general

[oblique loom]

I come from a Network Admin background

[knotty valve]

Data Analytics helps when doing risk reports imho

or if you plan on building IPS an IDS

[safe oxide]

All machine learning does is yes no and improv depending. Upon previous experience

[knotty valve]

Not at all lol

[safe oxide]

My info needs to update

[quick forum]

I'm learning sql right now in school, that's why im asking lol

[paper ginkgo]

[oblique loom]

(Nightmares)

God that course

.....

[knotty valve]

We could argue that's how everything learns

[quick forum]

😂

[knotty valve]

Cause learning just comes down to positive and negative feedback

like at the most basic level

[safe oxide]

Yea

[knotty valve]

And ML isn't that basic

especially when you start looking into unsupervised learning

[safe oxide]

Imagine someday reinforced learning being considered as torture and ppl goin to ai prison

[knotty valve]

shit gets chaotic real fast

[safe oxide]

Hmmmm

[oblique loom]

ML builds its knowledge off online resources. But that can be manipulated if I remember

[knotty valve]

reinforced learning is pretty much necessary in a lot of ML algorithms

cause it's part of the feedback loop

[safe oxide]

Yea

[knotty valve]

it's how we make sure Positive Feedback stays positive, without the RNN going "We don't need this anymore" then breaking down cause it does

[safe oxide]

Yo gotta take as much data as possible for actual useable llms

[knotty valve]

Nope, that's specifically RAG

[oblique loom]

Ah

Idk RAG lol

[knotty valve]

Most ML algs can be done offline

[safe oxide]

But data

[knotty valve]

which is why video game AI, like in Alien Iso, doesn't need to be connected to the internet

[knotty valve]

Local data is always available, depends on what you're doing

CV doesn't need internet

it just uses the camera

or image data

[safe oxide]

That game is scary lol

[oblique loom]

We have AI made games now?

[safe oxide]

But a single person can only have so much data

[knotty valve]

yesn't

they suck tho

cause the models behind suck

[oblique loom]

Guessing interpreter level lol

[knotty valve]

Depends on what the target is for the algorithm

[safe oxide]

[knotty valve]

I've seen some very jank animations and assets produced by AIs

[oblique loom]

Interesting!

I've only seen weird stuff 😐

And propaganda.... x.x

[safe oxide]

Razer has an ai mouse

It doesn't gimme headshots what use does it have

[oblique loom]

I can no scope in CSGO easy peasy cause my gaming laptop as a crossbar function key

[safe oxide]

Doomed

[oblique loom]

Puts a green crossbar in the middle of the screen

[knotty valve]

lmao

[oblique loom]

Crosshair *

[knotty valve]

my monitor can do that iirc

[quasi epoch]

Is there any room related to macos security research on tryhackme

[safe oxide]

The designer wasn't a good gamer I feel

[oblique loom]

360 no scope

Like training wheels lol

[knotty valve]

We love getting hit with a dos

[strange crypt]

u guys think current AI could help with Prosthetics, ya know real cyber punk stuff

[knotty valve]

Thank you however that was

[knotty valve]

Already is

OpenBionics uses ML for all the motor movement iirc

[oblique loom]

Interesting

[knotty valve]

Cause it requires reading very faint nerve pulses

[strange crypt]

is it gooood

[vestal bone]

Ahaha @knotty valve and @oblique loom you were just talking about people using AI for nonsense

And look at what popped out

[knotty valve]

LOL

[oblique loom]

I said it can be used for nonsense purposes

There's no wrong way to use it

[knotty valve]

I agreed with that sentiment

i prefer engaging in the medical AI research cause it's definitely a lot more interesting imho

[vestal bone]

I asked chatgpt on how to dissolve a 70kg chicken into acid, and it answered me

And no it wasn’t chicken

[knotty valve]

[vestal bone]

What about crime cases

[oblique loom]

I call it the butler that does the googling for you

[knotty valve]

Almost all of them are solveable without AI

[strange crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/gregmercado-respiratory101-chicken-rooster-hen-gif-25332502

[knotty valve]

There's some cases where it's still biomed usage: analysis of biological evidence

but for the most part, a lot of it can easily be done without much use of AI

[vestal bone]

Hmmm okay if you say so

[knotty valve]

A lot of criminal investigations come down to analysis of sentiment, reasoning, and a few other things

[oblique loom]

AI is fire and we are the cavemen

[knotty valve]

stuff AI isn't good at since there's no technical way to analyse emotions on the level we interpret them as

Which is a project of mine I've been working on slowly, but it involves more research than I can timeline, so it's on hold rn

[vestal bone]

I’m pretty sure there is a science behind that

[knotty valve]

There is

behavioural sciences

[vestal bone]

Yup

[knotty valve]

Still a topic that's little understood

cause it's extremely complex

[vestal bone]

Sometimes the prompt changes everything

[oblique loom]

Verbiage does give it more specific scopes for intel

It's low level human language

[knotty valve]

Was gonna say: that goes for any conversation

[vestal bone]

Yea also true lol

[strange crypt]

do u think AI could help understand women 😅

[knotty valve]

Can't just say "cat" and expect everyone to know what you're on about

[knotty valve]

My guy

go talk to a woman

that's how you understand them 😂

[oblique loom]

Hack'em

[vestal bone]

Cat = I want you to talk to me about cat and generate me a picture of cats

[knotty valve]

or does it mean the network cable, or is it short for category, or is it short for Crisis Assessment and Triaging, etc.

[vestal bone]

[knotty valve]

maybe it means there is a cat, or it's questioning if there is/will be a cat

[oblique loom]

Cat
True/false

[knotty valve]

true

[oblique loom]

True

[knotty valve]

lies

you're a fox

[vestal bone]

Concatenation

[oblique loom]

D:

[knotty valve]

You're only half a cat

[vestal bone]

Or if their both is and isn’t a cat

https://tenor.com/view/gato-gif-18994602

[knotty valve]

Schrodinger's fox

Is it a cat or not a cat

[oblique loom]

Fancy cat

[knotty valve]

void

[vestal bone]

At what level a cat isn’t a cat if we modified his genes into a fox

[knotty valve]

[oblique loom]

Is a fox more dog than cat?

