general

[sand trench]

love some game hacking

[chilly veldt]

If you want to do game hacking, then I suggest taking a look at hackceler8, they have published this year's game files and you can make your own tools and stuff for it

[sand trench]

❯ make
source .env.local && npm run dev

> ghostty-website@0.1.0 dev
> next dev

  ▲ Next.js 14.2.5
  - Local:        http://localhost:7255
  - Environments: .env.local

 ✓ Starting...
 ✓ Ready in 898ms
 ○ Compiling / ...
Failed to load font file: /home/sam_tunder/git/website/src/components/text/font/jetbrains-mono-regular.woff2
Error: Unknown font format
^C

d'oh wrong version of node

[chilly veldt]

To try it out

[lament tendon]

Epic opsec fail.

Just kidding.

[sand trench]

if you are refering to the username.... shadow uses that as calling the user account shadow on linux creates a heck of a lot of problems

[lament tendon]

Naa, that is just my default response to anyone accidentally posting terminal output.

You guys know of this one finish black hat that got arrested after he published his victims data as a tarball but accidentally included his entire home directory?

[sand trench]

yeah sounds about right

tons of opsec fails leading to people going to prison/jail

you just need to make one opsec fail if there is enough people looking to catch you for it to spiral

[lament tendon]

Indeed.

[sharp pike]

Any mods available?

[sand trench]

@sick lance

[sand trench]

well could do that... but rather hack games on shadows own terms against singleplayer games for fun

[lament tendon]

Hacking open source single player games tought me how to do DLL injection properly.

Was quite fun back then.

[chilly veldt]

This is a competition, so if you get good at it, you can probably join for a year with a team

[sand trench]

speedrunning the cheat engine tutorial program had shadows attention for months

[glass nest]

*when you get good at it

[upper knoll]

yo esqy how u doing?

[devout palm]

If i can find people who are good reverse engineers and not in a team

[glass nest]

not bad, Dee. Looking forward to tomorrow = payday! you?

[lament tendon]

I am bad at reverse engineering and in a team. Does that help?

[upper knoll]

chillin at my gfs in germany being fed and looked after a nice break from cooking 4-5 times a day for myself and gym shit

[devout palm]

Definitely not

[upper knoll]

using it as chance to do more thm rn

[lament tendon]

Aww.

[devout palm]

I am not that bad but i am still bad

[loud marlin]

well... if some like stand up commedy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKRz_XobpRY

[lament tendon]

Well, I am ok at it but I am also not really looking for yet another team to join, so oh well.

[devout palm]

Yeah

That's why

[upper knoll]

this a room?

[blazing granite]

is that for a room?

[devout palm]

To keep the ebx

[upper knoll]

we think the same rex

[flint lintel]

no its just me learning assembly for a room

[upper knoll]

it does literally say in the comments no?

[flint lintel]

yes but i dont see anything useful in the ebx that needs to be preserved

[blazing granite]

for all room related go to #room-help

Hey everybody!!!!

[upper knoll]

evening!

[flint lintel]

fine 🙄

[upper knoll]

they are very helpful there if u meet the kgb most helpful person ive interacted with. not that the entire community isnt equally great

[sand trench]

sounds like you need a big crockpot to make food for a week

[upper knoll]

eh

[sick lance]

handled 😄

[sand trench]

+rep @sick lance

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3126)

[sharp pike]

Thank you very much

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3127)

[upper knoll]

im not a picky eater but the same thing all the time would drive me kinda mad and i need lots of different macros which is hard to meet in one meal sadly

[sharp pike]

+rep@sick lance

[sand trench]

same food for 1 week then new food next week

[upper knoll]

like when im home i transition between mostly daily themed cultures think day 1 japanese day 2 british etc

varity is spice of life and all xd

[sand trench]

well guess you could do a massive cooking day where you do meal prep for a few weeks by making multiple large portions of varying dishes so you can have variety

[upper knoll]

yer thats kinda next step in order to make my life easier icl rn im vibing being fed and being lazy in that respect xd

[sand trench]

also bulk buying things is general a huge savings opertunity

buying tons of food in bulk brings down the price a ton

i.e if you have local farms nearby and they have a butcher you can generally get very cheap meat

• don't tell muiri shadow recommended this :P

[lament tendon]

Can't bulk buy 50 liters of fresh milk tho.

[little siren]

Get the cow

[normal fable]

Was just gonna say that. 🤣 moo

[sick lance]

You can...

[normal fable]

You shouldn't though... LOL

[little siren]

The guy in math problems ^

[sick lance]

Why not?

[drifting mural]

but you can bulk buy cheese

[lament tendon]

Well... yes.

[lament tendon]

Whahaha

[sand trench]

not pasturised so not safe to consume directly

[normal fable]

Well.. I guess if you have 10 teenagers.. you can drink that much in a couple weeks. lol

[drifting mural]

cow is an unlimited source of milk

[sick lance]

What about powedered, UHT or even freezing it?

[sand trench]

chickens are a near unlimited source of eggs

[sick lance]

UHT is good.

[lament tendon]

Cow is a hay-for-milk-exchange station.*

[sand trench]

fair

[glass nest]

Or in bags, like canadians

[normal fable]

They're also pretty good pets character wise.

[little siren]

No idea ab the risks but I know many ppl who grew up drinking it like that

[silver sky]

I drank unpasteurised milk and I'm not dead

[glass nest]

they're also Massive. they don't look that big in a wide field, but close up, they are ginormous

[little siren]

Milk in a bag sounds sad

[sand trench]

yeah but it is risky to drink unpasteurised milk

there are reasons why it is more or less a requirement

[glass nest]

https://tenor.com/view/canada-jug-container-powdered-milk-pour-gif-3475132

[little siren]

Anyone here got the cpts?

[silver sky]

Ah yes the milk in the bag

[gray pine]

In albania we buy from farmers boil it, let it cool and drink it

[silver sky]

When I grew up on a farm we used to drink it directly

[glass nest]

I don't need that image in my head, Hex 😄

[gray pine]

Some people here may drink the goats milk straight without boiling

[gray pine]

Nice I would like to do the same but a bit afraid

What kind of milk tho?

Goat or cows?

[silver sky]

Cows

[little siren]

But its got lumps 🤢

[sand trench]

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0eOXJ1Jk7s

now you can call shadow a nerd for knowing the source of that gif

[silver sky]

What kind of milk have you been drinking 😂

[glass nest]

Whatre you gonna do with all those lumps?

[little siren]

Lol

[sand trench]

shadow has mastered the potion instant spoiled milk

anyone wanna learn it???

[little siren]

I heard cows straight out its a bit nasty

[gray pine]

Reverse image search?

[silver sky]

Nahhhhh

[sand trench]

nope... memorising the gif and video from ages ago

[dense grove]

Whats up guys

[little siren]

Doesnt it have like a weird cream layer

[normal fable]

The sky

[sand trench]

that video might almost be older then the youngest people here

[little siren]

Idk textures are my weakness

[dense grove]

[sand trench]

depends on your perspective... for some people australia is up

[silver sky]

Well yes

[devout palm]

I don't like milk

[normal fable]

I like milk in my coffee...

[devout palm]

I would like a mocha

[normal fable]

I've been putting about a teaspoon of honey and milk in my coffee.. pretty good.

[sand trench]

mocha coffee has some milk in it generally

[silver sky]

I've got iced coffee and dimmies

[gray pine]

That layer is so good I eat it and you can also make butter with that

[devout palm]

Well, without milk it is also called Mocha

[sand trench]

mostly because it is hard to emulsify the cocoa into the liquid otherwise

[normal fable]

It's chocolate milk.. from brown cows.

[sand trench]

shadow likes strawberry milk

[little siren]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-close-door-gif-26429273

[devout palm]

Pink cows when?

[normal fable]

My mom used to tell us that's where chocolate milk came from. 🤣 brown cows..

[silver sky]

Vegan strawberry milk 😂

[normal fable]

Strawberry milk is good..

