general

[north raptor]

and maybe after that I could be a Cybersecurity Engineer

[mossy river]

Can you DM me a screenshot, please?

[north raptor]

yessir

[jolly aspen]

Maybe by the interview you’ll be in a state of lucid dream and just nail that phone call

[inner bloom]

Hey guys

[winged summit]

heyo, what's crackin

[north raptor]

haha yeah I need to learn Splunk and Sentinel for the next 9 days

[inner bloom]

I am thinking of making an anonymous chat forem on dark web
As a project
What do you guys think

[north raptor]

So are they gonna ask me basic questions or like crazy questions

like whats an Indexer in Splunk?

[mossy river]

Basic

[north raptor]

whats a forwarder

[mossy river]

It's an internship

[winged summit]

sounds interesting honestly. i wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole, but you do you

[north raptor]

do you think they'll ask me what I should do if I see that theres data exfiltration happening in front of me

[mossy river]

I don't think they would do that on a normal interview

[north raptor]

okay

[mossy river]

You sound like you need to blow off some steam and relax 😆

Take a breather for a minute, go drink some water and collect your thoughts.

[north raptor]

yeah probably, I am cooked rn, I am just nervous and its not even a week away

[inner bloom]

That's alright

[jolly aspen]

Let’s take this to the next level, do you have a coffee machine nearby?

[mossy river]

That's actually an amazing point R0n1n

[winged summit]

how would you keep it anonymous?

[mossy river]

Avoid caffeine before the interview

[opaque flax]

Whatever for?

[jolly aspen]

Start today, maybe

[north raptor]

Nope no coffee machines in the vicinity

[jolly aspen]

For anonymous chatting anonymously and dark

[inner bloom]

Idkk 😭😭
I will have to learn first how it works

[opaque flax]

.onion

[north raptor]

they also said that I need to know French for one of the locations

[winged summit]

my advice is to not change your routine at all for the interview

[north raptor]

I dont know a lot of French, I am like A1 in it

[jolly aspen]

What about a parfait? Parfaits have layers

[opaque flax]

Like peanut butter?

[winged summit]

what about my mind. it also has layers

[north raptor]

what do you mean?

[jolly aspen]

CAKE! Everybody loves cake

[mossy river]

I.. uh- don't

[winged summit]

like, before the interview, don't do anything differently. if you normally eat breakfast, then eat breakfast. if you don't then don't. don't drink coffee if you're not a coffee drinker, etc. don't stop drinking coffee if you are...

[jolly aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-of-course-gif-13889369771881069224

[north raptor]

okay yeah that makes sense

[winged summit]

keep everything the same to maximize your comfort

[jolly aspen]

I think there can be value in reduction of certain beverages. Of course a full withdrawal is not ideal…

[winged summit]

yeah but not right before an interview

imo

[jolly aspen]

Unless someone is prone to anxiety…

[north raptor]

I should learn to use the STAR Methodology

[winged summit]

yeah, i mean, you do you...

ello 🙂

mother f

lol

[jolly aspen]

Yes you have 9 days. If you aren’t a SOC analyst with 3 years experience by then. Everyone will likely die, including myself

[mossy river]

Relax @jolly aspen @winged summit

[north raptor]

I have 0 experience

[winged summit]

fully relaxed lol

[jolly aspen]

Not looking good for me I’m afraid

[blazing granite]

or eclairs and macarons 😂

[winged summit]

culture 1000

+1

-1

[north raptor]

I am currently a Masters student, Masters in Information Systems Security

[winged summit]

lol

+5

i'm a bad boi lol

[opaque flax]

Man I want some dessert now @jolly aspen

[mossy river]

@heavy gorge You will be muted if you continue. Please keep the environment respectful

[jolly aspen]

Gottem!

[north raptor]

sorry?

[opaque flax]

Time to go stuff my face with like 3 cupcakes

[jolly aspen]

Best I can do is an onion

[winged summit]

he's just spazzing out. don't trip ha

[jolly aspen]

I don’t think he was talking to you?

[winged summit]

nah, i was

ha

playfully lol

[opaque flax]

Man people gotta get some dessert and just chiiiiiilllll

[winged summit]

hahaha

roger

[jolly aspen]

Oh I see, he said “I said fkin hi” missed that bit. Wow

[grim sparrow]

:mute: couragebforedth#0 has been muted.

:mute: 0x0mojia#0 has been muted.

[jolly aspen]

🥷

[mossy river]

I really dislike having to mute/ warn/ ban people, can we all just have a nice respectful time please 😄

[jolly aspen]

Got extras?

[opaque flax]

Come on over

[opaque flax]

I don’t envy your job lol

[blazing granite]

cupcakes are a bit of a let down after talking about parfaits, eclairs and macarons 😂

[jolly aspen]

Hahaha

[opaque flax]

There’s great dessert place by me. We can all go and get what we want

[jolly aspen]

Yea, parfaits. Aptly named

[opaque flax]

I just picked the first thing that came to mind

[jolly aspen]

Alright, cupcake

[opaque flax]

😐

[blazing granite]

don't get me wrong I like cupcakes, but they pale in comparison with the others

[jolly aspen]

It sounds like you’ve probably got a much better base than a lot of folks applying for internships. You got this 💪

[jolly aspen]

To be fair, it really depends on the cupcake

There are some absolute bangers out there

[opaque flax]

I’m just tryna share the dessert with you guys and this is the thanks I get

[jolly aspen]

Thank you cupcakes

[blazing granite]

cupcakes are nice, but are more pedestrian, nothing beat the elegance of eclairs and macarons

cannoli are also great if you want to put it on the list

[jolly aspen]

@opaque flax how is the ath7pineapple going?

[opaque flax]

Need to mess with it more

Turned my attention to this box after doing that

Box done

Need to hack my own WiFi

[jolly aspen]

I got a couple AP’s from goodwill and went to town on em

[opaque flax]

I need to go back to the e-waste store

And see what I can find

[jolly aspen]

It’s nice to use a network you aren’t actively using haha

[opaque flax]

I found a cheap sonicwall tz600 thereand now I’m mad I didn’t grab it

[jolly aspen]

Oh nice, I think I just saw a new rce published in sonic wall

[opaque flax]

I keep finding sonic walls at work that need patches

[blazing granite]

that's why you should always regret the thing you did, and not the one you didn't do 😉 😂

[opaque flax]

We don’t seem to have patch management for it

[opaque flax]

Spend money always

[jolly aspen]

Can always just make more

https://tenor.com/view/money-printer-gif-6699448061706491662

[opaque flax]

Okay Brb buying a car that costs more than my yearly income

[jolly aspen]

That’s the spirit

[blazing granite]

not always about money. I have a few regrets in my life, but I bet it would have been bigger regrets if I haven't done some of the stuff 🙂

[north raptor]

yeah this is my field, this is my domain, I am the guy for the job

[opaque flax]

Fair enough

[north raptor]

I just need to make em see that

[blazing granite]

what really kills me it's the what's if

[opaque flax]

Yeah so far I have no regrets (not buying a sonicwall is not a real regret I can get one anywhere)

[blazing granite]

Luckily I haven't any what if 🙂

so far

[opaque flax]

I’ve had to make a major choice.

[jolly aspen]

Good night, all and 🧁 🍨🎂🍮🥠

[opaque flax]

I have what if scenarios

But no regrets

[chilly veldt]

Morning

[mossy river]

Morning Bella

[blazing granite]

Morning. How was the proposal? any news?

[chilly veldt]

It's in 8 hours

[blazing granite]

I hope everything goes great 🙂

[chilly veldt]

Thankz

[cerulean aurora]

is there any tool or site where if isk him for something like a sheat sheet or wordlist n he ll give it to me

[opaque flax]

Like you are searching for a cheat sheet or wordlist?

[mellow gull]

What sort of tool are we talking here? What context? There's so many things, you need to specify a little.