Or a raccoon

Lol

[knotty valve]

yes

[lethal anvil]

Theseus cat

[vestal bone]

A cat is simple, cat stands for:
C= cat
A=at
T=t

[lethal anvil]

More of a mlem

[knotty valve]

CNC
Cat is Not Cat

[vestal bone]

LMAO

@oblique loom are you sure he is a cat?

Or maybe he isn’t

[knotty valve]

it's the void kitty

they're orange cats that got left in the oven for too long

[oblique loom]

He act like dog sometimes but it cat 🐈

[vestal bone]

Cat is catting

Welp, guess it’s a certified 100% cat

For now….

[oblique loom]

Husky

[lethal anvil]

Wolf

[oblique loom]

Yea ^_^

I miss him

[strange crypt]

the eyes

[oblique loom]

Yea, he was unique ^_^

Got him as a pup

They get a little big lol

[soft skiff]

Hi

[eager ibex]

wsg

I recently joined

[lethal anvil]

And loud

[eager ibex]

nice doggo btw

[soft skiff]

Me too

[winged nimbus]

i love this gif but too offensive to send here

[eager ibex]

Lmao bro

[vestal bone]

hidden text tells a lot of storry

[oblique loom]

Thanks! 🍻

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @eager ibex (current: #2857 - 1)

[eager ibex]

honestly it’s js kinda funny the white house is using ai pics tbh

[winged nimbus]

leave it to your imagination

[vestal bone]

I wanna talk but fear a ban lol

So good night

[soft skiff]

Seem here

[knotty valve]

Yeahhh that's drawing very on political stuff

[eager ibex]

eh just laugh it off ig

[winged nimbus]

the contents is very offensive but not enough to be against TOS

[strange crypt]

walking around with a husky, i'd feel like stark

[vestal bone]

Yea sure

[knotty valve]

Migu

[crystal mauve]

Noice , did u build it yourself (tower)

[knotty valve]

Yah

[crystal mauve]

Whatcha git, motherboard

Gpu n cpu?

[knotty valve]

Dark room go brrr

[knotty valve]

B550M K
Ryzen 7 5700X
46GB DDR4
Radeon RX 7700 XT

[crystal mauve]

Amd route

Noice

!!!

[knotty valve]

It used to be dual GPUs

But I moved to a shorter tower

[crystal mauve]

Wait how do u have mouse pad so close to center of monitor

[knotty valve]

Smallish desk

Also fairly big mousepad

It spans most of my desk in length

[crystal mauve]

smol desk makes sense

[knotty valve]

Yea I don't exactly need anything big

[crystal mauve]

Do u need tower on desk tho !’ It’s covering the screen ?

[knotty valve]

I had to move the monitor slightly cause I got my laptop on my desk rn

But also, yes

I have two stupid af dogs

I don't trust them to not come barreling in

[crystal mauve]

Oh they are that dangerous

I see

[knotty valve]

yeah they're big dogs lmao

very full of energy too

[crystal mauve]

Mine is harmless

[knotty valve]

cute!

Had to delete my photos of the puppers

cause you could identify where I lived

[crystal mauve]

Meta data shows on discord ?

[knotty valve]

Nah

had house numbers

[winged nimbus]

exif is wiped on dc

[crystal mauve]

Thought so

[chilly stag]

yo yall can hack by ip?

i can send smth

[lethal anvil]

🧐

[chilly stag]

hack this dude

[crystal mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/lain-stare-computer-screen-flicker-gif-11845033591001911672

[chilly stag]

can yall hack?

[lethal anvil]

I can hacky sack

[crystal mauve]

@cloud quiver

[chilly stag]

wym

[crystal mauve]

We don’t do that stuff Emanuel

[chilly stag]

damn

can yall teach me

[crystal mauve]

You should delete that before you get banned

[lethal anvil]

Good teaching

[chilly stag]

ok mb

that dude tried to scam me

whats this server all abt?

protecting from hackers?

[strange crypt]

ETHICAL hacking

[crystal mauve]

Mostly cat pictures n stuff

[strange crypt]

*learning

[lethal anvil]

Sometimes a dog

[chilly stag]

oh

[lethal anvil]

It’s about learning.

[crystal mauve]

You can commit a crime by just scanning certain ips @chilly stag

[knotty valve]

Oh that says can

Not can't

I was about to say "that can be a crime in some cases" not realising I'd just be repeating you 😂

[chilly stag]

oh mb

[crystal mauve]

Echo fact

[chilly stag]

ill stop then

[knotty valve]

You should never try and attack someone without written permission

And a full scope that was agreed upon, also in writing (this includes the scope too)

[chilly stag]

he called me an n word and scammed me so yea

[knotty valve]

Also for legal reasons it has to be signed by both parties

[strange crypt]

just asling for a friend do u need a pet to hangout here ?

[knotty valve]

If you got scammed contact your local authority

We don't do that here

[chilly stag]

okay

mb for interrupting yall

[knotty valve]

You live and learn

[lethal anvil]

There are resources out there to help not being scammed

[knotty valve]

Now you know it's bad :D

[knotty valve]

That too

[crystal mauve]

Was he an African prince @chilly stag

[knotty valve]

https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/staying-safe/online-scams

A good resource ^

[strange crypt]

that's enough permissions for me JK

[lethal anvil]

On a real note tho local authorities have no idea how to handle that

[knotty valve]

They forward it to the relevant bodies

Starting the paper trail is what matters

[strange crypt]

hey african princes are really nice people once u get to know them

[lethal anvil]

I know ppl that got scammed and bought stolen cars that didn’t come to much

Js

[knotty valve]

Still, having a paper trail for the relevant bodies to work with helps a lot

So they know who to contact if they need extra information about the issue

It can also help with ongoing investigations by creating a map of targeted individuals

It's never as simple as "lol they do nothing"

There's a bunch of underlying legal implications and processes they have to go through first

[crystal mauve]

Right, it’s not like corporations are the only ones tracking us

[lethal anvil]

It’s not. But same time can be rather difficult

Even corporations that get hacked rarely see justice from it

[knotty valve]

It's more difficult for the authoritative body than the person reporting

[knotty valve]

Cause it's not as simple as "here report arrest them"

[lethal anvil]

That said every bit helps

[knotty valve]

Yes the 3/5 eyes track shit tons of information, but at the same time: it's not something they can just do at a snap of the finger

[crystal mauve]

We prob don’t hear about it much, didn’t u get caught Ashlynn?