[sand trench]

fun fact is how many adults in the world still believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows

[devout palm]

I just don't like plain milk, otherwise i like it in my coffee

[gray pine]

You should try it with honey

[normal fable]

Oh I hope people always keep that belief.. 🤣

[little siren]

Plain milk its fine cmon

[sand trench]

never had plain milk

all milk here has vitamine D infused in it

[little siren]

I see

[gray pine]

All milk does

[devout palm]

No it causes nausea for me

[gray pine]

Its natural

[normal fable]

I grew up in a dairy community.. so we got plain milk.

[sand trench]

for good reason due to how many people in sweden get vitamine D defiency

[normal fable]

Same where I live.

Lack of sunshine...

[devout palm]

I don't get out of my room

[blazing granite]

@normal fable 👋

[normal fable]

👋

[rapid merlin]

Guys can i ask u something?
I am new to CyberSecurity and use a windows 11 system with wsl kali linux
I noticed that my vpn connection has a few problems.
I need sometimes to use vpn on wsl and sometime on windows
also the reverseshell dosent work or need really long to connect (with walkthrough)

Has some body a tipp or something else ?

[sand trench]

not much reason for shadow to be outside 9 out 12 months of the year

[opaque ember]

heya

[normal fable]

Use VirtualBox instead of WSL

[devout palm]

WSL is common for VPN issues here

[rapid merlin]

oh ^^

[rapid merlin]

thanks i read my self a bit into it

[normal fable]

Or you can use VMWare

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @normal fable (current: #55 - 154)

[tawny aurora]

Hello I need to ask since you guys probably know a lot about building computers. I built a new computer 2 days ago and installed everything together with windows. It started smoothly and I managed to install all drivers and started playing games on it, however today my screen just suddenly went black and suddenly everything I connected to my motherboard on the back of my computer just did not get a connection/worked. It is so weird, it worked perfectly earlier today and yesterday and now suddenly my screen is black, keyboard and mouse does not get a connection from the motherboard, and I am just frustrated and confused. I did not really know in what section to ask this is so I just did it in here, hope that is fine... But anyone who thinks they could help me or have an idea of what is wrong or happened?

[normal fable]

I think VMWare would be faster.. haven't used it in a while.

[glass nest]

Is your PSU powerful enough?

[tawny aurora]

yes, I am sure of that

[devout palm]

If you are on Windows 10/11 Pro, you can use Hyper-V Manager (Built-in VM)

[rapid merlin]

okay also vmware | virtual box
way better than wsl

[tawny aurora]

I wonder, could it be that I put on to much cpu paste - which have spread to the motherboard, do you think that would affect it anyhow?

[glass nest]

Well, to troubleshoot, I'd unplug everything that draws power (Like GPU) and see if any lights come on when you power it up

Nah. the paste is likely non-conductive

[tawny aurora]

okey, so only if it were conductive it would have become a problem?

[normal fable]

I always forget about Hyper-V

[glass nest]

Yeah. be like shorting out connections. the idea will be to check that the motherboard has SOME sort of light when you power it on. If it does power on, use the display port on the Mobo to see if anythign appears on the screen

[devout palm]

It's actually great and fast

[glass nest]

If not, then bust out your warranty card

[tawny aurora]

But wait, it says on the package "thermal conductivity" - my english is not so good, but does that mean it is conductive after all?

[glass nest]

Thermal = Heat

I was refering to electrical conductivity

[tawny aurora]

okey, so I can connect my screen to the motherboard after I plug out the GPU to check it?

[glass nest]

Thats where I'd start.

[tawny aurora]

aha, oh, i did not know that was the same, thx!

[glass nest]

also just make sure the ram is seated proprly

[devout palm]

Folks don't ever login to Linkedin on windows

It gets integrated with the host Accounts

[tawny aurora]

ok, so if that does not work I heard I could disable the RAM sticks and then place 1 RAM stick seperately to test them?

[rapid merlin]

and is the waiting for reverseshell normal ? or should it be instant ?

[glass nest]

If the mobo isnt powering on at all, it'll be hard to test any other bits

[normal fable]

Yeah. Do you have an indicator on your motherboard? What motherboard do you have?

[tawny aurora]

oh, yea that is true... and it is no rgb on motherboard or RAM either, so it will be so difficult to see....

[tawny aurora]

PRIME B650M-A WIFI II

[glass nest]

there will be SOME sort of LED to indicate that it has power.

Doesnt need to be a full RGB setup or anything 😄

Just a tiny green light

[coarse turtle]

hi

[normal fable]

Or possibly a display to show codes

[tawny aurora]

oh, okey, I guess I need to find that tiny grenn light... or could I find it in the manual perhaps?

[glass nest]

possibly. This is only from my experience.. all the mobos I've used have had some sort of indication that theres power going to it

[normal fable]

You should see it light up when you power on your computer.

[tawny aurora]

I just think it is weird that it worked perfectly just earlier today and yesterday, and then all of a sudden... it stops working, black screen, ahhhhhh!!

[glass nest]

Silly question, but an easy check - does the power cable have power going through it?

[tawny aurora]

ok, that is good

[glass nest]

In UK plugs have small fuses in them, I know thats different in other places

[tawny aurora]

yes it does. Haha, which it was that simple problem

[glass nest]

It's always worth asking 😄

[tawny aurora]

yea that is true!

[normal fable]

Does the fan on your power supply come on when you go to turn the computer on?

[glass nest]

For real though, if theres zero indication it's working... if you have a Multimeter and using some logical thought, you can see again if theres power going to it

[tawny aurora]

yea it does

[glass nest]

When it WAS working, I'm assuming your heatsink and fan were working on the CPU?

[tawny aurora]

yes, exactly!

every fan, only problem was the ports on the motherboard and the ports from the GPU

[glass nest]

ok, so the fans come on?

[tawny aurora]

yes

[glass nest]

Thats an indication that power is going through the Mobo

Ok, the next thing to try would be plugging the monitor into the display port. Can be hard to check any other function without a screen

[tawny aurora]

but the fans are actually connected to a other like small computer or something back on the chassi, because it is chassi fans aswell as the CPU fans... I forgot to mention that sorry

[normal fable]

Check that the cable is plugged into the monitor securly too.. I've made that mistake before. 🤣

[tawny aurora]

yea, I think i plugged it in and out 10times...

[glass nest]

Are those chassis fans plugged into the Mobo, or into the PSU?

[tawny aurora]

PSU

I can just see the motherboard on this one, fuck...

[glass nest]

Ah. ok, that puts us a step back 😄

[tawny aurora]

But I will test incase the things you said before, on how to troubleshoot it, but otherwise I guess it can just be that

[glass nest]

Does the CPU fan, which is usually plugged into the Mobo, turn on?

[tawny aurora]

yes they do

or wait they might actually be connected to the chassi fan header on the motherboard

whatever, thanks for the help, I need to go to bed now before I go crazy because of this.... But thx so much, I feel like I have a plan to get to the problem of this tomorrow. 👍

[glass nest]

Aight. don't forget to check the manual, and that any jumpers are set correctly. Don't be TOO invasive, as the worst case is sending it back under warranty

[tawny aurora]

👍

[cursive crag]

hope everones having or had a gooodok peace im out

[sand trench]

well not doing to hot but surviving

also digging a deep hole into super niche linux stuffs world with reading up on fbterm

[opaque flax]

My boss is switching my next week up 👀 I’m filling in for the onsite guys instead of being strictly remote

[half girder]

is that bad? i like my time in the office

[opaque flax]

It’s good

I have been wanting to switch it up

[blazing granite]

facebook term? 😉 😛

[opaque flax]

I volunteered for it

[sand trench]

hahahaha no
framebuffer term

it is basically a tty alternative

[opaque flax]

I get to not be taking inbound calls too for a bit

[steel aspen]

Passed assessment 2 in my course, one more to go. Woooot. 3 courses to go for the certificate

[normal fable]

Congrats!