[rapid merlin]

I have some word lists I can give you later

[cerulean aurora]

both

for webapp pentest

[cerulean aurora]

yes please share if it is large will work

[opaque flax]

Are you using seclists?

[rapid merlin]

You get downloadable lists when you do the coursera courses

Will have to be later though.

[sinful moon]

lol I literally make a symbolic link inside of ~ on my pentesting server to make my seclists install easier to access

[rapid merlin]

I bought a couple new books

[sinful moon]

Nice nice, like what?

[rapid merlin]

Deep dive and red team + osint+ blueteam

It’s two books on osint

[sinful moon]

you mean Red Team and Blue Team Field Manuals?

Ah okay

Nice but I’m not immediately familiar with them just from that naming

[rapid merlin]

One is an operator handbook for blue and red team osint

[opaque flax]

Ooh sounds exciting

Physical books or e-books?

[rapid merlin]

I tried to download kali on my Chromebook but even with a clean Chromebook there was no space

[rapid merlin]

I like physical books

[opaque flax]

same too much eye strain with e-books

[sinful moon]

Gotta love that eMMC storage lol

[opaque flax]

I have a couple books that I really need to read

[sinful moon]

Not with a dedicated eink reader, but fair enough

[opaque flax]

Like put the damn phone down and read

[opaque flax]

I haven’t tried one of those tbh

[sinful moon]

They’re stunning irl

[rapid merlin]

I have two I’m already reading 😂

[opaque flax]

I have where wizards stay up late and hackers

Plus powershell for sysadmins

[sinful moon]

Not as great for quick reference, but if you want long reading sessions, especially in the dark, eink is so easy on the eyes and crisp

[rapid merlin]

I have Pegasus and ghost in the wires

[opaque flax]

Yeah the only thing that sucks about physical books is I can’t ctrl + f

[flint sluice]

Looooong battery life too <3

[opaque flax]

Ghost in the wires is on my list!

Where wizards stay up late I need to get to first

[rapid merlin]

Nice

I want to do more physical cyber work

[sinful moon]

If you have any interest in retro computing, “The Cukoo’s Egg” is fantastic for infosec circa 1988 and “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution” is amazing for general retro computing history (not infosec related)

[stoic quarry]

Morning all

[mellow gull]

I am an eBook victim, hands have nerve problems with holding objects (like a book) for too long

[opaque flax]

Also on my list as well!

[opaque flax]

Physical pen testing sounds like fun tbh

[sinful moon]

awesome, both books I rate quite highly, although The Cukoo’s Egg while amazing is somewhat drawn out by the guy describing his life which is fair

but still, he’s chasing an early nation state hacker in the late 80s

[opaque flax]

Hackers:heroes of the computer revolution is on my list I started reading it. Was wild to see names that I’ve heard about while being a defcon and hearing the stories

[chilly veldt]

Just finished up writing what expectations and responsibilities i got vs what a typical apprentice in my education has

[rapid merlin]

Sorry to hear that, my hands can cramp up from holding items but at the same time I can type at super speed for hours. I dunno what that’s about

[sinful moon]

I’m just obsessed with the history and lineage of computing and retro computing in general. Been watching the PBS show, The Computer Chronicles which dates from 1983-2003 heh

[opaque flax]

Fair enough

[sinful moon]

btw that show is all public domain and uploaded to the Internet Archive by the host of the show

[opaque flax]

I like learning about the giants whose shoulders we all stand on today

[mellow gull]

Typing isn't an issue for me either, it's just - items, or holding, I guess. Fingers and hand start cramping up and I get the dropsies sometimes. I sympathize with you

[stoic quarry]

Oh damn, I do love the weird computers that did one thing really well but are just weird relics now

[sinful moon]

if you like that, there’s tons in these episodes

[chilly veldt]

Elizabeth 😭😭

[sinful moon]

and Gary Killdal, the creator of CP/M is most often the co-host

[sinful moon]

This is a bulletpoint list for your self for job seeking?

Yep sounds about right lol

[chilly veldt]

It’s a bulletpoint list for why i need a pay raise

[sinful moon]

sometimes you do have to get your foot in the door with those typical roles and then you can expand to do what you want

ah okay

obvs can’t present that as is to management but makes sense.

[chilly veldt]

It's a "what I do, vs what a person in my apprenticeship does"

[sinful moon]

mhmm

[rapid merlin]

Good luck

[sinful moon]

Agreed!

Thankfully at such a small company as mine, I was recognized quick, but yeah I’m adverse to bringing up pay raises unless it’s really nessssary

[rapid merlin]

Yeah that’s the one. I also get nerve issues. I just ordered a back support. Every now and then I’ll give a zap up my foot, from my heel to my toes.

[sinful moon]

but I highy recommend for you to be your own advocate if the time is right

no one else will

[steel aspen]

You'd think in such an IT and network connected world, there wouldn't be much competition for jobs lol

[rapid merlin]

Yeah I wouldn’t be able to ask either

[chilly veldt]

Well, when they don't pay me enough to live for and expect me to do all that, then I had to pull into a salary meeting and say "hey, I know I'm on salary steps, but this shit isn't enough"

[rapid merlin]

I’ll be screwed if I started working in the UK

[sinful moon]

My first pay raise was when I told the office manager that “OMG it’s my first anniversary” and she was like “alright let’s negotiate your raise”… um what

Couldn’t complain but took me aback lol

[opaque flax]

If I stay at my job for a year apparently we can negotiate pay raises

[mellow narwhal]

Damn, I didn't realise you have to present so many points for a salary raise 😭

[sinful moon]

ah maybe that’s more common than I thought

[stoic quarry]

I think usually it's the 12 month stage that they bring up pay rises

Depends on location tho

[rapid merlin]

In the UK if you work past 16 hours you no longer get the help you need as a parent. You would then have to pay full rent and bills eg

[sinful moon]

I was just legit excited about my first year there at the time with no ulterior motives lol

[rapid merlin]

When you compare pay to living here it’s impossible. Even if I worked 30k I wouldn’t live with a child. We would be screwed

[sinful moon]

thankfully just when I was feeling like I had to say something, management did give us a raise to keep up with inflation which helped tons

[mellow narwhal]

yeah, retention bonuses I think, increases with the number of years you stay

[mellow gull]

Zagreus is now potato colored

[chilly veldt]

Well I do, so I can pull in a 40% pay increase

[opaque flax]

Depends on the place of course. That’s another nice thing about government. I used to be on pay steps and get guaranteed raises and knew exactly when I was getting my raise and how much

I was also union so that helped too

[mellow narwhal]

Lol, yeah 🤣

[stoic quarry]

Unions are a pretty big help with that sorta thing

[sinful moon]

Govermenet jobs tend to be cozy job security wise but have a poor technical reputation depending on the field

[chilly veldt]

My situation is a lot different, cause I am trying to pull in a lot higher salary than a normal 8% salary increase

[opaque flax]

I was not in technical field when I worked for the gov

[sinful moon]

totally fair

[opaque flax]

But yeah job security and benefits are good in gov

Plus usually pay is lower

But you usually have a better set of steps

[sinful moon]

mhmm

[mellow narwhal]

Nice government lol. I think our govt jobs are either unpaid/low pay

[mellow gull]

I am extremely fortunate to be employed by the state and have more than suitable time to do my study
education sector too so I get discounts on a whole bunch of stuff

[opaque flax]

All are

There’s a trade off with gov and it’s usually lower pay than the private industry

[sinful moon]

Reminds me of when I worked in special education and home health care. Very critical government funded jobs but the pay was crap

when I started in IT I was salty that I was paid so much more to keep servers alive than I was to keep a human being alive, but that’s captilism for you

[opaque flax]

I actually took a pay cut to come to IT

But I know that in the long run I’ll make more than what I was

[sinful moon]

ah it was like a 3x increase for me

[opaque flax]

I halved my pay just about

[sinful moon]

but yeah gotta consider the work I was doing unfortunately, undervalued despite how critical it was

[opaque flax]

For sure

[chilly veldt]

It'll be a 3x increase for me when I go full-time

And have finished my education

[sinful moon]

Either way, I’m putting feelers out job wise while my company goes through a transitionary period. I’d rather hedge my bets just in case and get myself out there

[opaque flax]

Always good to have a backup plan

[sinful moon]

unfortunately all those previous networking connections I had are now not hiring, so we’ll see

was offered a job twice by my friend, Incident Response Manager for a major org. But didn’t feel it was time yet. Lol now it’s time but rip, but there’s more out there

[chilly veldt]

Right now I earn 2500-2600 USD a month before tax
Next month I no matter what increase to 3002 USD before tax
And I am going to ask for 4211 USD before tax if everything goes well
And my minimum asking price is 3647 USD before tax

[mellow gull]

The right opportunity will arrive when it's time.