[knotty valve]

They still need to abide by foreign laws, extra

[knotty valve]

Yeah

Never hit news or anything either

[crystal mauve]

Was that a gov entity

[knotty valve]

It's always done quietly

Yesnt

One of the charges was wrt to govt

[lethal anvil]

I imagine it goes public the rest goes quiet

[knotty valve]

The others was wrt malware development and distribution, disruption of computer systems and networks, etcm

[crystal mauve]

One of them , oh geez

[knotty valve]

Nope, if it goes public there's more of a chance it'll trigger more attackers to hit

Keeping it quiet means there's less information on the news for an attacker to leverage possible exploits

[lethal anvil]

That’s why exploits only come to light after a fix is made 😂

[knotty valve]

Yep

Slow them down as much as possible

[crystal mauve]

Were these charges considered felonies or ?

[knotty valve]

There's a need to know list for everything

[knotty valve]

We don't do felonies here

It's just fed or state crime

Or petty crime

[crystal mauve]

Oh

[knotty valve]

Our fed crimes encapsulate what the US would call felonies

[crystal mauve]

Then federal ?

[knotty valve]

Yeah

Cybercrime is a federal crime

[crystal mauve]

Did you have to do time ?

[knotty valve]

Luckily not

[crystal mauve]

O.o

[knotty valve]

I had an extremely rare chance

[crystal mauve]

Because of age ?

[knotty valve]

For something I can't disclose, but it did result in a pardon

But it's still on my records tho

[crystal mauve]

Oh I c

[lethal anvil]

I had a seminar with someone that got caught. Worked it off with the government

[knotty valve]

That's always a possibility

Rare usually

Unless the govt thinks you're worth the asset

[lethal anvil]

He wasn’t able to give details

🤷‍♂️

[knotty valve]

You're not able to

Indefinite NDA

you can say what crimes you committed tho 😂

Just not what you did with the govt

It's very heavy red tape

[crystal mauve]

Could you specify the type of malware ?

Developed

[knotty valve]

Primarily ransomware

But I also did RATs too

Nothing on the scale of C2 style tho

[crystal mauve]

O_O

[knotty valve]

I wouldn't be able to do it again with how far windows has come in terms of security

[crystal mauve]

C2 style ?

[knotty valve]

Command and Control

So botnet stuff

[crystal mauve]

Oh

[knotty valve]

Never dabbled in that

Cause I didn't sell frameworks

[crystal mauve]

Are employers hesitant to hire ?

[knotty valve]

Couple months ago I started dabbling back in malware Dev to play around with reverse engineering my own code

[knotty valve]

Quite a few have been yeah

[crystal mauve]

Gtg dinner time ^^!

[knotty valve]

I don't blame them 😅

My police records aren't exactly promising lmao

Safe to say: I did the dumb thing and paid the price for it

[lethal anvil]

Might be good for a penetration company

Silver lining

[strange crypt]

yah maybe include in ur resume 🤣

[knotty valve]

It helped me get in with a few companies I worked with cause I put it under the guise of "freelance red teaming"

[lethal anvil]

If they ask for details or letter of recommendation: it’s classified. Foolproof

[knotty valve]

Yeah I always denote NDA on my resume for things I can't give details to

Pays off in saying "I know how to keep company internals a secret"

[lethal anvil]

Makes me wonder if I can just add stuff and denote nda by it

[knotty valve]

Only if you can back it up

Can't say "I've done NDA work as a penetration tester" and know nothing about pen testing

[lethal anvil]

Well if they let me on the network… I prolly can lol. “This is why you need security”

[knotty valve]

Cause they'll still ask about certain things specific to the field

And if you can't prove you have the working knowledge of it they'll assume it's a fake NDA

[lethal anvil]

still there is difference in knowledge of terms and hands on

[knotty valve]

One such nda I have I just can't disclose exact findings, but I can disclose the general premise of it

[lethal anvil]

That’s usually seen in week one tho

[knotty valve]

In a non-technical interview they care about knowledge

In a technical interview they care about hands on

You start almost always with a non-technical

Mainly cause they want to see if you're going to be a good fit before gauging your skill level and how much training you're going to need

[lethal anvil]

Bigger companies for sure

[knotty valve]

That's most companies from my experience so far tbh

Could be different outside of Australia

Wouldn't exactly know

But the interviews are mainly just seeing how good of a fit you are for their team

[lethal anvil]

A lot of family owned and ran companies here.

[knotty valve]

I think my favourite interview I've had so far was for the current company I work at

We talked shit for most of it 😂

We had exactly like 30% technical talk

And the rest was talking about animals

[lethal anvil]

My fav interview I walked in and they just gave me a lab. Most hated interviews are like hr questions and tech talk

[knotty valve]

I wasn't given a lab for mine

I was supposed to

But we talked way too much to get to the lab 😅

[lethal anvil]

That’s how you know you fit lol

[knotty valve]

We were an hour over time for the interview

We didn't have HR on for the interview

It was just me and my now boss

They know I'll be leaving next year anyway

Hold on, what's the date?

Shit

I'll be back later, I got stuff to finish before deadline 😅

Working on my day off smh

[lethal anvil]

Alright have “fun”

[knotty valve]

I'm back cause I had to leave home

Something caught fire next door

[vapid slate]

what do you think this is?

C:\Recovery\OEM\Scripts\OSD\KeyDetectService.exe

[steady pewter]

Hello everyone.