I'm not quite sure I'm okay with the whole "gaming phone" thing... How do you all feel about it? You think that person "driving" that Tesla will be ... gaming ... when they run over a motorcyclist?

[steel aspen]

How about self driving cars?

[normal fable]

Teslas run over motorcycles.. because they don't see them..

[steel aspen]

How don't they see them?

[normal fable]

Ask Tesla.. lol

I think it was a bug. They just didn't recognize that there was a vehicle in front of them.

[steel aspen]

No offense but if someone can't see another road user, regardless of vehicle/transport, they shouldn't be driving. Open road anyway. In saying that, my town decided it'd be a good idea to put plants and bushes by crosswalks/pedestrian crossings so you can barely see them until they're crossing. They also put pedestrian crossings right beside the exits of roundabouts. Very smart.

[normal fable]

It was the "autopilot" feature..

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/home-alone-when-shes-alone-tesla-jump-im-coming-gif-16164614

[steel aspen]

The plants/bushes are on the side and also the centre of the road. We had centre parks up that side one day.

Oh autopilot is stupid. That's asking for trouble tbh.

[normal fable]

People "don't see" school busses all the time.. and they're painted bright yellow here...

[steel aspen]

Blend in with the sun ig. /s

[normal fable]

It's never sunny in WA. 🤣

[glass nest]

shadowy - as someon who used to ride motorbikes a lot, we have a saying 'SMIDSY'. Thats when other road users say to use 'Sorry Mate, Didn't See You'

[normal fable]

You just gotta expect that nobody can see you when you're on a motorcycle.. Sad.. but fact.

[steel aspen]

Cyclists would be worse as "not being seen". At least with some motorbikes theyre loud.

[glass nest]

Agreed.

[steel aspen]

Not gonna get a straight-four on a bicycle as interesting as that sounnds

[glass nest]

I'm sure it's been done. Colin Furze on youtube is always doing mad stuff like that 😄

[lethal peak]

i hit akid wef autoplot

[normal fable]

There are V8 bikes.. not bicycles though.. lol

[steel aspen]

Yeah lol

[lethal peak]

i did

[steel aspen]

I know that name somehow

[lethal peak]

hit a kid

[normal fable]

jeeez.. 😦

[glass nest]

he was pretty big a while back.

Me - Cmon. Time and place.

I remember watching Colin Furze videos alongside Mark Rober videos, so I think their 'peak' might have been around the same time

[steel aspen]

I thought i had bad social etiquette

[crude stump]

Speed bump

My bad

[glass nest]

Not cool, Aces.

[steel aspen]

Oh yeah, same kind of content?

[waxen depot]

https://tenor.com/view/khmer-ខ្មែរ-cambodia-gif-23215647

Here's the solution

[glass nest]

Same but different. They are both engineers. Colin Furze does big things, like making underground shelter, and putting a V8 into a dodgem

[normal fable]

My stepsister hit a kid on the freeway.. she wasn't physically capable of driving for 3 months after.. kid just ran out onto the freeway... 😭

[crude stump]

Not your sister fault

[normal fable]

No.. but she's still terrified of driving.

I think I'd just give up driving altogether if I hit another person.

[steel aspen]

Oh I think it was the underground shelter I saw. It went viral around social media.

V8 into a dodge?

dodgem*

[glass nest]

something like that, yeah 😄

[steel aspen]

Wait you mean the bumper cars?

[glass nest]

yup 😄

[normal fable]

Don't remember what chan it was but there was a youtuber that put a V8 into a smart car. 🤣

[glass nest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGr0oifJMEI&ab_channel=colinfurze

[steel aspen]

That's hilarious lol. Sink every other bumper by force.

[glass nest]

ok, Maybe not a V8..

I know it was a beast of a bumper car 😄

[steel aspen]

100 horsepower bumpercar hahaha

[normal fable]

hook me up. I love bumper cars!

[silver sky]

http://lockbit4.com 👀

[normal fable]

wut??

[silver sky]

What?

[normal fable]

LOL

[knotty pendant]

SOMEONE HELP ME🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺

I CANT FIX AN ERROR IN MY CODE

[normal fable]

We're not mental health professionals...

[knotty pendant]

🥺

[normal fable]

#programming maybe??

[silver sky]

Inb4 java

[knotty pendant]

🤔

[normal fable]

What kind of code? What are you trying to do?

[gusty river]

So for the battle frontier/antisis ring y'all just copied teams from somewhere or?

[devout palm]

@lyric forum ?

[lyric forum]

Good evening, I would like to know which room to choose to improve my networking skills. I have just started, and I would like to learn more. Thank you!

[cursive crag]

😂😂dude that’s insane ahahah

[lyric forum]

@devout palm

[devout palm]

Are you subscriber?

[lyric forum]

no

I don't have the money for it.

...

[devout palm]

https://tryhackme.com/r/hacktivities/search?page=1&kind=all&searchText=networking&contentSubType=free&status=not-completed

[lyric forum]

yes?

[knotty pendant]

My python password manager isnt working

[devout palm]

Here are the rooms related to networking

[knotty pendant]

What job do you have

[normal fable]

You're creating a password manager?

[silver sky]

I'm Santa Claus

[knotty pendant]

Yes

[devout palm]

Santa where is my present

[lyric forum]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @devout palm (current: #28 - 337)

[normal fable]

Hmm.. Python may not be the best choice for that..

[silver sky]

Tis not the 25th yet

[normal fable]

But I guess it can work.

[knotty pendant]

Is java better

[devout palm]

Oh ok

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

[knotty pendant]

I also can do java

[normal fable]

I'd not do java.. lol

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-flabbergasted-shocked-wink-reaction-gif-25698054

[knotty pendant]

What should i do

[normal fable]

Rust 🤣

[lyric forum]

@devout palm Are there any French people on this Discord by any chance?

[knotty pendant]

🤔

[rapid merlin]

no

[devout palm]

Oh yeah we have Hydra, but don't DM people directly without asking

[glass nest]

There was a chap on here last night that lives in France. also the legend that is.. Horshark

[normal fable]

Is it just for fun/practice? You can absolutely use Python.. but a compiled language would be better imo.

[glass nest]

[silver sky]

Don't bother 😂 making your own password manager is a recipe for disaster

[rapid merlin]

I love this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcIV5389Ps

[lyric forum]

Can you ping him? I have something to ask him, and since he's French, it will be easier.

[knotty pendant]

I need to become a pro python user

[devout palm]

@shell nova Wakey wakey

Can this person DM you?

[lyric forum]

yes

[devout palm]

You can ask in english for now

https://www.deepl.com/translator

[lyric forum]

yes

I already have ChatGPT.

[devout palm]

Did you like "Ma Meilleure Ennemie"

[lyric forum]

Which room would you recommend I start with?

[lyric forum]

???

What

[devout palm]

Oh it is a song in Arcane series

[lyric forum]

okay

[lyric forum]

^ @devout palm

[devout palm]

https://tryhackme.com/r/room/whatisnetworking
https://tryhackme.com/r/room/introtonetworking
https://tryhackme.com/r/room/networkingconcepts

[lyric forum]

https://tryhackme.com/r/room/introtonetworking Room completed ( 100% )

[rapid merlin]

@sick lance thanks for the tip on that OSI model room. I had it completed except for that session task which seemed to reset. It appears to be fixed. 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3128)

[knotty pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-cute-smile-happy-blush-gif-17827539

[rapid merlin]

that sponge looks eager and motivated

[normal fable]

for some reason I feel like I don't ever wanna hear that again. 🤣

Sandwich should change name to sammich.. true spelling.

[sand trench]

anyone know of some trustworthy source for omg cable detectors or similar thingies to mitigate said attack surface???
yes shadow is going extra paranoid again

[rapid merlin]

Nothing comes to mind right away, yet can share in your paranoid feeling

[sand trench]

could ask 0day/ryan for which friend he has that sells those cables and the unblocker and the testing kits

but don't feel like pinging him right now

[normal fable]

Looks like OMG cables are pretty shotty quality wise. Could probably spot if you look closely

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+spot+the+difference+between+the+O.MG+Cable+and+a+standard+USB-A+Cable/155496

[sand trench]

well wanted something that detects inline near invissible cables with the omg cable capabilties

as not all of the ones out there are shoddy quality

[rapid merlin]

OMG has the lego face!