[sinful moon]

mhmm we shall see. But yeah I will stress that networking is critical, but heck even here is a great place to get started there

[mellow gull]

Feel like it requires parantheses when we're talking about jobs

Networking(IT) vs Networking(Job Connections)

[sinful moon]

lol indeed, I had hoped context would make it clear enough. But yeah silly we use the same terms, but understandably so

[tawdry kite]

how to verify discord ?

[opaque flax]

Both are crucial! 1 just depends on what you wanna do

[sharp citrus]

Discord: How do I verify my TryHackMe account?

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[steel aspen]

They don't look a day over 37

[mellow gull]

H a h

[tawdry kite]

thanks

[sinful moon]

gah beat me to it

[opaque flax]

I failed 🙂

[steel aspen]

They don't look a day over 37

Forgot to add text with pic 😎

[mellow gull]

Victory is mine, the early bird watches the rabbit lose the worm

[sinful moon]

lolol

[rapid merlin]

What’s a good amount of storage to have on a laptop and what’s the top two brands

[opaque flax]

😦

[steel aspen]

Binary joke BTW

[opaque flax]

Rabbit loses the worm

[tawdry kite]

t

[opaque flax]

Samsung and idk like 2TB

[sinful moon]

That depends highly on your needs, Stealth. 512GB min, up to 2TB+ if you play a lot of games

[mellow gull]

What're we using the laptop for

[opaque flax]

Depends on what you’re using the laptop for ig

[sinful moon]

and yeah Samsung m.2 NVMe drives are great

I got my M4 Mac Mini with only 512GB storage, but it’s just a side machine for work. I got a 512GB OLED Steam Deck but that’s only for gaming and easily expanded via SD Cards (suprisingly fast with the right spec)

for laptops I try to go 2TB or higher

[mellow narwhal]

Based on the work you mentioned you do, it definitely needs to be a lot more lol

[mellow gull]

I'm a little ashamed to admit it (I'm just very poor) but I've been surviving with a 515gb (more like 450) SSD with a 1TB HDD for the last several years on my main machine

Funny to think my next device, probably a laptop, will eclipse it

[stoic quarry]

Storage is pretty cheap nowadays isn't it?

[knotty cargo]

Yes

[sinful moon]

Yeah and getting cheaper all the time

[stoic quarry]

Hell yeah, always good

[mellow narwhal]

It is yes

[sinful moon]

it’s insane how cheap even m.2 NVMe drives are getting

[knotty cargo]

I got my 256gb ssd for 26$ to my house's door

[stoic quarry]

That's wild

[rapid merlin]

Not for games, running VMS and doing tech stuff

[sinful moon]

For VMs and tech stuff I’d say 1TB minimum

[mellow narwhal]

i have four Google accounts and two Microsoft accounts, so that's 80 gb of cloud storage right there

[sinful moon]

you can make 512GB work but idk how many VMs and more

[knotty cargo]

Yh every n

Very vm*

Needs like 50gb

[mellow narwhal]

My machine disk storage is 500 something gb I think

[sinful moon]

But I’m very media heavy myself besides my tech uses

[rapid merlin]

Okay thank you

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #34 - 265)

[mellow gull]

I've got about~ 10 VMs running on about 250gb

[sinful moon]

But we also have like 48TB in the NAS and 64TB in the server so shhh

[knotty cargo]

Ny setup is a bit different

Ive real machines connected to a real router

[opaque flax]

Elizabeth out here flexing any time she can

[mellow gull]

Wow, unc (this is humor)

[opaque flax]

😄

[sinful moon]

I mean 1,300 blu-ray backups is a non-trivial amount of space lol

[rapid merlin]

I tried to run a VM thing on my mums computer

And my god does it lag

[sinful moon]

which I guess is a flex in and of itself, oh well

[quaint glacier]

Yo im so confused on my first think

thing

[knotty cargo]

Fr im using ubuntu on my main laptop, and cheap desktops running windows

[steel aspen]

Memes incoming lol no text wall don't worry

[opaque flax]

“If won the lottery I wouldn’t tell people but there would be signs”

-zettabyte server appears in my house

[sinful moon]

lol

[mellow gull]

VMs run mostly on virtual memory/RAM. If the tech is old/poorly configured/low amount, it isn't gonna run well.

[rapid merlin]

It was pretty bad

It would crash

I had to close it

[sinful moon]

Resisting the urge to mention the 256GB of RAM in my server… I need to stop lol

[stoic quarry]

How much RAM did it have?

[sinful moon]

but yeah RAM is most critical

[knotty cargo]

Add ppa:respawn to sources.list

[stoic quarry]

Oh my lord

[mellow gull]

My main desktop uses modern DDR4 and it works well enough with VMs, I imagine the new stuff is even better for it

[sinful moon]

Ironically a lot of my interest is in retro OSes which take up trivial amounts of RAM, but infosec labs can take up a good bit with all the modern VMs you need

[stoic quarry]

I guess it's the same with storage right? Memory will just get better and better as time goes on

[knotty cargo]

Bro has more ram than my ssd 💀

[sinful moon]

I will also mention my remote infosec server runs on 4GB of RAM (no gui) and is overkill

[opaque flax]

As opposed to legacy ddr4

[knotty cargo]

I cant type well i just woke up

[sinful moon]

can easily get away with 2GB or less for a tty only pentesting server

[mellow gull]

Naturally

[opaque flax]

Ddr4 is legacy now right?

Right?

[rapid merlin]

Okay so look for ram and memory

[sinful moon]

I mean that’s the same thing but sure

[mellow gull]

Yeah if you're using DDR4 you may as well just throw away the whole machine

[mossy river]

what 😭

[sinful moon]

Many older laptops can actually be upgraded via SO-DIMM sized RAM

just check first

[opaque flax]

Me using a server that has ddr3 still

[north raptor]

guys, lets say I wanna see a scanning attempt in Splunk, how do I go about doing that? what am i looking for exactly

[opaque flax]

It really depends tbh

On a lot

But ig user agent would be a good one. Nmap afaik has its own user agent

[rapid merlin]

I can’t even say I’ve just woken up

😭

[sinful moon]

lol meanwhile it’s past bedtime for me but chatting with you all is too enticing

[chilly veldt]

We are still in a startup company, and the fulltime devs we have get 4800 USD before tax
I am gone a couple of months a year, due to going back to school, therefore I have to 1.5x my salary to see from their shoes my "worth"

[rapid merlin]

That’s cute ☺️

Okay so what’s the minimum ram I should get

[chilly veldt]

16

[sinful moon]

Tomorrow is mainly server reboots for me for a single client and coordinating sofware update with my coworker so should be pretty laid back though

[stoic quarry]

Good luck!