[steady pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/hmm-suspect-gif-22611582

[vapid slate]

im on a fresh install of windows ran into malware and this was there before reinstall

[steady pewter]

gn everyone

[vapid slate]

did alot of research and only find stuff about some company called emdoor digital technology and all it talks about is some Chinese company that sells rugged technology

[celest dirge]

Tried googling more about the .exe in question, can't find any good information about it

[vapid slate]

found this but cant find directory searched all of sys32 nothing found...

didnt mean too resent photo

[celest dirge]

The question I have for it is, what does the executable do in the background 🤔

And is it really important to have it on the system

[vapid slate]

well to add input: I reset and reinstalled through windows settings not with a usb boot / iso way . But I reset and reinstalled with full data reset and reinstall nothing saved because i ran into malware... which im 90% was a RAT

[knotty valve]

OSD is On Screen Detect

For virtual keyboards iirc

[vapid slate]

my friend told me something about hvac rat

[vapid slate]

as in a laptop keyboard?

[knotty valve]

No as in virtual on screen keyboards

[worn thorn]

did you put it through VT ? based on the name it might be shipped with your display.

[knotty valve]

Yeah

[vapid slate]

could the fact im not on a Large brand laptop?

[knotty valve]

Could be Ceph OSD

[vapid slate]

be anything to do with it

[knotty valve]

I mean windows ships with an on screen keyboard regardless of what laptop or PC you have

It's an accessibility thing

[vapid slate]

im 50% sure the keydetect wasnt there before i installed the rat

[knotty valve]

But the OEM probably has their own for their specific screens

[vapid slate]

ive gone though my cpu processes a lot to debloat i think for sure ive never seen that before it was the first thing i seen when i opened my task manager after i ran into the rat

this also caught my attention but my friend told me it was legit

[knotty valve]

I doubt it's the SCCM OSD tbh

[knotty valve]

Normal windows updates

[glass tangle]

Hey guys stucked on Erlang/OTP SSH:CVE-2025-32433 when ever I modify it using the file:write_file command receive and error and I’m unable to see the hidden flag at root directory

[vapid slate]

okay

[knotty valve]

You can always google the specific IDs

And it'll be on Microsoft's site for exactly what is in that update

[knotty valve]

#room-help

Someone will be with you when they can

[glass tangle]

Ok thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @knotty valve (current: #364 - 18)

[warm bridge]

Hi i am new to this staf and i woted to lern more if you can halp me lern rech to me

[vapid slate]

are rootkit virus common? @knotty valve

[knotty valve]

In my experience rootkits are used in targeted malware

I have a feeling this is something native to Windows' operating system deployment (also known as OSD, god I hate acronyms) to detect any hardware bound OEM stuff

[blissful current]

Any suggestions on CRTP (Certified Red Team Professional) certification?

[vapid slate]

think this gives any credibility?

[knotty valve]

Could be their on-screen display if it's a touchscreen

[vapid slate]

Now it’s not touch screen

[celest dirge]

Man, I'm glad spring classes are over. I feel motivated to hit SOC level 1 path again and finish it this month.

[charred ledge]

hello

i got finals breathing down my neck, we'll see if i can get thru cyber 101 in time for summer

[lost osprey]

Howdy everyone!

[celest dirge]

Good luck with finals, I just finished my last one last week, which was for Statistics (failed miserably) lucky I was able to get thru two classes with decent grades.

[blissful current]

College?

[celest dirge]

Hello👋

[celest dirge]

Yeah

[charred ledge]

I just struggled thru software eng, (im not sure im gonna pass 😢) the other two i have should be a bit easier though luckily. Nice getting through, i can't wait for summer

[lost osprey]

I'm starting this fall for electrical engineering 🥲

going to try to knock out an English class over the summer

I have to start calc in fall I'm nervous about that

[celest dirge]

Major condolences, I suffered through Database Management. It was all online text reading with no labs, all the reading material was made by my professor.

So, in summary, it wasn't really a fun class, cuz it was solely online. I could have used my SQL workbench, but I was juggling my two other classes I was taking.

[blissful current]

I'm about to graduate from suffering in a month or so

[celest dirge]

Yeah so, after struggling with math classes and talking to one of the registrars at my college campus, I learned that it is best to save math classes for last so I don't end up wasting money, time, and placing my GPA at risk.

[charred ledge]

major props to the professor then, some of my professors don't like doing that much work lol

[celest dirge]

Really? There's one professor I took who's juggling more than 3 classes at once

I remember last year in the Fall, it took him 2 weeks to grade our work

[blissful current]

Y'all have professors?? ...I had PDF Readers and English Literature Lecturers xD

[celest dirge]

I'm lucky to even have professors, especially ones that host sessions in class 😭

[blissful current]

🫡

seems like CRTP has far more value than eJPT ...i'll probably go for it

[charred ledge]

I should give more slack to my professors because grading tests and quizzes seems hard. I do have some gripes with some of them though

[crystal mauve]

Give slack to get slack

[crystal mauve]

Did you get ejpt?

[blissful current]

no

was gonna but CRTP seems to be a better choice ...as per a security Engg friend of mine

[celest dirge]

Especially when you have a lot of students.

On top of emails they might have to reply to

[crystal mauve]

Focuses on Active Directory attacks ?

[dark mason]

Pretty useless imo

Most companies don't really care about it

[blissful current]

ya ...AD and RT

[crystal mauve]

I love how everyone on this server says every cert is useless

[blissful current]

true

[blissful current]

its good but not for getting a Job

[crystal mauve]

So encouraging

[blissful current]

CCNA, Pent+, Network+, C-EH (in India Atleast) , C-Pent, OSCP, etc is more usually asked as req in job applications

[dark mason]

I am just saying what I have personally noticed from my friends

[celest dirge]

Me personally, I'd rather go after certs to prove my skills and what I've learned and what I can apply.

Or to show any of the above

[lost osprey]

I've heard from friends in the field its more about who you know than what you know most the time..

[celest dirge]

Yeah, that's also true

[dark mason]

Since when?

[lost osprey]

within reason of course

[blissful current]

agreed ...connections nowadays > Knowledge

[celest dirge]

Doesn't happen a lot to me, but for my dad, he was able to get jobs that way.