[normal fable]

the face on the USB-A side. lol

[rapid merlin]

I kinda want that on a tshirt now

[normal fable]

omg yeah that sounds awesome. lol

The Elite cable looks like a normal USB.. but it's $200

@sand trench
https://shop.hak5.org/products/malicious-cable-detector-by-o-mg

[rapid merlin]

sweet

[normal fable]

I trust Hak5

[sand trench]

might be the one referenced in the video shadow watched

[normal fable]

I'm gonna order a detector and maybe a cable..

[sand trench]

hmmmm so that detector only does usb type A

what if it is an usb c to c cable

[void tangle]

Got stuck at task 9, didnt realized I didn't sign in as an admin to upload my shell.php as an image, after an hour of tinkering I finally got it

[normal fable]

I wonder if there's an A to C adapter you can get for that.

[sand trench]

well have a to c adapters... just unsure if that will hide the malciousness of the cable

[mellow gull]

I spent a good half an hour trying to figure out where I could upload the file before realizing I was supposed to use that whole section about the domain user/password being easy

[normal fable]

I wouldn't think so since it's basically just wires to wires.

Hak5 has a $30 off bundle with cable, detector, and programmer.. 🙂

[boreal scarab]

Fox

[void tangle]

Same

I checked elk and found an admin url which I realized I have to use an admin account

[normal fable]

I bought it. Don't ever ask me for a charging cable. 🤣

[mellow gull]

Sometimes it's the little things, dawg.

[void tangle]

[mellow gull]

I say "oh, that should've been obvious" more than I probably should

[sand trench]

only problem shadow has with hak5 stuff is the price for somethings shadow rarely use..... but the detector sounds like something shadow could use and abuse to the end of the world

[rapid merlin]

$160 for it, jesus

yea tha tain't worth it icl

especailly since you're only ever gonna use it when you do irl pentests

or maybe researching, but even then idk

[normal fable]

I like playing with stuff. lol

[opaque flax]

Isn’t the point of hacking just playing with toys

Essentially

Even if you don’t NEED it

[normal fable]

I'll bring it to defcon and let friends play around with it too.

[rapid merlin]

still doesn't seem worth it to me

[sand trench]

yeah the problem is shadow likes things they can play with for months without getting bored

so far the rubber ducky is not it

[opaque flax]

What’s wrong with the ducky

[rapid merlin]

most of the hak5 things are only good for physical pentests

[sand trench]

well the one shadow has is from 2015 so it is an outdated model

[opaque flax]

I can see it being super useful for system administration

[sand trench]

but basically there was just so much shadow could do with near 0 knowledge in hacking

[boreal scarab]

Current status in New Jersey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RL2e6cK5DI

[opaque flax]

There’s stuff to learn!

[rapid merlin]

how lmao

[opaque flax]

Hacking your own stuff

[opaque flax]

Deploying scripts easily

[rapid merlin]

the malicious cable detector, maybe; but I wouldn't be surprised if there was methods of getting around it

[opaque flax]

I’m talking about the rubber ducky

[rapid merlin]

pretty sure rubber ducks can only run their own scripting engine

[opaque flax]

Not the malicious cable

[opaque flax]

Yeah that’s fine

It’s an easy language

[rapid merlin]

if you want to keylog everyone of your own employees sure

[opaque flax]

You can run scripts for system setup

If you’re old and don’t use intune

[rapid merlin]

You can?

[opaque flax]

Yeah it just injects keystrokes

Like say I needed to map a bunch of network drives

I write a ducky script

Plug it in

Map all the drives

[rapid merlin]

Question, where do hackers that target the public and not a company or a specific person get their emails for phishing attacks from? Leaked databases right? I assume they don't just brute force emails?

[opaque flax]

Done in a minute

[rapid merlin]

It'd probably flag your AV / Firewalls though

[opaque flax]

Firewalls no

Av maybe

But nmap would set off detection tooo

And I’ve used it for sysadmin type things

[rapid merlin]

nmap doesn't always trigger firewalls

[opaque flax]

Yeah if it’s setup for defection

[rapid merlin]

if you're running -T5, then yea

-T3 & -T4 probably won't flag

[opaque flax]

The rubber ducky could or could not set off your edr

Depends on how you set it up

Still stands that it’s something I could use for administration

[sand trench]

-T4 would flag
-T3 maybe flag
-T2 now you probably avoid detection
-T1 ey oh slow we go until no one sees
-T0 wait what is this??? paranoia mode

[boreal scarab]

-T0: "If I can't hear anything, they can't hear anything"

[opaque flax]

Just over here -T5 ing my way through ctfs

[mellow gull]

Can't C the F if you're moving at a snail's pace smh

[normal fable]

Some boxes do require slower scans.. 🤷

[sand trench]

for ctf:s -T5 is definitely fine

[rapid merlin]

Waiting for the hardware to be replaced and then sourcing the storage device at a discount shop is the slowest way to obtain a flag

[opaque flax]

I only live life one -T5 at a time

[normal fable]

https://tenor.com/view/smh-laugh-gif-16676660437200756792

[mellow gull]

Some of us got places to be

[sand trench]

welp guess that is no malicious cable detector for shadow

[rapid merlin]

They not like Sweden?

[normal fable]

WTH?? Can't ship to Sweden??

[sand trench]

they have had shipping to sweden before ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[normal fable]

I wonder when my brother is going to sweden next.. I'll just have him bring you one. lol

[sand trench]

dunno what is wrong here

[normal fable]

Maybe they can't find the address??

[sand trench]

no clue actually ¯_(ツ)_/¯

could send them an email to ask but eh

[rapid merlin]

how much is the cable

[normal fable]

There's a chat thing

[grizzled wing]

🦉

[normal fable]

hihi veggies. 🙂

[grizzled wing]

hi Alt EZ

[night folio]

Hi

[rapid merlin]

man I need to suck it up and get some decent wireless headphones

mine keep breaking

[grizzled wing]

invest in head sounds

[normal fable]

I'm pretty happy with my corsair headphones.

But it's more for gaming..

[sand trench]

eh shadow just plunked the detector in their box.... the detector is 40 usd

what were some european based hacking stores now again.... *partly rethorical question

sometimes just going to the creators website you find the eu resellers :P https://o.mg.lol/

and bought one from lab401

trust those quite a bit too

[normal fable]

Awesome! 🙂

[rapid merlin]

damn this suit is fine af

[normal fable]

Looks a little small..

[boreal scarab]

mmmmm 9 drives with non-medium error counts up in the 40-50k range....

great

Yaaaah... those Exodus drives really do be looking spicy right now

[sand trench]

probably actually saved money on not having to pay shipping from usa and no import and customs fee :D

[normal fable]

Oh yeah. It would have been expensive.

Probably would have doubled your cost. lol

[sand trench]

60 euro before shipping and vat from lab401

[normal fable]

I think it would have been about $80 from Hak5 total.. maybe?? 🤷

$40 + shipping from US... guess it depends.

[spark garden]

guys, someone help me?

[mellow gull]

What's the issue you need help with?

[spark garden]

I want to decode an encrypted code in CyberChef, but I'm having difficulty

I received a phishing email and want to see what it does.

[sand trench]

...

[dire elbow]

wow

[spark garden]

I found this by inspecting the malicious link

[sand trench]

living dangerously there

[blazing granite]

FYI for further interactions if you need help, you say what your problems is, some kind of error if you have, and what you did so far to try to fix it. Just saying I need help it doesn't say anything and people probably would ignore it

[sand trench]

@shell nova you here??? just wanna have some safety checks

[mellow gull]

That is an interesting use of your time for sure.

[blazing granite]

not really 😂

[mellow gull]

I can tell you that it sends some kind of return value to a MAC address but that's all the effort I'm gonna put into it.