[mellow gull]

Depending on the architecture you want to run, 32gb at minimum is my bet

[sinful moon]

Thanks, I never look foward to patching servers the day after Patch Tuesday so we shall see

[stoic quarry]

Vulnerability management is such a pain

[sinful moon]

I will for sure be reading /r/sysadmin Patch Tuesday thread and more as always

[stoic quarry]

Lmao nice. I know Patchapalooza is okay for a high level for any management that want to know what's going on for whatever reason

[sinful moon]

It uesd to be we patched two client’s servers every Wednesday but thankfully that’s now once a month. Just meant I more than got in the habbit of reading everything about Patch Tuesday since Microsoft loves to break things

For consumers, who cares, but for business “whoops we broke RD Gateway this month” is a big deal lol

[stoic quarry]

MSP life just means I need to hope and pray that the engineering teams do their job

[sinful moon]

haha yeah, MSP here as well

[stoic quarry]

It can definitely be fun

But yeah patching is just a whole beast

[sinful moon]

Yeah I get to wear “all the hats” which is both a blessing and a curse lol

[north raptor]

upon entering the query status = "404" I get the scanner, uh why?

can someone explain?

[sinful moon]

But will look amazing on a resmue

[stoic quarry]

Getting my first SOC job at an MSP has definitely given me experience in every field before I decide what path I wanna go down

Helpdesk > SOC Hell yeah

[opaque flax]

Without more information not really

[sinful moon]

Meanwhile our org is small enough that we outsource the SOC so… I’m the SOC manager lol

[south hare]

hi, does anyonw know how can I link my existing tryhackme account to my new discord account?

[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

Jan 15, 2025, 7:23 AM

[sinful moon]

If it’s already linked to a previous Discord account you’ll need to interact with the moderators or staff here

If it’s never been linked before, then yeah see the above

[stoic quarry]

I had to transfer yeah, just as a mod. Ezpz

[south hare]

yea, I think the above doc worked, thanks.
I was stupid and in panic mode over my lost discord account with so many nice servers in there, and now I have to run my brains on what discord servers was I a part of. I had this documentation page opened but never bothered to read in between the details.

[sinful moon]

No worries, glad you got it going here at least

I’m up to like 75+ servers which should probably use some pruning, lol. It’s too much for anyone to keep up with, but at the same time, so many of my servers are info about a specific project or similar

I will say it’s somewhat unfortunate that what once was hosted on forums and similar are now exclusive to Discords you have to join, but thats just modern tech for you

[south hare]

yea, similar situation. I had collabs with 10ish groups on different topics, but all is lost and it will take a good amount of time to get up to speed.

[sinful moon]

If really needed, you may be able to work with Discord staff to recover your account if you weren’t able to do so by the normal means.

But lost MFA and recovery codes is the only way that makes any sense to me

[south hare]

discord staff says I need access to the email account (even though I do have the valid phone and the backup/recovery codes associated with that account).

[sinful moon]

If you lost access to that email as well, then I don’t blame them since that’s getting a bit more sus sounding from their perspective

[south hare]

but that's the whole point, I lost access to the email account long back since that was my university account(childish mindset back then, couldn't foresee this day coming my way). but what's troubling is, even though I do have phone, backup/recovery codes, 2FA settings, I can't really get back my account. 😦

[sinful moon]

I’ll just say, use a Password manager and a MFA solution which allows for easy phone transfers

[south hare]

that's what I started now. 1Password is what I'm using now.

[sinful moon]

Bitwarden as a password manager and Authy for MFA are two open source friendly and free solutions I can can recommend

[south hare]

and google authenticator.

[sinful moon]

Cool 1Password is also great. Google Auth is a bit encumbered but nbd

[south hare]

yea, using authy too. I'll explore bitwarden.

[sinful moon]

nah 1Password is solid. I love Bitwarden but no issues there

but yeah Google Auth while it does have phone transfer just has Google baggage, that’s my only complaint so you’re not far off from a great setup already

even having these two at all puts you ahead of like 90% of the population lol

[south hare]

yea, makes sense. learnt it the hard way xD

Thanks for this, and glad to be back to atleast the servers that I can remember. 🙂

Thankfully, this wasn't a hassle.

[sinful moon]

totally fair, it happens to us all eventually

mhmm no worries

Just remember with Google Auth, you must have the old phone to provide the QR code for your new phone. They don’t have a provision for lost phone or cloud sync ironically

I believe Authy is a bit more sane since I’ve transferred it from Android to iOS even

[rapid merlin]

Almost all the laptops are HP

[sinful moon]

I’m so sorry

lol vast majority of my friends and family tech support is on HP laptops and they’re awful to work on and often have issues with thermal throttling or battery bulging

I’d recommend Asus, Dell, and Lenovo probably in that order laptop wise but it depends on what you’re looking for highly

[south hare]

this was helpful. didn't know. I'll migrate to authy too. don't want to see myself in a similar situation again.

[rapid merlin]

Ah okay thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #34 - 266)

[sinful moon]

Yeah totally fair, about my only complaint is they don’t have a dark mode on mobile but lol… you’re in your MFA app for like 30 seconds most anyways

[sinful moon]

No problem! Asus == Gaming++/Productivity, Dell == Work++/Productivty+, Lenovo == Gaming+/Work+

idk what kinda grades those are but lol shh it’s late

I guess I split work out from productivity in that which are better for the actual workplace

[knotty pendant]

Your so sigma for sending this

[stoic quarry]

Wild thing to say

[sinful moon]

lol I think that’s a compliment in modern parlance, so thank you?

[sick lance]

All the dells I've seen the battery doesn't work, nevermind bulging.

[sinful moon]

We are a Dell Partner but fair, we’ve seen some duds, just not often

[sick lance]

Woth most things, it's really dependent on the exact model you have, if you experience the common issues

[sinful moon]

That kinda goes for all OEMS but sure

[stoic quarry]

I usually just keep a laptop plugged in at all times. I know the batteries are all fried on my laptops

[halcyon dune]

I realized something, even when I push myself outside the home to socialize - I'm becoming better at socializing, though really at this point I think for me social media for me is pointless as I don't really get following or views overall, it doesn't benefit me at all.

[sinful moon]

Dell Precision 7770 iirc is the hellish ones we sold

do not recommend

[halcyon dune]

[sinful moon]

https://youtu.be/68rCeK3l0Os

They can’t all be winners but holy crap Dell

these Precision laptops are supposed to be workstation replacement grade

but they fricked up the power delivery and they always be thermal throttling

[stoic quarry]

Lmao, everyone makes mistakes ig

[sinful moon]

mhmm, typically though we can’t complain much with Dell for business

and I still have 1999 and 2002 Dell desktops running for myself personally

and yes lol that 2016 Dell PowerEdge T430 server I love as well

[split compass]

Elite people, doing elite things.

[stoic quarry]

I think we partner with HP, though I don't do any sort of procurement or delivery

Leave that to the higher ups, let me look at logs!

[sinful moon]

Mind you HP != HP Enterprise

HP Enterprise is freaking rad

[stoic quarry]

Managed to reclaim #1 in my country for this month, only 16 days to go

[sinful moon]

HP consumer grade I just think is garbo tho

[stoic quarry]

I always remember their hinges being weird

[graceful mauve]

Hey, what's everyone up to?