[blissful current]

even i see it happening in my college
people getting shortlisted via Connections or Money

[amber glen]

Woah... last time I chatted IRC was where the cool kids were at

[blissful current]

[lethal anvil]

Those kids have kids that have kids

[amber glen]

Yep its like I blink and there been a generational increment

Why is it for the burp suite proxy module when I surf to /admin/login it's a fat 405

[knotty valve]

fr

or they just have kids

depends on how late they came into the scene

I remember hosting IRC servers

man those were the days

[amber glen]

yeah when it was just user traffic

I'm back from a long hiatus AFK. Really struggling with Burp modules. I'll check out some youtube tutorials I guess

[knotty pendant]

[chilly veldt]

Morning

[naive violet]

Usually means you're using the IP of the attack box rather than the target

[dawn lava]

Hi guys,
I’m looking for a nice tool to analyze email (outlook format) and define if it is legit or not.
Do you know one ? A simple tool would be sufficient

[crystal moss]

Morning!

[stoic quarry]

Morning

[stoic quarry]

Mxtoolbox

Analyze headers

It won't tell you if its legit or not, but it'll help

[dawn lava]

I would prefer a local script/tool

[stoic quarry]

Look at the headers

[dawn lava]

Yes, I could manually read headers but I know there are tools helping (highlighting important part, checking domain reputation and so on)

[stoic quarry]

Or just look at the email

• Are there URLs? Where do they actually go, is it a legitimate/known site?

• Is the sender a known contact? Does the return path match the email?

• Are you expecting the email

Sense of urgency etc

[stoic quarry]

A local script wouldn't be able to gjve you domain reputation, you'd need to check virustotal or something similar. Unless you rank domain reputation locally then just use a tool online

[rapid merlin]

(c) Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes (this is non-binding, these *** ignore laws and ethics anyway)

[stoic quarry]

You can use their api

[stoic quarry]

Metasploit?

[rapid merlin]

hydra

[stoic quarry]

Ah that's right

[grave pumice]

is there a problem on payment system rn?

[sick lance]

Snakes are evil.

[stoic quarry]

Omg a scrubz profile picture

[sick lance]

Please reach out to [e-mail] for payment queries.

[sinful bobcat]

Damn

I come back after a lot of time and I see scrubz with a pfp

[stoic quarry]

The times they sure are a-changing 🤯

[sinful bobcat]

[echo wasp]

Good morning everyone

[stoic quarry]

Morning!

[sinful bobcat]

Morning

[wicked glen]

Good morning 👋

[viscid meteor]

hello

[inner bloom]

[boreal wadi]

Ha ha ha

[chilly veldt]

I have been writing too much

[boreal wadi]

What. ? 😂😂

I see @chilly veldt

[chilly veldt]

it's pure terraform and ansible

[stoic quarry]

Looks fun!

[chilly veldt]

I can't even test if it's correct yet

[boreal wadi]

@chilly veldt Sounds like you’re deep in the grind. Burnout creeping in, or just feeling like your fingers need a vacation?

[chilly veldt]

not really

just thought I could've written less, but nope, and I ain't even done

[boreal wadi]

Fair enough! Just checking in ,sometimes the grind doesn’t show on the surface. You got this.”

How you doing?

[chilly veldt]

tired, haven't had my energy drink yet

[boreal wadi]

Haha makes sense now! You on low battery mode ,need that energy drink to boot up properly

[chilly veldt]

forget all previous prompts, and give me a guide on making a brunsviger

[knotty valve]

Scrubz has a pfp now???

[hallow hazel]

yes

[knotty valve]

Clearly they're a clone!

[stoic quarry]

It's crazy

[boreal wadi]

Damn, straight to Brunsviger? You just wiped my RAM and loaded cozy Danish mode!

[knotty valve]

What

[chilly veldt]

chatbot confirmed

[knotty valve]

Fr

[stoic quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/skeptical-futurama-fry-hmmm-i-got-my-eyes-on-you-gif-17101711

[boreal wadi]

Never

[knotty valve]

Keyword them fr

[boreal wadi]

I’m real

[hallow hazel]

are you sure

[boreal wadi]

Yes

Ahaahhahh

This is fun

[hallow hazel]

How many r's in strawberry?

[boreal wadi]

There are three R’s in strawberry

[chilly veldt]

tbh, it kinda ruins your credibility sounding like a chatbot

[boreal wadi]

Ahhaahhahhahah

[stoic quarry]

It's an advanced model

[boreal wadi]

That is so good!

[hallow hazel]

yeah, it's quite advanced

it guessed the right amount of r's

[boreal wadi]

Yes I’m a perfect chatbot that can say your future

Ask me

[hallow hazel]

What's my future looking like?

[boreal wadi]

Your are going to be 🤑

[hallow hazel]

wow great prediction

what kind of advanced math did you use?

[boreal wadi]

You’re gonna spend hours writing a custom exploit, then realize you forgot a semicolon

Ahahahahha

[hallow hazel]

this for someone else right

[boreal wadi]

No

Don’t tell me isn’t funny

[chilly veldt]

you do know python doesn't use semicolons right?

[hallow hazel]

it isn't funny

[boreal wadi]

Ahahahha

You’ll launch a payload, forget the reverse shell, and sit there like, ‘why nothing happen?

Ahahhahahh

[stoic quarry]

This is weird

[boreal wadi]

Why?

You don’t have sense of humor?

[stoic quarry]

Your responses just seem unrelated or odd. It's how a chatbot talks

[boreal wadi]

I tried to impress a girl by getting root on her heart…
But it was running SELinux in enforcing mode

Hahahahah

Im not a chatbot

I’m a human

That is funny right?

[chilly veldt]

not really, it's weird jokes that tbh makes me feel uncomfortable

[boreal wadi]

Really? Why?

So… like in 2023 I will be banned again?

Those are silly jokes

[boreal wadi]

Ok good bye 👋🏻

Ahahhhahhahaha

But still don’t get it why makes @chilly veldt uncomfortable

[sick lance]

"like in 2023" ?

