I got on youtube, looked into it, They're registered out of Iceland, their APK is shady AF, their permissions are HIGH as hell

[half badge]

That's nothing like that! Your logic would apply: I am studying maths but should I do the hard divisions by a calculator or by hand? And I'd say by a calculator since the problem is knowing how to actually solve an equation not a simple time consuming division. So

[wooden totem]

There is your answer

[boreal scarab]

They... they have camera access

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-double-crowd-funny-omg-gif-16929018

[half badge]

Hmm. Any scenario I for some reason won't have access to browser based tool and I'll really need to know commands? Or nah?

[wooden totem]

nah

[half badge]

Aight. Tysm for replying

[clear jackal]

More than likely yes

[rose tusk]

no, i'm just messing around

[half badge]

Ohh

[clear jackal]

You won't always have a computer next to you, standing at a server and such, and you may be in an environment that doesn't have internet or allow outside devices

[wooden totem]

That's so specific tho

[half badge]

Okay, seems reasonable

[clear jackal]

It's really not

Learn the material, don't be dependent/tethered to the internet. Build your offline troubleshooting skills and you'll find things get easier

[rapid merlin]

NO INTERNET?

[half badge]

I mean I don't even understand why I asked that tbh lmao. But idk sometimes I see so many animations and I'm like "am I wasting time?"

Automations*

[finite tulip]

It's quite simple, print out the docs and troubleshooting steps for all of the commands duh 🙄

[rose tusk]

or buy RTFM

it's like £~10 on amazon

[raven karma]

Do you want to hack a website or what?

[half badge]

I'm just a boy trying to be Elliot Alderson 😔 (jk don't come at me pls)

I love the thm subscription. I won't compare it with similar sites but I love that for 10€ a month I can both learn and practice. Have access to everything /nb_asked

[wooden totem]

Ain't gonna lie, if I don't use something very regularly I will 100% forget it, what I don't forget tho is how to get the answer

[sand trench]

welp shadow is spent after having fun with their new tech.... time to go call it a nighty nights to the meep moops while the beep boops

[half badge]

I have no idea how to take notes

[half badge]

GOODNIGHT SHADDOWWW. Have a lovely sleep❤️❤️

[wooden totem]

you will now get sponsorship type messages of notion and obsidian

[sand trench]

quick lesson on note taking.... write down a few words here and there about what you are learning about.... then reformat later

[finite tulip]

notepad.exe, I mean, it's better than nothing at least

[boreal scarab]

AND write settings access.... nice

[sand trench]

and if that does not work out to well go with the teach your rubber ducky friend how to do the thingy

[half badge]

Ty. That's actually useful because my problem with notes is that if I take notes for a subject and stumble across more knowledge abt it, I can't physically yk, know how much paper pages to allocate so I can add later

[half badge]

I mean

Maybe I'll start taking notes on the computer rather than irl because even tho I'm more likely to lose them there, I can yk, allocate space way easier

[half badge]

Lmfao

[wooden totem]

#sponsored by USB case

[half badge]

Lmfaoo

I love IT 🗣️

[finite tulip]

I use notepad personally, it just works. If it ain't broke don't fix it energy yk.

[wooden totem]

this guy is a masochist

[half badge]

Who

[wooden totem]

you did not just ask who after the "I use notepad for notes"

hold on let me change it

[half badge]

Ohh

[knotty pendant]

Does it come with the usbs

[half badge]

Well I'm more of a productivity guy so notepad won't really cut it 🙂

Hell, I even rice my desktop

[wooden totem]

why would it come with usbs, just order usbs in bulk

[knotty pendant]

You would get a case

[wooden totem]

yeah but like you don't buy a case for glasses and are like "there's no glasses in here, hello?"

[knotty pendant]

Hi

[finite tulip]

One document, slowly getting longer as I learn more about cyber security, mostly small code snippets and links (currently about 70 lines I think)

I have used worse ways of taking notes before

[wooden totem]

I think writing in json would be even better

[knotty pendant]

Is this malware or no

Probably

[boreal scarab]

Oh, it ghets better. Virustotal is giving me more info. There's an IP in here, doesn't go to any particular country... ASN is cloudflare, but... uh. There's Mal analysis AND C2 Ransomware crap tied to it.

https://tenor.com/view/its-beautiful-nice-day-weather-spring-autumn-gif-16192794172785996912

[wooden totem]

50/50 if it sells credit card info on black market

[knotty pendant]

It scanned and got 2 malicious thingys

Crdf

[wooden totem]

how did you even get to that site

[knotty pendant]

And seclookup

[boreal scarab]

Or or or... magical thing called GIMP!

[wooden totem]

you should call that person an idiot

[knotty pendant]

Imma update my phone

Bye bye