[stoic quarry]

Maybe that was in 2016, but anyone I know who had HP laptops would always complain they snapped too easy

[sinful moon]

Yeah never had anything but bad luck from HP consumer grade stuff

[stoic quarry]

Lmao, I'll steer clear

[sinful moon]

can’t tell you how many I’ve needed to fix just in my personal life alone, very little professionally since we don’t recommend them either

[graceful mauve]

I have never seen HP used in enterprise environments

I may have not seen em all though

[stoic quarry]

Actually, now that I think about it about half of our fleet is HP. The hinges seem to be okay so far

[sinful moon]

HP Enterprise is used a good bit in servers, thin clients, and their business grade computers

[stoic quarry]

I'm stuck in the past, but good to know HP being doodoo isn't just a bias I had

[sinful moon]

Yeah first hand experience for their consumer gear, but yeah it stops there

[graceful mauve]

Wait I was thinking the actual HP computers 😂

[sinful moon]

“Lets clean the fans to fix thermal throttling” often involves complete dissessambing the laptop including keyboard and top parts too

[stoic quarry]

I have some EliteDesk's sat in a bag. I was going to get them running WireGuard or something but I might just get another small form factor thing

Don't really want to deal with HP stuff if they're that bad

[graceful mauve]

Apparently HP makes enterprise printers

[sinful moon]

and on the topic of hinges, had a sister who’s HP had ribbon cable failure due to the hinges lol

[stoic quarry]

That is actually insane

Did it run through the hinge???

[stoic quarry]

I don't even want to look at what else they offer

[sinful moon]

mhmm it only had two hinges as the only connections between the two halfs

her failure made the LCD fail in weird ways depending on position

normal use

[stoic quarry]

I'm only now thinking about how that's the only connection between the screen and the MOBO yeah

[sinful moon]

mhmm

[stoic quarry]

Never even thought about that lol

Listen, I don't do much hardware stuff

[sinful moon]

it’s okie, I’m much more a software kinda gal beyond retro hardware but yeah I do have to fix friends and family hardware from time to time

[graceful mauve]

They may have good tape libraries or tape carriages though

[sinful moon]

although lol I did buy this PowerEdge server so I could do hardware on the same things I administrated remotely at work

brb

[stoic quarry]

An HP tape would go hard

[stoic quarry]

That's taking homelabbing to the next level

I still need to set one up lmao

[sinful moon]

It’s massive overkill for most, but if my SO wants to run three video encoding VMs at the same time, it can handle it lol

[stoic quarry]

That's awesome

I just wanna run Jellyfin and Wireguard (so I can use the Jellyfin remotely) and my crappy old Gigabyte laptop does the trick

[sinful moon]

Here’s average load back when it was on ESXi/vSphere:

It’s a Proxmox server now

[stoic quarry]

147 GB used the dream

[sinful moon]

dual Xeon CPUs

haha yeah, pretty insane

[stoic quarry]

I need to learn Proxmox

[sinful moon]

but my SO insists to use GUIs on all his VMs so that’s part of it

[stoic quarry]

I've not set it up before but I've used it at least 🙃

[sinful moon]

he hasn’t learned the art of actually creating a proper “server” so to speak lol

[stoic quarry]

Any good resources outside of just jumping in and doing it?

Hands on is usually my approach to learning something new

[sinful moon]

If you have experience with virt-manager on Linux or UTM on macOS/iOS then you basically already have Proxmox experience. It’s just qemu/kvm built out into a full vSphere like solution

[stoic quarry]

Ah cool

I don't have experience with either 😶‍🌫️
Just VirtualBox, but I know I gotta expand what I'm able to set up by myself

[sinful moon]

if you have any qemu/kvm knowledge, it will directly transfer, but yeah, not quite as easy as ESXi but sure is more cost effective

VirtualBox == Oracle 🤢

Plus I had a terrible time with it in the past lol

[stoic quarry]

Part of the reason I wanted to get into ProxMox-ing it all

[sinful moon]

Totally fair!

[stoic quarry]

Much prefer FOSS stuff, but yeah I'll take a looksee at virt-manager first

Then get my hands dirty with Proxmox

[sinful moon]

Yeah virt-manager if you are on Linux is the perfect intro

[stoic quarry]

Beaut, thanks!

[sinful moon]

same exact systems but on a more local desktop scope

mhmm, no problem!

Just yeah this has virtio drivers for Windows, while these are built into Linux natively. It’s the same sorta thing as VMware tools vs open-vm-tools on Linux and whatever the heck Oracle uses

But yeah follow some guides online for your first couple, which will give you some best practices

[stoic quarry]

Cool cool, might finally get my homelab set up when I move

[sinful moon]

Nice nice!

[stoic quarry]

What was the big VM thing recently

Like last year

[sinful moon]

VMware going bust lol

[stoic quarry]

Someone bought Vmware right?

Yeahhh

[sinful moon]

Yeah Broadcom

[stoic quarry]

They completely screwed the country I'm in with their licensing

[sinful moon]

it’s gotten so bad they pushed me as a homelab user who was paying them $200 a year for the privilage out too

I now have to take one of two certificates to get those licenses again

[mellow gull]

Broadcom has caused me nothing but pain

[sinful moon]

yeah not happing

[stoic quarry]

We're too small to have our own resellers, so we need to talk to the next country over to get anything iirc

(Again I'm not in procurement or anything so I just heard people yelling angrily about Broadcom)

[sinful moon]

It is sad, because once upon a time $200 for every VMware product license they have was a pretty good deal

but they burned just about every bridge they could, including home lab which is wild

[stoic quarry]

SaaS lifecycle innit

[sinful moon]

how do people prepare for the certs to get the licenses without the licenses to the software?

I mean I could with what I know now but frick that

[stoic quarry]

Nessus has a similar sort of deal I think? I believe it's a bit more reasonable

[sinful moon]

iirc it’s not a good deal and I did not consider it for home use

I deployed OpenVAS myself professionally even

[stoic quarry]

Nice

[sinful moon]

Yee just using the Greenbone Community Containers and a VPS host

[stoic quarry]

I always like seeing a FOSS product being used at the enterprise level, feels less like they're thinking "we paid a lot of money, it must be good!" when they make decisions

[sinful moon]

It’s enough for us to do quarterly external IP scanning for all clients which is a great check

[stoic quarry]

Very nice

[sinful moon]

I keep pushing for internal scans too but I need to make more noise to actually have that happen when I’m 800 miles away

[sinful moon]

Meanwhile I did get Bitwarden deployed and feels good. I’m a loyal user myself, but yeah always going to be some users who struggle

[stoic quarry]

We used to use Nessus for internal scans, it was the type of product where one person had to commit their job to it because it was so confusing for the rest of us

[sinful moon]

Just better than the non-centralized LastPass we had before lolol

[stoic quarry]

At least it's getting used

[sinful moon]

Mhmm

[stoic quarry]

We can push password managers as hard as we can, but it comes down to management

Like everything seems to

Yay

[sinful moon]

Yeah selling to management is always the hardest, took me three years to get the RMM and Email Security products he asked me to research approved

and what do you know, both work phenominically better than our old 2000-2010 era tech there previously

[stoic quarry]

What!!!!

Crazy that when you listen to someone, things actually get done

[sinful moon]

Our new email security product sees a 10x reduction in spam and phishing email remediation for clients

same product I’ve been asking for for years, and glad it’s worked out so well

[stoic quarry]

Can I ask what it is?

[sinful moon]

Literally on the order of 30 requests to 3 requests in a two week period

Eh I try to be cagey with this stuff but sure

[stoic quarry]

No worries

[sinful moon]

We used dedicated Barracuda Email Gateway servers and moved to Avanan (Now Checkpoint Harmony Email & Collaboration). Although to be fair, not everyone was moved over to O365 when we were considering options which is a key factor for Avanan which is completely API based

[stoic quarry]

Ah checkpoint yeah, I've had a bit of experience with it.

[sinful moon]

I can’t speak for the rest of their product line what so ever, but they acquired this company and it is still great

[stoic quarry]

I see a lot of email security products flaunting their AI integration now. I'm not too sure how well that's going to go but if the spam has a visible reduction that's always a win

[sinful moon]

They basically invented the API driven anti-phishing model back in 2015

so this just works with the Microsoft Defender ERP or whatever and checks behind it for what is False Positive or what Microsoft misses completely

[stoic quarry]

Sounds nice

[sinful moon]

Yeah this does have “AI features” but mostly it just shows you its reasoning in the natural text recognition for why something was flagged as possible credential stealing and etc

[stoic quarry]

It's nice when 'AI Driven' isn't their main selling point

[sinful moon]

also unlike our old solution…. this shows us headers!!!