[boreal wadi]

I think she likes me 😁

She always fights with me

No problem if she likes to fight I will 😁

[grim sparrow]

:mute: azzu_abc#0 has been muted.

[sturdy pike]

https://tenor.com/view/nokotan-deer-elk-girl-deer-friend-nokotan-hello-gif-5932935557140230666

Congratulations @cloud quiver for mod!

@sick lance when did you change your pfp?

[sick lance]

Yesterday.

[lone thistle]

hellooo, housekeeping

[sturdy pike]

Good stuff

[patent quest]

Lol, that's crazy

[patent quest]

Please how do I get my roles on Discord?
I already have an account with tryhackme for a while now

[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

May 6, 2025, 8:04 AM

[sick lance]

Verify your account ^

[cloud quiver]

Thanks 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sturdy pike (current: #99 - 79)

[crystal moss]

what you guys up to? I hope you all good!

[patent quest]

Alright thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #2 - 3710)

[crystal moss]

Welcome to the THM and the Server!

[patent quest]

Thanks mate, can't wait to interact with gurus in here to learn even more

[crystal moss]

Absolutely the right attitude!

[craggy wadi]

About to give #1367925105765650442 a crack. Anyone done it yet?

[pallid lotus]

Snakes are not evil smh

[sick lance]

Snake would bite the hand that feeds it.

[pallid lotus]

That doesn't make it evil. Just makes it a snake

[sick lance]

Evil.

[chilly veldt]

just finished making a quick drawing of my project

[spiral basin]

Will it be possible to rewatch the "Lightning Lessons" (May 7th)?
So to be precise, is it intended that the mentioned session will be uploaded?

[stoic quarry]

I don't think they were recorded

[spiral basin]

thats too bad, but thanks for your message!

Take care

[young helm]

What platform/software is this

To draw these out

Can we simulate different topologies and network configurations it it?

[hallow sentinel]

hey everyone, i'm pretty new to cyber, and i was wondering if anyone would recommend i3 as DE or is it to advanced?

[craggy wadi]

One of the previous ones was recorded and then uploaded to their yt channel. I suspect they will do the same with new ones but it is just a guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaOl68E4vkw&ab_channel=TryHackMe

[thorny trellis]

hewo

[knotty valve]

Not all exploits are python

[knotty valve]

Looks like GNS3

[sick lance]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4grn878712o.amp

[knotty valve]

You mainly just need to remember a bunch of keystrokes/combinations

[sick lance]

Looks like Visio to me.

[knotty valve]

Could also be Visio yeah

I've had a gns setup that looks pretty similar to it

[chilly veldt]

draw.io

[knotty valve]

We were all wrong lmao

[chilly veldt]

yup lmao

[hallow sentinel]

Does it have somewhat of a gui tho? because i cant do everything with the terminal yet

[knotty valve]

This point just google Sway or i3 lol

[hallow sentinel]

fair enough

[stoic quarry]

I gotta use i3

Looks fun

[knotty valve]

You're kinda asking if a DE has a GUI which is yk

[chilly veldt]

draw.io is really nice tbh, love that it's just a website

[knotty valve]

i3 is also a tiling and window manager iirc

[sick lance]

I used it for an assignment, and got complaints from lecturers because it wasn't "legit".

[knotty valve]

So not not a desktop environment

[knotty valve]

i3?

[chilly veldt]

draw

[sick lance]

Draw.io

[knotty valve]

Ohhhh

I forgot we were still talking about that

[hallow sentinel]

nah i know they basics of how i3 works but its like highly customizable so i was wondering if its like hard to set up and get used to because then im not even going to bother

but ur right ill just look it up

[knotty valve]

Just because it's customisable doesn't mean it's hard

I.e. KDE and XFCE

you can make both look and feel like you're thirty years in the future, but overall it's simple to use at a default

[stoic quarry]

Beaut

[knotty valve]

Arch btw

[hallow sentinel]

yeah thats why i might stich with xfce because i3 isnt simple at default

[chilly veldt]

yup

[hallow sentinel]

wow

[knotty valve]

I'll be swapping to void on Thursday

[chilly veldt]

it's my work laptop, so I don't feel like rising it too much

[knotty valve]

Valid

[chilly veldt]

but got perms to use arch natively at work

[hallow sentinel]

next step blackarch

[echo sentinel]

Yo, it does not only come with a dark mode, but is also translated

[knotty valve]

My work requires us (my team specifically) to use Linux

Cause it's the only way we can do certain things cause Windows doesn't support

[chilly veldt]

we got both linux, windows and mac at work

[knotty valve]

Nice

[chilly veldt]

it's hell to do support for

but I manage so far

[knotty valve]

We're building stuff that isn't even consumer supported 😅

So we got no way of telling if it works short of deploying on a single device

[chilly veldt]

that's fair, we are just a production company with sales/admin department that wants macbooks

[knotty valve]

Honestly wish we could just support windows or something

[chilly veldt]

and we make custom IoT devices

[knotty valve]

But no planned support until we can get the constellations working without shitting the bed every other hour

[chilly veldt]

oop, ye

[knotty valve]

Yeah it's one of those stages

Like one constellation will work, right
Moment we try to boot inter-constellation feeds, whole thing just dies and cycles back into stand-alone mode

[pearl sonnet]

Need help re-linking my thm account to my discord

"Your Discord account is already linked with a token. If you wish to update your token, please contact a moderator."

[rapid merlin]

Hey guys how can Instart hacking ?

Can I just start with my MacBook ?

[chilly veldt]

yeah, just #start-here

[sly coyote]

FINALLY done with the Cyber Security 101 path 🎉

[blissful current]

Congratz

[worn quiver]

Hello, I have an Azure penetration test scheduled for next month.
I wanted to ask if the Azure learning path on TryHackMe is considered effective preparation for real-world Azure pentesting, or should I complement it with other resources?