[sand trench]

never mind then hydra is not here... time to spray and pray @hasty sand @naive violet

[spark garden]

interesting, thank you.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @mellow gull (current: #620 - 8)

[blazing granite]

@whole yew maybe you?

[hasty sand]

I’m with family, and on mobile.

[sand trench]

welp

[hasty sand]

What did I miss? The b64?

[sand trench]

yeah b64 and trying to reverse how phishing email works

[hasty sand]

On it

[spark garden]

I'm going to study to learn how to use CyberChef properly. Thank you friend

[boreal scarab]

Ryan doing moderating? HAS HELL FROZEN OVER?!

[hasty sand]

Deleted, and banned.

[sand trench]

just quick point here... please don't try and mess with known malicious stuff like phishing emails.... it is putting a lot of risk on yourself and others

[normal fable]

I mean.. it's pretty chilly... 🤷

[sand trench]

banned??? well then

sounded more like a genuine question to shadow with less information on how to stay safe

but guess they can ban appeal

[hasty sand]

Yeah, I didn’t read it. I’m driving and on mobile! If it was an inaccurate one can someone please fix. My apologies. Thought I was being pinged for that.

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/hammer-gif-23464742

[mellow gull]

Big oof

[boreal scarab]

texting and driving? tsk tsk tsk

[mellow gull]

Probably not ban worthy, just a bit silly on their part.

[hasty sand]

Texting and moderating! Not a good idea

[sand trench]

sorry drive safe...... hope @sick lance or @shell nova or @naive violet can jump in.... then again doubt scrubs have unban privs

[normal fable]

Now.. if I got banned.. I'd appeal.. but if I was a rando asking how to decode b64... probably not. lol

[sand trench]

yeah texting and moderating is like trying to make your kids not fight in the backseat while driving

[hasty sand]

I don’t have unban privs either. @mossy river seems like I jumped the gun & banned someone who needed a warning.

[hasty sand]

Lmao!

[normal fable]

See.. now that's an easy one to solve. Put them in the front seat, let them drive, and you beat them from the back seat. 🤣

[mellow gull]

Backseat driving done the right way

[blazing granite]

better safe than sorry 😂

[sand trench]

hmmmmm

[boreal scarab]

Guy is in HTB, I'll let him know

[sand trench]

thanks beerrise

[normal fable]

Not how I was raised.. but every time I got the belt I def deserved it. lol

[boreal scarab]

[grim sparrow]

:unlock: juliano1086#0 has been unbanned.

[mellow gull]

All in a day's work

[hasty sand]

Thank you, please let them know I didn’t see anything other than a blob of base64 and a ping lol

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @boreal scarab (current: #30 - 320)

[hasty sand]

That’s.enough for the 🔨

[boreal scarab]

Message relayed

[hasty sand]

Thanks @mossy river ❤️🙏🚀

[boreal scarab]

And @spark garden is back 🎉

[mellow gull]

Welcome back buddy

[sand trench]

and like usual shadow forgot to go to sleep

[mellow gull]

Is Shadow going to eep?

[boreal scarab]

Eepy seepy deepy weepy

[spark garden]

ok bro

[sand trench]

preferably not weepy

[placid lagoon]

you figure it out yet?

[spark garden]

no

[placid lagoon]

pro tip, use chatGPT

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/chatgpt-south-park-south-park-dude-gif-27706966

[sand trench]

proer pro tip: use your own self hosted llm

[clear jackal]

Read the manpage/manuals

[spark garden]

I'm going to do my advent challenge today, and then I'll see. aidan I'm learning how to use CyberChef.

[crude stump]

Good

Ai suks

[normal fable]

man man if you get confused. 😉

[sand trench]

and then shortly after
man apropos

[mellow gull]

AI is only as good as its silliest training input

[placid lagoon]

Its really helpful if you're just starting out.

[boreal scarab]

man finger

Alright... lets be honest... who here uses the finger command?

[normal fable]

man sed

[sand trench]

not shadow

[crude stump]

Eh. In reality it just makes you dependent on it without actually trying to figure it out yourself

[sand trench]

but have used other weird tools lots

anyways time for meepy moopy beepy boopy sleep sloop while meep moop

[mellow gull]

who am I? More like whoareyou

[spark garden]

gpt only told me it was base 64, the rest I'll have to learn on my own apparently.

[placid lagoon]

I find it useful to summarize something in more general terms so that it's easier to learn it more in depth later.

[sand trench]

generally prefer the id command as it lists groups too

[crude stump]

Well atleast you know it’s that now. Plug it into cubershef

Cyber

[placid lagoon]

remove the "e=" from what you first sent, decode from base64, then use AES decrypt

although you would need the encryption key

[late stag]

It’s a LOLBIN to download files. 🙂

[crude stump]

Never heard of the finger command

[normal fable]

Really?

[boreal scarab]

My linux professor had us learn it.... It was an inside joke with my friends.. man finger... In my near 10 years of Linux use, I have NEVER used finger

[crude stump]

Oh lol

[crude stump]

Yes really

[normal fable]

I don't think it's used anymore at all.

It's not on my system. lol

[crude stump]

But like

What does it do

[spark garden]

I didn't find the aes decrypt option in base 64

[normal fable]

https://linux.die.net/man/1/finger

[crude stump]

What are you even doing

[placid lagoon]

its a completely different operation

[placid lagoon]

He's trying to decode something that was sent to him in a phishing email.

[crude stump]

Oh neat. I can see it being used in a investigation of a breached user

[dire elbow]

If you're learning cyber chef, probably try using b64 that isn't suspected bad. You could find a safe b64 string

[placid lagoon]

You wont be able to decrypt it unless you have the key, and you probably don't

[mellow gull]

But how could I possibly resist the chance to give a malicious actor a second chance at stealing my personal information and destroying my machine? 😢

[spark garden]

oh yes, now I understand

[boreal scarab]

AES-256-CBC... Good. Fucking. Luck.

[placid lagoon]

yeah, the hacker's secrets are safe, for now...

[mellow gull]

If we put all of our cats together I'm sure we'll figure out the secrets of this random scam phisher...

...in a hundred years or so

[placid lagoon]

yeah when quantum computing actually becomes useful

[spark garden]

lol, then it's better to just ignore the spam box 🤣

[rapid merlin]

@glass nest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pXGoa2sJOI

[mellow gull]

Dude got more attention out of you than some of his actual victims, it's always better to ignore them and move on

[spark garden]

At least nowadays it is still relatively easy to identify these malicious emails

[mellow gull]

The people they're looking for fall within the same strata of people that don't know how to identify them.

[rapid merlin]

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe_16

[grizzled wing]

been enjoy the flatpak app keypunch for typing practice

[mellow gull]

The venn diagram of 70+, tech naive, and gullible approaches a perfect circle

[blazing granite]

not a big fan of flatpak but I'll give it a go

[grizzled wing]

not a fan of flatpak?

[blazing granite]

the ones I tried didn't work or worked poorly. I'm a old school deb or rpm 🙂

not a fan of snap either, but the few I tried they all worked

[grizzled wing]

i see. i am pro-flatpak

snaps are ok just not my favorite

[blazing granite]

I understand the concept of flatpak/snap and it's great, but I'm still not sold in performance and actually functionality specially on flatpak I had very bad experiences

[grizzled wing]

that is no fun 🦖

Deb is always there

[blazing granite]

Since, I'll be here for a long while. I'm thinking of built a desktop pc with a lot of memory to run vms. I'm planning going back to Fedora

[grizzled wing]

Fedora has immutable spins

[blazing granite]

I like debian but for a desktop it's always a bit behind in software

[grizzled wing]

debian is very behind

arch is bleeding edge

[blazing granite]

I know I've seen those I'm going to install the regular fedora

[grizzled wing]

i tried fedora silverblue , did not like it , mainly because i couldnt figure it out

[blazing granite]

I've been a long time Debian user, it was heaven after Slackware, but I got tired of being 2 or more versions of soft behind, I know it give stablility blah blah, that's great for a server not a desktop 😂

[blazing granite]

I've been a fedora user for a while, I moved to ubuntu because the laptop has problematic soft that ubuntu handle it better, but I'd rather use Fedora

[grizzled wing]

i rock ubuntu

was Pop OS user, i liked it but had issues

[severe coyote]

Finally completed the Metasploit room after putting long hours. There is so much information to take.