[stoic quarry]

But ofc that's where a lot of money is atm

[stoic quarry]

Woah, maybe I'll start requesting it

I do love seeing some headers

[wooden totem]

That's cool and all but I feel like people knowing that "ai is checking for them" will let their guard down

[stoic quarry]

Outside of just checking the .eml myself

[sinful moon]

Yeah there are times when I still need to download and check in PhishTool for better formatting, but most of the time, the built in stuff is fine… but also I mean it least us download the email natively as well, also a new feature to us

vs getting into their account via OWA or whatever and saving the email or headers ourselves

[stoic quarry]

Oh my lord

[sinful moon]

Haha indeed

[rapid merlin]

Hell o

[stoic quarry]

"Hey this is Silas, yeah real quick what's your password so I can check that email? Haha k thx bye"

[stoic quarry]

Ominous

Hello

[sinful moon]

And absolutely, but ultimately this has helped literally by an order of magnitude as I mentioned

[stoic quarry]

If it works, it works

[sinful moon]

30 phishing tickets every two weeks has become 3 tickets at times

[stoic quarry]

That's a great selling point. We have quite a few clients so the phishing/spam is like... 33% of tickets some days

If some big campaign comes in

[sinful moon]

Sounds about right, and yeah as the sole infosec person I just accidentally made phishing my job, so it’s a huge relief to me

[stoic quarry]

Need a Gone Phishing hat then

[sinful moon]

lol ugh

[dreamy bridge]

Yo

[stoic quarry]

Ello ello

[dreamy bridge]

I am on Thm

[mellow gull]

Greets

[sinful moon]

It was really annoying when they’d report our simulated phishing campaigns to us and not use the buttons we gave the to do so

[dreamy bridge]

at walking an application

[sinful moon]

we’ve um, largely stopped doing that

[stoic quarry]

You're preaching to the choir lol. At the moment the phishing simulation is getting picked up by the brand new email security some of the clients have. It's a pain.

[stoic quarry]

Good luck

[slow cloud]

if you have a question about the room you should try out #room-help

[sinful moon]

hah, at least our solution was smart enough to know it’s simuated phishing via the same headers I check and just knew what’s up, with some rare exceptions

[stoic quarry]

I gotta fix that, huh

[sinful moon]

but lol it easily got to the point I could spot them without even looking at headers. I still always checked to be sure though

[stoic quarry]

Same, depending on the service you use for the simulated emails, some of them stand out so easily once you're used to it

[sinful moon]

our solution always had the tracking pixel at bottom left, blocked by our email settings

[stoic quarry]

Nice

[sinful moon]

Mhmm it was just for the “Email was Opened” tracking for our campaigns

although it was always ouch to see the users who checked every box and fell for the fake phishing

[stoic quarry]

We've had issues with links being 'clicked' by the security solutions for ages. Might ask if I can have a shot at it and just check for the very obvious "This is a simulated email" header to add as an exception

[sinful moon]

Oh that’s wild, yeah our solution as soon as it saw the headers for this knew it was simulated phishing and didn’t even bother, even when Microsoft flagged it

[stoic quarry]

Whoever set it up just didn't configure it I reckon

And no one has bothered to do it. Might step up and suggest I give it a shot, should be easy enough

[sinful moon]

at least for Checkpoint/Avanan it was just working natively, but fair we did have to do some fiddling to ensure this solution always overrode Microsoft

[stoic quarry]

That's part of the fun ig

[sinful moon]

Just have to have the Mail Transport rules in the right order

Yeah Microsoft giveth and it taketh away, pain in the butt to deal with overriding what they have to say

I do not envy anyone who just uses native MS Defender for their email

[stoic quarry]

It's... fine?

I guess

[sinful moon]

lol ouch

[stoic quarry]

But yeah just defender isn't enough imo

[sinful moon]

I just see how often our system slaps Microsoft’s hands and says no this is a False Positive, or the opposite, that it’s funny

[stoic quarry]

Sorry I didn't mean for that to come off as rude 😅 I was just thinking about the clients that only use defender

[sinful moon]

Nah you’re more than fine lol

I love complaining about MSP level tech lol

[wooden totem]

how are there so many phishing emails

[sinful moon]

Because of “About Us” sections on business websites and more

[stoic quarry]

Once I get everyone onto the same email security provider... And onto exchange, I'll feel like I can make a start

[stoic quarry]

Phishing kits are easy to buy, and once you compromise one account you can jump from there and keep going

I guess

[sinful moon]

Yeah gotta get that consistant stack or else it’s a bit of a nightmare

and yep that too

[rapid merlin]

Hello all

[stoic quarry]

Ello 👋

[sinful moon]

lol I loved that Twitter post over the weekend complaining about Evilginx

[rapid merlin]

I'm looking to grab a duds ip can anyone help?

[stoic quarry]

Nope

[stoic quarry]

What was the post lol. Evilginx is great!

[sinful moon]

hilarious

[south flicker]

Yo what's up guys

[stoic quarry]

Wait till ol' Tom finds out about metasploit

[sinful moon]

lol indeed

[rapid merlin]

Any good hacking tools?

[mellow gull]

Hahahahaha this is hilarious

[sinful moon]

I’ve seen some parody posts where people say the same to joke about ROT-26 libraries

[stoic quarry]

We ain't helping you 'grab a dude's IP' lol

[rapid merlin]

Fine

[sick lance]

That would be illegal.

And against our community rules

[south flicker]

What if that dude bullied my sister to the point she comited suicide? I just need you to show me how

[rapid merlin]

Oh

[sick lance]

Can we ping mods, instead of interacting please. 🙂

[sick lance]

The police would be your first port of call.

[sinful moon]

Was tempted as heck to say the same, thanks

[south flicker]

Yea good point but jail isnt enough i judge them myself

[sick lance]

Then you're doing illegal stuff.

Two wrongs don't make it right. 🙂

[sinful moon]

But two rights do make a left

[mellow gull]

A surprising number of people misunderstand what exactly GitHub is

Evilginx though, love the name, such a fun convention like evil-winrm and the other cute ones

[sick lance]

That would be three.

[south flicker]

Ok thanks for even responding to me bye guys

[sick lance]

2 rights would be 180°

[sinful moon]

shh I was close enough Scrubz lol

it’s like 4am :p

[mellow gull]

Two rights make a U

[stoic quarry]

It's like that wee tiktok trend where everyone did a 360, not a 180

Really ground my gears I tell you what

[sinful moon]

I love those posts about “just give me the download, I can’t be asked to figure out how to compile”… when there’s the Releases section right there

They get like awfully pissed, it’s funny

[mellow gull]

People losing their minds over having to enter more than one command into the terminal to make a thing happen

[stoic quarry]

"I just want a solution I don't want to do any work" type beat

[atomic atlas]

can you please tell me why I’m connected to openvpn but I can’t access machines ?

[mellow gull]

What do you mean it's not all sudo apt get?

[wooden totem]

it was sudo apt get all along

[sinful moon]

Can you ping 10.10.10.10? If not please consult #site-support

[atomic atlas]

yes I can

[mellow gull]

Then youre connected to THM

[sick lance]

What are you having issues with?

[atomic atlas]

I’m connected but when I’m trying to start a machine it wont and when I click on Access machines I’m disconnected

[sick lance]

Access machine page is broken for some users.

Not all machine boot up a split screen

[wooden totem]

is there specifics to "some users"

[mellow gull]

If you're uncertain whether or not a machine is loaded you can check the top of the room page you tried to activate it in to see if there's a machine IP.

[sick lance]

User A might see a connection successful, User B might.