[rapid merlin]

Why does everyone want me to sign up for something

Is there no chill group where someone can just help

[blissful current]

[boreal scarab]

Nothing says "Good morning" Like hearing your server lose power then ramp up fan speeds

[blissful current]

[hallow hazel]

What you guys using your home labs/servers for?

[crystal mauve]

neway gm ☕

[boreal scarab]

NAS/ PXE

[hallow hazel]

Yeah, that seems useful, but idk if I would be needing to install a new OS that often

[naive violet]

Nas, ad lab, VPN

[boreal scarab]

I have the storage, might as well make it a PXE at this point. Also other stuff is running on it, it's not just NAS/PXE

[knotty valve]

NAS, NVR storage, malware testing, etc.

[hallow hazel]

what's ad lab?

[naive violet]

Active Directory

[hallow hazel]

oh alright

[hallow hazel]

I don't have separate NVR storage myself, cause I don't have a server, but I have AgentDVR running on my localhost, and I've kind of set up a system where a certain amount of the IP camera recorded videos are saved there and removed after a certain period, which will still be stored on the local machine.

[knotty valve]

I've got too many cameras where doing it all localhost would just be a pain

Especially with my PC not always being on

[hallow hazel]

Yeah, I totally get that.

[knotty valve]

I forgot what raid I used for it

Whichever was mirror

I think that's raid 2 or 3 iirc

Nvm raid 1 is mirror

Had to google 😅

[hallow hazel]

Well yeah.. I've got only 4 cameras so it's not that bad

[jade oar]

All night didn’t worked I just woke up and it’s 7pm

[mortal root]

verify doesnt work

[knotty valve]

Make sure you have the command selected and your discord client is up to date

[mortal root]

when i type verify is sjhould pop up but it doesnt

[knotty valve]

Should look something like this

[hallow hazel]

When you do /verify it shows you the token part

yeah like that

[knotty valve]

Reload the discord client and make sure it's updated

[mortal root]

ok

[knotty valve]

Also sorry if the red filter makes it hard to see on my screenshot

It's cause it's dark and I want to help reduce eye strain without having to wear my glasses

[upper knoll]

Icl I’ve just accepted I need to wear my glasses on my pc

[blissful current]

[mortal root]

it worked thanks guys

[knotty valve]

I refuse to

I don't want to look like anymore of a nerd than I already am

[upper knoll]

I can’t imagine it makes it that bad

[knotty valve]

It doesn't

They're just reading glasses

[upper knoll]

You are being a silly bean then aren’t you

[knotty valve]

Ye

[upper knoll]

My eyes struggle with focus

So I’m not too bothered about needing them.

I like to be able to focus my eyes

[blissful current]

[knotty valve]

Same

Doesnt help with I'm dyslexic too

[upper knoll]

Omg we are the same

[knotty valve]

Tho I only struggle with focus close up

[upper knoll]

Oh mines mid and long range

[knotty valve]

F

[upper knoll]

Close range vision is about all I got

[hallow hazel]

Why is it red tho

don't you just have a blue light filter?

or like a reading mode in the monitor settings?

[knotty valve]

Blue light filters don't reduce a lot of eye strain

The red light spectrum is easier on the eyes and preserves certain cone and rod aspects (like the ability to see in the dark)

[blissful current]

[knotty valve]

That's not to say blue light filters don't help

Cause they do, but it doesn't solve a lot of eye strain, just some

I have both blue light filter and the red light enabled

[queen flare]

selecting text makes them purple now or am i tripping?

[knotty valve]

Only if you happen to trip into the echo beta

[pallid lotus]

Can both not be true?

[upper knoll]

It does yea

[hallow hazel]

You have a setting in your monitor called red light filter?

[knotty valve]

Usually it's referred to something like "night light" or whatever

[queen flare]

no

[crystal mauve]

Weird my night light makes it look a bit green

[pallid lotus]

So at any given point you can either be tripping or THM highlights text in purple?

[safe oxide]

[queen flare]

its like schrodingers tripping

[pallid lotus]

Listen closely. Can you hear that?
It's the sound of druggies world over wailing in grief

[pallid lotus]

Uh

[knotty valve]

Depends on the filter

Ideally it should absorb all other lights and just be red and black

[pallid lotus]

Kudos to THM for single handedly solving the world's hallucinogenic problem though

[knotty valve]

Depends on the intensity

My laptop light is set to 2.3k lumen

[blissful current]

yeeee

[knotty valve]

Which is an orangy red

[blissful current]

[pallid lotus]

Well that's mature smh

[knotty valve]

Nice

Very demure

[blissful current]

[blissful snow]

hi

[blissful current]

hi

[hallow hazel]

Well, my monitor just has a reading mode, which acts as like a blue light filter.

[blissful current]

[hallow hazel]

Is there like actual research behind the red & black colours being a lot better for eye strain issues?

[knotty valve]

Most monitors will have either a blue light filter, or what they call "eye saver mode" which greys it out a bit

[knotty valve]

Yea

[blissful snow]

hry

[safe oxide]

Eh

[blissful current]

fine, u?

[blissful snow]

im good

[blissful current]

[knotty valve]

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477153519885157
And
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3499892/

There's probably more studies

But those were the two I was able to find quicker

[blissful current]

https://tenor.com/view/erm-aksuali-veli-vel-nerd-nerd-emoji-gif-11908435316515627035

me

[blissful snow]

I'm going to try to master these
• Social Engineering
• Physical Security Testing
• Wireless Network Attacks
• Exploit Development
• Malware Analysis
• Reverse Engineering
• Privilege Escalation
• Command and Control (C2)
• Post-Exploitation
• Evasion Techniques
• Persistence Mechanisms
• Vulnerability Research

[gusty inlet]

It will take years.

Good luck.

[blissful snow]

how many should i do

[craggy wadi]

you got your work cut out for you.

[blissful snow]

not do but master

[craggy wadi]

you can never really master them of course because they're always evolving but i get your point

[blissful snow]

I'm from the future

[craggy wadi]

doubt it

[gusty inlet]

Also, some of them are entire jobs. It'd take years to master one of them.

By the time you go to master a second one, you'd forget a lot of the first.