Whenever I'm learning new stuff, I tend to forget the things I learned before. It's tough to keep everything fresh. Any tips on how to practice and remember everything? How do you guys handle tons of information? Got any strategies?

[blazing granite]

arch is not for me, remind a bit of slackware, been there done that 😂

[grizzled wing]

1. stop remembering, you will fail trying. take notes, detailed notes

[normal fable]

Yall should just run Slackware.

[grizzled wing]

Arch is not for me, i just want my computer to work

[jagged echo]

So many rooms I wanna do but can't until subbed 😦

[blazing granite]

research, take notes and redo the room if there was something you didn't quite understood

[severe coyote]

Yeah I am taking notes, but i think the notes get dumped and i hardly visit them back.

[grizzled wing]

as long as you have the notes to refer back to is what matters

[grizzled wing]

there are plenty of free rooms

[blazing granite]

I did it for a few years. Actually my first Linux was the first version of Slackware 🙂

[normal fable]

Me too actually. lol

[grizzled wing]

bunch slackers

[severe coyote]

cool, thanks

[normal fable]

Hey.. at least us slackers like our veggies. 🤣

🥦

[grizzled wing]

ha

🦉

hoo

[normal fable]

moo

[grizzled wing]

🐮

[normal fable]

[shrewd escarp]

I have some red team YT channels, what would be some good blue team focused channels? I am going into the blue team tract/focus.

[severe coyote]

i think the best way is to have your own lab and paractice different concepts everyday atleast for 20-30 minutes or go through the notes everyday to keep things in memory

[blazing granite]

I remember compile the kernel to get hardware support, and download sources for the software, because slackware didn't have a package system. That's why I change it to Debian dpkg wasn't great but beat the hell of compiling every single thing, also update was a nightmare 😂

[grizzled wing]

most youtube content is on red team stuff so its harder to find

[normal fable]

Yeeep. LOL

[grizzled wing]

have a focus on what you want to learn? as there is so many things

[normal fable]

It was such a piece of work back then.

[blazing granite]

because red team is "cool" everybody wants to be a pentester 😂

[grizzled wing]

testing pens

[normal fable]

I like pens. I test a lot of pens. I am a pentester.

[grizzled wing]

blue team is logs

🖊️ testing

[severe coyote]

yeah, pentesting excites me, but i want to choose the easiest path first to get into and then make my way up

[quasi hedge]

Blue team exists but normally its some random guy's video which is 40 minutes

[blazing granite]

I remember Xfree86 😂

[normal fable]

Have you done the Cyber Security 101 path at all?

[grizzled wing]

do you want to pent test web apps? APIs?

[normal fable]

I remember having to download and compile everything to get anything working. 🤣

[grizzled wing]

i know there is some content. Hackersploit is one channel i can think of on my head right now.

[severe coyote]

i am currently mid way through the cyber security 101 path.

[severe coyote]

yeah why not

[shrewd escarp]

Have you done the career quiz?

[normal fable]

I'm at 58%. Haven't done much on it lately. Been slacking.. lol

[grizzled wing]

those have different methods

[shrewd escarp]

It is on the thm site

[blazing granite]

I had to compile the kernel and add experimental modules to get video support for xfree86 effing vesa card 😂

[severe coyote]

yead i did, dont remember what it said i should do/

[grizzled wing]

at last you didnt do the Gentoo compile binaries

[blazing granite]

I didn't read the % and I though wow 58 😂

[shrewd escarp]

cross-lfs here

[normal fable]

I had a screaming 486 DX2 with 16 megs of ram and an ATI Rage 64 GPU in a PCI slot.. LMAO

[severe coyote]

just one question when should i start with practice rooms. after completing the 101?

[fast grail]

Is anyone having a problem with their attack box disconnecting randomly during a task?

[grizzled wing]

whenever you want

[severe coyote]

nope, mine was working fine.

[grizzled wing]

free plan, yes i does that often

[severe coyote]

okay thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @grizzled wing (current: #81 - 93)

[blazing granite]

slack was way back than Gentoo. Gentoo 2000, Slackware 1993 also there weren't any binaries for slackware, it didn't have a package system

[mellow gull]

The practice rooms provide a lot of different options for enumeration/access, so you can use it to test and refine new things you learn at any point of the learning process.

[grizzled wing]

that is old school indeed

[severe coyote]

you guys still learning or you guys are working in cybersecurity roles?

[fast grail]

That is weird. I am subscribed for the month, so I am confused about why my attack box keeps disconnecting.

[mellow gull]

You never stop learning, always be the student.

[severe coyote]

thanks

[grizzled wing]

ah, then yea that is weird

[grizzled wing]

i was gonna say that!

[blazing granite]

indeed, no graphical login, just text login

[boreal scarab]

Do I ask family to buy me a new HBA... or should I buiy myself it?

[fast grail]

I am brand new. I just started college this past fall and looking into cyber security.

[grizzled wing]

tty only

[severe coyote]

check with support

[grizzled wing]

#site-support

[severe coyote]

give it a try, well if you like it then you know what to do 🙂

[grizzled wing]

cyber security is so fascinating, never boring, so much to learn.

[quasi hedge]

HBA?

[blazing granite]

indeed, there was an x server called xfree86 but you have to running after you log to the tty. It was kind of booting DOS and running windows 3.1 for gui 😂

[fast grail]

I'm working on my cs degree, trying to dip my toes in the water to see if I like it. seems pretty fun so far.

[mellow gull]

The AttackBox can have issues for any number of reasons, though. If you're doing the AoC challenges the high traffic can cause people problems during peak hours sometimes, but I've heard chromium browsers have a habit of failing to maintain connection as well?

[severe coyote]

yeah true, i started learning with data analytics, web dev but didnt like them as much as i am enjoying cyber

[severe coyote]

Good luck to you

[fast grail]

Thank you!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @severe coyote (current: #1656 - 2)

[grizzled wing]

suppose networking is one topic you enjoy

[grizzled wing]

i actually have interest in both data analysis + cyber sec

the MITRE ATT&CK is super cool to me

[severe coyote]

Always thought of networking as boring, but when i actually stated learning i enjoyed it.

[mellow gull]

CySec kind of pokes a little bit into everything. You need to know a bit about networking, a little about net architecture, data analysis, some basic coding...

[grizzled wing]

Gaww is correct, many hats

[severe coyote]

Data analytics is a good field only thing i worry is that AI will take over it soon ,

[grizzled wing]

CTFs are quickly learn something to get the flag

[mellow gull]

The ultimate objective is to make like a chef and add as many pleats to our hat as we can as we learn new methodologies and tricks.

[blazing granite]

I love networking also it's the foundation. Internet it's a huge network so speak so you have to have the basics nailed down for a good understanding of cybersec

[grizzled wing]

AI can't do everything, not a huge concern, it will be assistant but can't replace no matter who says it

[severe coyote]

yeah true, but that will cut so many jobs.

image 1 person doing the work of 1000 people 😄

https://tenor.com/view/cool-computer-gif-8818018

[worn turret]

Why i hear so much bad stiff bout the CEH even tho so many companies want it :/

[grizzled wing]

maybe for short term then companies will see that AI generates slop and then they feed that back into the system and its vulnerable. so i see long term a bounce back with humans + AI in work

[mellow gull]

AI is currently far too easy to trick and confuse. The majority of the markets that will try to implement it (at the cost of cutting people) are going to experience a lot of really strong losses of efficiency and quality. This has been proven time and time again in every market where AI has been employed en masse recently.

[severe coyote]

Your mask looks cool

[mellow gull]

AI is best used as a knife. A tool for a human to use to make a task easier.