C not
D not
E yes
D nor

[wooden totem]

yeah but like why

[mellow gull]

Oh Broadcom strikes again

[sick lance]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[atomic atlas]

ok thanks I’m connected!!

[sick lance]

You need to make an account on broadcom

[sinful moon]

Yes it’s as Gaww says and Broadcom is the new owners of VMware

[mellow gull]

Yes, you'll need to set up credentials on Broadcom to access VMWare as far as I know

[sinful moon]

yes as Scrubz says

or both rather lol

[mellow gull]

Unfortunately not

[sinful moon]

Yep no worries

we wish it wasn’t the case but it is lol

[mellow gull]

I've never had more trouble with any web interface than I've had with broadcom

[sinful moon]

My VMware ESXi/vSphere server is now a Proxmox server thanks to their changes

[sick lance]

Fun fact.

Old installers for VMware pro can be upgraded to the latest VMware

[mellow gull]

https://tenor.com/view/anakin-skywalker-i-hate-them-star-wars-no-nope-gif-12872946

[cerulean aurora]

im looking for a php file upload code

[sick lance]

Can you elaborate?

What ya doing?

[cerulean aurora]

web pentest

[sick lance]

Like..

Where?

Can't just ask for PHP file upload code and not give us what you're attacking

[cerulean aurora]

on a website which im workin on

[sick lance]

Is this work?

[sinful moon]

(plus THM actually teaches you about this)

[slow cloud]

vmware is stupppiddd

the best is virtualboxxx

[sinful moon]

gross lol

[cerulean aurora]

vmware

i use

[sinful moon]

bad take even after Broadcom, Oracle is objectively worse, but it’s sad both are now in the pits

[sick lance]

Oh boy.

You'd think Oracle would take advantage of that....

Instead of going the other way.

[mellow gull]

Race to the bottom

[sinful moon]

They couldn’t if their life depended on it, especially experiencing their actual professional grade software in line of business

[mellow gull]

Is there a good alternative to them by the way?

[sinful moon]

to either you mean?

[mellow gull]

Or is it a choice between two piles of garbage

Yeah for hypervisor

[sinful moon]

qemu/kvm all the way

aka Proxmox or virt-manager or UTM on macOS/iOS

so many interfaces for this same tech stack

either emulation or full virtualization

[mellow gull]

I'll look into it. All my stuff is written using VB as primary hypervisor but if Qemu is more approachable I'll switch over

[rugged kayak]

ive sent great guide for setting up qemu somewhere here

[sinful moon]

yeah it’s great as long as it’s Win XP and up basically

[stoic quarry]

I've been converted to proxmox tonight, big ups

[grizzled wing]

i have interupted sleep

[mellow gull]

I assume it can do custom internalized networks and blah blah all the fun stuff for lab setup

[sinful moon]

just need the virtio drivers for Windows from Red Hat basically

[rugged kayak]

check this @mellow gull

[wooden totem]

Try not thinking

[grizzled wing]

🎉 Gaww for being blue

[sinful moon]

mhmm you can with all, with varying levels of difficulty

[grizzled wing]

hmm, tried

[wooden totem]

Well if you tried you failed

[sinful moon]

Proxmox will be easiest, but some existing level of qemu/kvm basics and Linux networking helps tons

[wooden totem]

Gotta watch the tv that is your brain

[mellow gull]

Thanks, will bookmark for later. I'll finish my current track with VB then do some conversion for Qemu alternatives when I switch over in the future.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @rugged kayak (current: #325 - 18)

[sinful moon]

If you’re on Linux dekstop virt-manager is the easiest way to get started

[slow cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/vmware-virtualbox-vs-gif-23531880

[sinful moon]

no

[exotic vector]

vbox my beloved

[sinful moon]

I can count on 0 hands how many times I’ve been asked to use Virtualbox professionally

[mellow gull]

It'll probably be windows OS for bare metal main host just for ease of use

[dark frost]

Big pigeon

[sinful moon]

compared to administrating 11 VMware ESXi servers for my job

[exotic vector]

pimgeon!!!!

[rugged kayak]

but one quick not if you are on laptop you will not be able to setup bridge network

[mellow gull]

Really? Any reason why?

[sinful moon]

Had to edit because one was a vSphere cluster lol

I would not recommend anyone get deep into VMware now, but it’s still much more valuable knowledge. but for homelab, go qemu/kvm based solutions all day

[mellow gull]

Is the WNA on a laptop inherently different from one on a - ahhh it's wireless in general

[dark frost]

Proxmox is good?

[sinful moon]

Yes I run it on an enterprise grade server after migrating from ESXi

we even saw a performance increase on the VMs

[mellow gull]

Well there are very few reasons to use bridged for most of my use cases anyways so it's not a big deal.

[dark frost]

I am working with some student in IT infrastructure , to build A VDI cloud provider 🙂 we been thinking on using ESXI , or proxmox

[sinful moon]

If it’s for education especially, you can’t beat free with Proxmox

ESXi’s free licenses are very much jumping through hoops and being limited on how many vCPUs and other resources you can assign, if the free version even still exists

[slow cloud]

i think proxmox good

[dark frost]

Free don't exist anymore

[sinful moon]

yeah not suprised

The Broadcom deal was a disaster

[mellow gull]

If you want to post embedded links you need to verify.

[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

Jan 15, 2025, 9:25 AM

[mellow gull]

You obviously did not.

[sinful moon]

Or else you’d have a pretty color like us

[rugged kayak]

/ verify with discord token from site

but do it in bot commands not to leak token here

[dark frost]

Yeah i guess we will stick to implement proxmox , as Vmware ESXI can cost up to 500$ with all the extra licence needed

[sinful moon]

Mhmm, if you asked me two to three years ago I would have been all about ESXi and told you how to get cheaper licenses than that, but no they burned both business and homelab users and everyone is moving on. Proxmox and similar are the way foward

[mellow gull]

That's not verification.

Please read the link we posted.

#bot-commands

[dark frost]

Thanks 🙏

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #34 - 267)

[sinful moon]

I was paying $200 a year for VMware User Group Advantage, but nope, Broadcom decided you had to get one of two VMware Certs to even qualify for the licenses you’re paying for

[mellow gull]

Alternatively you can DM the bot the command.

[lime belfry]

Has anyone here applied for the YouTube content creator job ?

[mellow gull]

I'm sure people have.

[sinful moon]

Alright I’m headed to bed, goodnight everyone!

[sick lance]

Doesn't have to be in #bot-commands

[dark frost]

Good night Eliza

[mellow gull]

Why you pingin' me, I wasn't the one who said it had to be there

[sick lance]

Verified email?

[mellow gull]

Oh, this might be something I dealt with

Broadcom has two different login domains

Although I'm pretty sure that's the right one

[slow cloud]

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

hehe

[mellow gull]

Yeah it kinda sucks.
You can try using your email as your username, that ended up being what I had to do

[elder peak]

@chilly cobalt ^

[dreamy bridge]

thank you

[pliant onyx]

I wonder

What the best nmap flags are

For CTFs

(easy/medium CTFs)

[chilly veldt]

nmap -Pn -sV <ip> -min-rate 50000

that's my goto

[pliant onyx]

I currently do rustscan -a $tip --ulimit 15000 -- -sCV -A -O -oN rustscan_proper

I export tip

[chilly veldt]

I never use rustscan as it can break some machines

[pliant onyx]

interesting

Yet to happen to me

[sick lance]

Rustscan and Feroxbuster

[rugged kayak]

500000 is insane

[chilly veldt]

as min rate?

not really

[rugged kayak]

i dont go over 10000

500k packets per second can dos some machines

[chilly veldt]

ah, one 0 too many, my eyes are tired, I read it as 50k

[rugged kayak]

50k okay but 500k

[chilly veldt]

lmao

[mellow gull]

It's not a real machine, it doesn't have feelings

[sick lance]

Search VMware workstation pro and download it

[mellow gull]

I don't remember it perfectly. You should have a GUI where you can do a product search, look up what Scrubz just said

The page is... Wonky, but straightforward

[sick lance]

Get the personal one.