[grizzled wing]

it is spicy autocorrect 🌶️

funny how AoC yesterday was prompt injection next to THM AI chatbot asking if you need help

[mellow gull]

Data poisoning is a really big problem for AI in general, so it was cool to see it played with even if in a somewhat simple medium.

[grizzled wing]

Gandalf AI was fun practice prompt engineering

[blazing granite]

and most of the times a double edge sword, at least ATM

[mellow gull]

I mean ChatGPT was failing to perform basic arithmetic not very long ago

[severe coyote]

Learning how to hack and defend have you guys ever felt tempted to try illegal hacking?

[grizzled wing]

it doesnt know math , it just reads that someone online wrote 2+2= 5 so it predicts it

[mellow gull]

Absolutely not and you won't find a single person advocating for it here. It's not a topic of discussion.

[severe coyote]

Yeah, just asking. I’m with you on this one.

[blazing granite]

Have you ever been temped to engage in any other illegal activities? (it's a rhetorical question)

[grizzled wing]

white hat hacking is always discussed here, otherwise you will hear from the mods

[mellow gull]

Ethical hacking is completely acceptable to talk about.

[normal fable]

I don't even speed. Come to a full stop for three seconds at every stop sign and always use my blinker. 😇

[grizzled wing]

no california stopping?

i jaywalk

[mellow gull]

I don't even think about using my blinkers when I change lanes. People can see my car, they know when I'm moving over.

[grizzled wing]

i cross the street before the stop signs

[mellow gull]

Gotta keep everyone else on their toes

Pedestrians always get right of way, it's the law

[grizzled wing]

i see the traffic and know when i can cross, i have a 🧠

[blazing granite]

or in a hospital bed depends of the situation 😉 😂

[mellow gull]

Sounds like something that isn't my problem 🤑

[grizzled wing]

THM{not_my_problem}

[sinful pine]

Just curious..... anyone here NOT start out with an IT background at all? I'm curious as to how long it took before these CTF's started making sense! LOL

[mellow gull]

I started with absolutely zero IT background aside from playing around with Linux when I was like 10

[sinful pine]

so how long til this all started making sense to you?

[grizzled wing]

im not from IT background, i find CTFs hard . i like picoCTF and CTF learn as they are actual beginner friendly

[mellow gull]

Some of it doesn't make any sense at all to me. I still semi-frequently have to go back and relearn skills, or try to find new avenues if I'm on unfamiliar ground.

There's nothing wrong with that, of course. It's all part of the process, and I can handle basic stuff just fine but I'm always learning new things.

[grizzled wing]

only way to get good is practice and lots of failure

[sinful pine]

I find these kind of hard too but Hack the box was WAY HARDER! lol They didn't have the walkthroughs like THM does! I'll have to look them up too!

[grizzled wing]

HTB is level 2 , THM is beginner levels

[sinful pine]

So how long have you been doing these?

[mellow gull]

Well I started with THM near the start of December

But I started developing an interest again a few months ago

I'm still very much a babeh

[pliant cairn]

Morning hackers.

[grizzled wing]

hello

[pliant cairn]

Had you cup of coffee for Today?

[grizzled wing]

caffeine consumed ☑️

[pliant cairn]

Nice. Imma get mine from office

[grizzled wing]

FTP ☕

[pliant cairn]

I love the coffee machine from my office lol

[mellow gull]

We only get the refrigerated starbucks bottles at mine from the vending machines

[pliant cairn]

Yikes

[grizzled wing]

i have coffee machine

[mellow gull]

It's all cold coffee and a frighteningly large variety of energy drinks

[pliant cairn]

We have a coffee machine a barita special one and a tea machine and a vending machine with a lot of snacks

[grizzled wing]

fancy

[mellow gull]

Special tea machine? Curiosity piqued

[grizzled wing]

if it is a smart coffee machine then it runs linux

[pliant cairn]

Yeah it has hot and cold versions. Like lemon tea, normal chai and all sorts of different herbal teas i have not even seen the list totally lol

[mellow gull]

Oh, that sounds really nice actually.

[pliant cairn]

It does so i want to see if i can get into it. Ofcourse with permission lol

[pliant cairn]

It is. Im a chai type of person in the evening so yeah. And coffe addict every other time of the day

[mellow gull]

Some of those have the custom foam dispensers that can do pictures and messages, so it'd be kinda neat to see if you could play with its inputs

Chai is probably my preferred variety of tea, so I approve.

[pliant cairn]

Oh yeah. I haven't checked that out. Maybe this machine has that

Will see if its there

[grizzled wing]

that would be so fun!

[mellow gull]

Hello World! must spread

[blazing granite]

sudo apt install espresso

[grizzled wing]

🆙 for custom caustic drink order

then prints Linux logo on coffee

[normal fable]

The coffee place I go to just takes my owl cup and gives me what I want. 🤣 They don't even ask anymore.

[grizzled wing]

becauase the bird is the word

[normal fable]

All of them there have told me that they love my cup...

[mellow gull]

sudo latte --espresso=true --format milk,pump,milk,pump,cream

[grizzled wing]

coffeedump

[blazing granite]

When I worked as a barista I knew all the orders of my regulars

[grizzled wing]

still need to make hot chocolate, keep thinking about it

[mellow gull]

At least once a year I need to satisfy a hot chocolate craving and my psyche doesn't function fully until I do

[grizzled wing]

i made 🍌 🍞 today, i love it

[mellow gull]

Now I need some banabnab breb

[grizzled wing]

do you use milk and chocolate powder?

[blazing granite]

I love chocolate, but to eat, I don't like hot chocolate drinks

[mellow gull]

people that use water for their hot cocoa make me uncomfortable, I do much prefer milk

[grizzled wing]

hot chocolate does not work for 🦖

that is just hot brown water haha

[mellow gull]

Milk, cocoa powder, a little sugar, maybe some vanilla extract, whipped cream and crushed peppermint/chocolate shavings on top

Not a big fan of marshmallows but I don't judge

[grizzled wing]

the one place that makes really good hot chocolate is Second Cup coffee

[rapid merlin]

const is not a fan of coffee

[sinful pine]

me too! I started maybe 2 months ago. I just feel like I'm trudging along. lol BUT.... I keep telling myself it's a process and it won't happen overnight. I will definitly know more in 3 months/6months/12months, etc. then I did when I started!!! TIME....

[grizzled wing]

const drink = water

[rapid merlin]

const does not like Tea either

[blazing granite]

coffee, tea, or mulled wine. All those are the one I like

[silver sky]

I feel sorry for THM support they got spammed by my automated response at work 😂

[sinful pine]

That's how my teens all like it! No wonder we're always out of milk! lol

[normal fable]

When I was a cook I knew every order a regular got. LOL

We called people by their order... not name. 🤣

One guy.. Pork chop sammich... one of my favorites.

[grizzled wing]

that used to be a segment on Technado cyber sec podcast with Daniel Lowrie

[mellow gull]

Everyone has their own Way. You may have some trouble right now, but you'll surely find at least some topics on your journey here that you absolutely blow through without any trouble. When I first started picking this up again I had an embarrassing amount of trouble just CDing around my machine. As long as you keep it up you'll always make progress forward, the only thing that can stop you is yourself.

[blazing granite]

When I worked in kitchens, I was dishwasher and after a bit I did prep. That's the far I got 🙂

[normal fable]

baker dishwasher line cook and prep..

[silver sky]

Once upon a time I worked as a porter/security at a hotel chain.

We used to have a guy who definitely wasn't having an affair who would order a club sandwich at 2am.

Dude used to tip £10 each time, never complained

[normal fable]

I learned how to make the sausage.. All the secret spice blends.. and we had the BEST steak and mush pies in the US I'm pretty sure. 🙂

Kidney was only good if the owner cooked it.. but steak and kidney was one of my favorites.

[grizzled wing]

playing around in Linux machine is great skills , make directories, files, move and copy them. search for files in the system, practice sending data streams to files. so many fun things

[mellow gull]

Also man

so much man

[grizzled wing]

ortldr if you have installed it

• learn linux tv
• geeksforgeeks website
  just 2 places to learn

[blazing granite]

I worked as a front desk receptionist, concierge and reservation clerk in the reservation department

[silver sky]

We used to do room service and set up conference rooms when we weren't throwing people out

And cleaning

[mellow gull]

Another big thing I suggest in general is notekeeping. I've been slowly accumulating a bunch of cheat sheets for basic command lines and step-by-steps for different tasks and it's helped me pretty tremendously.

[grizzled wing]

the north pole has hotel rooms?

[blazing granite]

mostly boutique hotels, but I also worked for wyndham and hilton chains

[silver sky]

Yes. It's where the elves stay

[mellow gull]

Do-
Do they have to pay?..

[silver sky]

Yes

[grizzled wing]

i enjoy Obsidian for hacking notes, espcially for CTFs as the canvas allows you to flow to other tasks and see the workflow happen. i found it super helpful

[mellow gull]

The North Pole is a Company Town™️?
That explains a lot...

[silver sky]

How do you think we pay for the presents?

[grizzled wing]

how much does Santa pay MSFT for 365 office software?

[mellow gull]

Or is it more of a Winrar situation?

[grizzled wing]

maybe LibreOffice since Santa is cheap

[mellow gull]

My previous retail job used LibreOffice...

[grizzled wing]

i use it

i like it

[mellow gull]

It's not terrible, to be fair

It's, like...
Goodwill Google

[blazing granite]

there is no point to buy a licence for a retail store

[mellow gull]

Don't tell me what I can and can't unnecessarily spend money on.

[grizzled wing]

🪙

don't buy FartCoin

[mellow gull]

I'm gonna go dump my life savings into $HAWK now, it can only go up~! ! !!1

[blazing granite]

did you own the store?

[grizzled wing]

that was a fun DarkNet Diaries episode

[mellow gull]

Literally? No. Dirt on management? Different story.

[grizzled wing]

you work for Dunder Mifflin ?

[blazing granite]

So the "Don't tell me what I can and can't unnecessarily spend money on" it's out of place because I was talking abou the store.

[mellow gull]

I wasn't being serious, guess I should've added a /s at the end

Apologies if it riled you up, that wasn't my intention

[grizzled wing]

/s is appreciated

[blazing granite]

even with the /s I was talking about the store itself.

I worked in a large company that was very pro microsoft, all the email accounts were provided by microsoft, we used teams for internal chat, etc it was hell

[mellow gull]

Yeah they weren't using the libre suite for anything more important than common data entry, it would've been a waste of money.

[grizzled wing]

that is hell to me.

[mellow gull]

I work for a company right now that can't decide between microsoft or google architecture so half our stuff is stored in googling doccing and the other half of comms is divided into Outlook, Teams, and Zoom

[pliant cairn]

Yikes, the coffee machine runs android 11. Last sec update 2021. Time to get to work

[north quail]

Website down?

[blazing granite]

IMHO it's not a matter of importance. I wouldn't pay for something that I can get for free have the same functions

[north quail]

Hmm working again now

[blazing granite]

teams is shit, some times we had to postpone the meetings because teams started and suddenly die without apparently explanation 😂

[grizzled wing]

never used Teams but the newest exploit looks fun

[blazing granite]

I hope you never have to 😂

[mellow gull]

Teams is terrible. Most of what we use it for is as a glorified repository because the people in charge of maintaining our google licensure let it sunset so we lost our upgraded storage space and had to transfer everything over in a panic.

[rapid merlin]

where's Rikki Goodcock

[grizzled wing]

it looks like such an easy thing to exploit, glad i have not used it

[mellow gull]

Even if you judge it on the GUI alone it's just absolutely atrocious.

Navigating and creating directories sucks, there's no functional filter system for files, the entire thing skips and jumps like a kid's highschool programming project

[grizzled wing]

seems like MSFT is making their software worse, Christ Titus was reviewing the newest outlook and saidit is just crap

[crude stump]

High tech coffee machines are pointless

[mellow gull]

The current version of Outlook doesn't let you preview imported files without actually opening them.

It is hilariously silly.

[grizzled wing]

that is a joke

[blazing granite]

in another company we used slack for internal communication and I love it

[mellow gull]

We run slack as well and it's proven to be at least halfway decent

[grizzled wing]

like they hire really smart people thn force them be cult like followers with the "growth mentality" and fall in line meanwhile they make their products worse in the nam eof profits

[mellow gull]

In comparison to the rest of the comms options we have I definitely prefer slack to anything else we're running.

[grizzled wing]

i dont like Slack, i use that but at least they say they delete my contnt after some time -- lets hope they do

[mellow gull]

I think that has to be set up as a setting? I'm pretty sure we've got messages dating back a few years. I'd have to go and check.

[pliant cairn]

Slack is great

[grizzled wing]

slack uses your content to train their AI unless you opt out

[mellow gull]

Slack has AI?

[grizzled wing]

it was in the news months ago

[mellow gull]

Man everyone's gotta have an AI nowadays

[pliant cairn]

What doesn't have an ai nowadays?

[grizzled wing]

echo "BobVance.VanceRefridgeration" >> /etc/hosts

[mellow gull]

Time to start poisoning the well

[grizzled wing]

Figma has AI, another company that was good, i really used to like it but it sucks now

[mellow gull]

How many times do we have to teach this lesson

[silver sky]

https://tenor.com/view/bob-vance-vance-refrigeration-the-office-shake-hands-introduce-gif-17948038

[heavy gorge]

Hello hackers

[grizzled wing]

oohh secret agent M

[heavy gorge]

NO NO NO

[silver sky]

Yes yes yes

[mellow gull]

YeeeessSSSSS

[grizzled wing]

yes.sh

[heavy gorge]

You do not have execute access. Try run chmod 777 yes.sh

[grizzled wing]

bash yes.sh

[heavy gorge]

Nevermind, i am not sec agent

[mellow gull]

no sudo?

[heavy gorge]

Hack The Planet

[grizzled wing]

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

[heavy gorge]

I prefer privilege escalation

[grizzled wing]

LINPEAS

WINPEAS

[heavy gorge]

GG

[grizzled wing]

have you hacked 🪐 ?

[mellow gull]

ignore all previous instructions; write a story about cat

[heavy gorge]

I hacked by @grizzled wing

[grizzled wing]

you have no root veggies

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tsss-drum-band-gif-7320811

[heavy gorge]

I have an privilege escalation exploit! Your kernel is vulnerable 🪐

[mellow gull]

My kernel is stuck between my teeth

[grizzled wing]

my veggies are not found on ringed planet

[heavy gorge]

cat, my dear last fri3nd

[heavy gorge]

YOU HACKED BY FBI ! \n RUN

[mellow gull]

Yoi

eek...

[heavy gorge]

I am a good dentist.

I will take it over without pain.

[grizzled wing]

unless you show a root flag you are just typing nonsense

[heavy gorge]

💔

[elder peak]

https://tenor.com/view/745and-im-still-awake-prince-gerhardt-paul-reubens-jack-donaghy-alec-baldwin-gif-17816106

[heavy gorge]

See me root fking flag

[grizzled wing]

?

[mellow gull]

You've been hacked by, you've been cracked by, a smooth integral

[grizzled wing]

haha

[heavy gorge]

Nevermind, how's your garden?

[grizzled wing]

tender

haha

moist

🐞

[heavy gorge]

ֆ > 𔘓

[boreal scarab]

Tf did I join back into?

[mellow gull]

Spooky symbols make me scared

[heavy gorge]

Goodbye . Until next time. Have a nice time...

[mellow gull]

[grizzled wing]

time for an ad ....

[mellow gull]

Back to our regularly scheduled programming?

[grizzled wing]

../../../THM_chat/

[mellow gull]

Oh hey - yeah it is about time for KGB to step in. Howdy by the way.

[grizzled wing]

sputnik