[rapid merlin]

Morning everyone, hope you're all doing well

[sick lance]

That one.

[elder peak]

Good morning 👋

[mellow gull]

Morn

[pliant onyx]

That's the two I use lmao

[knotty pendant]

2018 ahh video💔💔🕊️🕊️

[sick lance]

Yeah, the can know CTF boxes offline for a bit

This one

[pliant onyx]

This one

[sick lance]

I keep getting my brackets mixed up >:-|

[pliant onyx]

I used to do this too, idk how I rem them now

What's up with wpscan btw
Since when was No WPScan API Token give, as a result vulnerability data has not bee output. a thing

[sick lance]

If you can't sign in, you can't download it?

[mellow gull]

Yeah, that's how it is.

Once more, your username is your email

[sick lance]

Use email

[mellow gull]

+rep @sick lance

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3252)

[elder peak]

Search yt there’s vids showing how to sign up, sign in, download, and install.

[mellow gull]

No now that they're signed in they can just click the link Scrubz embedded

It'll go to the right page

[shut hawk]

Yepp

Such a pain compared to how you used to get it

I usually just use one of wayback machine and then have it auto update

[mellow gull]

Yes, the top one is fine.

Most recent release is fine

Knew it was coming

Yes

[elder peak]

Lol, you called it

Yup

[mellow gull]

Should delete that, just doxed your email

Yeah broadcom sucks

[slow cloud]

what a hassle is this

[shut hawk]

it is a right PITA

[stoic quarry]

Broadcom policy

[hot notch]

How do you organize your own "cheat sheet" of commands and wordlists for tools, do you have one long txt with everything, or is it divided into tools/technologies/targets? Im trying to get a bit more oranized

[mellow gull]

Look forward to it doing weird things to your network interface configuration when you set up vmnet too

[pliant onyx]

Ok this bricks CTF is testing me

[shut hawk]

One cheatsheet per tool

[wooden totem]

bread is so glutenous

[mellow gull]

Everyone's gonna give you a different answer. I break things down into the different phases of the cyber kill chain like recon, scanning, enumeration, post-exploitation, whatever, and have subfolders, resources, and cheat sheets/guides for different tools as they relate to those parts of the process.

[pliant onyx]

There's also gluten-free bread

Unless it isn't sold near you

You implying the general reader

[mellow gull]

What do you mean. Like, other hypervisors?

[knotty pendant]

🕊️🕊️

Did i kill chat 🥺🥺

[mellow gull]

Oracle/VirtualBox, Qemu, Hyper-V... There's a couple others.

Apparently people here really like Qemu

[rapid merlin]

my preference is KVM

[slow cloud]

virtualbox

[wooden totem]

is gluten free bread still unhealthy

[elder peak]

Carbs

[rapid merlin]

I used Broadcom to install the VMware and the VM won’t even run on that computer

[mellow gull]

I use VirtualBox at the moment

It's reliable enough

[pliant onyx]

No one food is objectively healthy or unhealthy

[mellow gull]

And the UI scares me less than VMWares' does

[stoic quarry]

I think VirtualBox has a lot of documentation and chatter online

[slow cloud]

install guest additions along with it

[stoic quarry]

But they all work

[pliant onyx]

Tell me: if you eat only 1 slice of bread throughout the day, will you die?

It depends on what you eat overall

Also, that annoying moment when:

[rapid merlin]

Bread in general ain’t that good for you

[wooden totem]

let's say 1 loaf a day, is gluten free bread instead the same amount of "not ideal"

[mellow gull]

Using the workstation I have to search up complicated documents and necrod threads to accomplish even remotely useful tasks

[pliant onyx]

Ok chyatt I dislike that I overcomplicate solving CTFs and the answer is usually something much simpler

[mellow gull]

On VirtualBox it kinda just works, has been my experience so far

[pliant onyx]

Any tips

[slow cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/theboys-perfect-gif-23821319

click on new you can create a machine

[stoic quarry]

Make sure you download an image first

Or iso

Lol

[slow cloud]

yeah good one

[wooden totem]

do more ctf to see whats common thinking

[pliant onyx]

Fair

[elder peak]

Read some docs or watch a yt video.

[mellow gull]

yeah iso setup is pretty easy

big tip though

[slow cloud]

download virtualbox guest additions @chilly cobalt

[mellow gull]

When you install an ISO, make sure the original extracted folder is somewhere where you won't delete it, like in Downloads

VirtualBox pulls from that folder for its image and it won't work if you get rid of it/move it later

[wooden totem]

all my downloads get deleted every month

[stoic quarry]

Sounds like you've been burned before

[wooden totem]

more like docs

[knotty pendant]

[pliant onyx]

Also chat, how to venv in kali

Coz I'm annoyed of reading error: externally-managed-environment every time

[stoic quarry]

So python?

[mellow gull]

No experience with venv, sorry

[stoic quarry]

python -m venv should work

[mellow gull]

Depends on the machine

What VM are you wanting to set up?

That

doesn't matter

For VMs only virtual memory/ram matters
What VM are you trying to run

Like

[stoic quarry]

Give it a path too

[mellow gull]

Kali?
A linux distro?>

A windows virtualization?

[stoic quarry]

Do you have the windows image?

It will

[mellow gull]

It will in the next step

Also if you only have 8GB of RAM you're gonna have... issues in the long term.

[stoic quarry]

You need an iso/image for it to create the vm

[mellow gull]

That's what VMs are for, dawg

[slow cloud]

yeah just whatever

put a picture of ur dog

a cat

[stoic quarry]

Image ≠ picture btw

Or it does lol, put your dog

[mellow gull]

Maybe it does, I dunno

Never tried changing the picture on my VM displays

could be funny

[stoic quarry]

Load up dog right now!!!

[slow cloud]

maybe a picture of windows could also work

[mellow gull]

Anyways yes, when we say "image"

We don't mean like a picture

"image" is essentially a copy of a OS

[stoic quarry]

I might be wrong but I swear virtualbox pulls a windows logo anyway

[mellow gull]

Sometimes

Not all of my windows iso's got one

[slow cloud]

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html

you need to create your hard drive

[mellow gull]

You create the hard drive

or you install an image

VirtualBox has a couple "default devices"

[stoic quarry]

Make sure you have enough space on your host / normal machine too

Just hit start

[mellow gull]

128mb

That's not gonna run

[stoic quarry]

Then install windows

Oh good catch lol

[slow cloud]

128mb video memory doesnt work?

[mellow gull]

No???

For a windows VM?

No?

[slow cloud]

oh

goooogle is your best friend

[slow cloud]

i didnt know that

[elder peak]

Settings

[mellow gull]

Ehh...

You know what it might be worth a shot, 2.73gb (weird number) base memory might be okay

[slow cloud]

but why wont 128mb not work? i have 105 on a windows machine

[static saddle]

Won't it would be better to send a best YouTube video were he/she can understand how to created windows vm

[slow cloud]

yeah maybe

[mellow gull]

They can do that of their own accord whenever they want, but they're asking here

[slow cloud]

but doing a little research yourself is also good

[mellow gull]

This isn't a Yu-Gi-Oh shadow match, they can walk away whenever

[pliant onyx]

But their pride...

[mellow gull]

I am curious to see if this boots though

[pliant onyx]

Their Saiyan pride...

[static saddle]

I am pretty sure that it won't matter if it's 128 mb

[mellow gull]

Video memory might be okay if the virtual memory is sufficient

2.8gb is...
Enough, maybe

I can run really basic W10 machines with 502mb if I'm not making them do anything

Sure yeah man give it a shot

Worst case is it doesn't work

VMs are made to be annihilated