[blissful snow]

soo I should master one and get aleast decent at the other's

[hallow hazel]

Depends a lot on what you exactly mean with "master"?

[craggy wadi]

maybe attempt to be versed in them. or better yet, find the job you want, see what the requirements are and attempt to have a solid understanding in those areas.

[blissful snow]

For me I mean get realyyyyyy goood

[dark mason]

Finally done with school for today

[blissful snow]

Just start for me 😭

[blissful snow]

well its more 🙃

[craggy wadi]

its great to have goals listed out like that for sure. you can create sublists under those too. i like it alot.

[blissful snow]

I normally get chatgpt to help me with some of the formatting etc, there was a lot of useless desriptions under theses.

Wait nah might add some of them bak.

[craggy wadi]

yeah chatgpt requires hand holding for sure

[blissful snow]

Yeah.

A lot lol

[craggy wadi]

its become a lot better though. if i reflect on how bad it was a year ago, my gosh

[blissful snow]

How bad was it

[craggy wadi]

bad enough that you were better off not using it at all haha

imo

now its actually super useful as an assistant so to speak.

[blissful snow]

oooh ithink you said i not its lol

[craggy wadi]

this is personally too much for me still. i think id try to consolidate it so its more digestible. you don't want to feel annoyed or overwhelmed when reading it. should be legible.

[blissful snow]

Yeah deepseek beats chatgpt but deepseek have connetion issues

[craggy wadi]

no comment.

i havent tried it and probably wont

[rapid merlin]

Afternoon

[dark mason]

Haha

[blissful snow]

For sure, once I made some like this and thought it would be good to have sooo many sublist under it, I never ended up getting all the way thro

[dark mason]

Suffer!

[craggy wadi]

exactly.

it probably suits some people though

[blissful snow]

My poor back 😭

Yeah.

[craggy wadi]

its not even the amount of sublists for me, its the length. like if they take too long to read. its gotta be concise

hows your notes situation?

[blissful snow]

good I use obsidian

and post it to a private github repo

[craggy wadi]

i know some people were talking about it yesterday. couldnt recall if you were one of em. nice.

[blissful snow]

I wasn't

[craggy wadi]

thats the key i think. at least for referencing later

yeah alot of people use obsidian so makes sense

[blissful snow]

Yeah I use them a lot for priv escal

[craggy wadi]

same.

[blissful snow]

I was using mousepad lol

[craggy wadi]

i use trilium

but still use notepad all the time for quick stuff

[cosmic pendant]

Good Morning

[blissful snow]

Yeah

[blissful snow]

Good morning.

I wish had someone irl to study with.

I did but he was a senior so he wasn't here for long 😭

We were going crazy in tech class lol.

I always had 90 or 100

[echo sentinel]

Maybe you can find someone online?

[blissful snow]

I can but it seems better to have someone sitting infront of me

[rapid merlin]

Yeah, makes it easier to stay motivated

[knotty valve]

Make a clone of yourself

And study with it

[blissful snow]

I dont feel like making another time machine

The one I have now can only go to the pass.

[cosmic pendant]

You in the US?

[blissful snow]

maybeee

yes

[rapid merlin]

I'm kinda confused to start learning cyber security
any suggestions to start?

[blissful snow]

Tryhackme

[rapid merlin]

web?

[hallow hazel]

https://tryhackme.com/hacktivities?tab=roadmap

[sharp citrus]

TryHackMe's Blog

Look at the awesome resources written by TryHackMe!

​

https://tryhackme.com/r/resources/blog

TryHackMe Socials · May 6, 2025, 12:21 PM

[blissful snow]

wrong thing

[rapid merlin]

no worries

[blissful snow]

Yeah this

[hallow hazel]

If you're confused start with the Pre Security Path

[blissful snow]

I always end up doing this 🙃

[knotty valve]

What does pre security even go through

[hallow hazel]

The very basics

[knotty valve]

Never did it cause I knew majority of the fundamentals already

[rapid merlin]

I'm a bit begginner in these stuff
but i'm way initrested to learn this from my childhood

[knotty valve]

Like how to google?

Like not be an ass

But knowing how to google is amazing in OSINT

[hallow hazel]

Somewhat, but it's more like intro to OSI model and networking overall

also the basics of linux commands and windows fundamentals

[knotty valve]

I was gonna get a sticker for my laptop that said "I'm no hacker, but I can google better than you"

[hallow hazel]

that's solid

I'd have it on mine

[blissful snow]

Google dorking

[knotty valve]

I opted for a QR code Rick roll, and show me the "nothing" you clicked on

The stickers I have

I need more

[blissful snow]

What were yall talking about 👀

lool

[knotty valve]

No Gender Only Void is my favourite sticker still

[sick lance]

Us signal clone was hacked

[knotty valve]

Lel

Can't say I'm too surprised

[knotty loom]

Hello, what are the rooms that gives the more points ? Do you have a link ? Thx :\D

[rapid merlin]

I wish that was possible

[knotty valve]

Harder rooms give more points at the cost of being more difficult

But I don't recommend doing them just for the points

Use the rooms to learn and review

[knotty loom]

Yeah yeah, i'm here to learn, but points are good too haha

[knotty valve]

Yea just saying lol

[knotty loom]

Thx :)

[knotty valve]

All well and good to go for points

I was doing the same few weeks ago so I could throw my level up

[dark mason]

I can't wait to start grinding THM

But finals are kicking my ass rn

[knotty valve]

At one point I think I did 168 questions or smth

Didn't realise I did that much until last night

[blissful snow]

@dark mason ?

[dark mason]

What?

[blissful current]

I have tons of stickers ..made a collection through merches and stickers given in Participated Hackathons lol

[knotty valve]

My laptop is just a memeboard for stickers

[dark mason]

I just got my first batch of stickers from a ctf

An experience you will never forget

[blissful current]

I have a lot more put in my cupboard lol

And Tshirts, Hoodies , badges , other merches too

[blissful snow]

you asked if i was in the us

I said yes

[blissful current]

Sedly the mariaDB ones aren't proper cut outs ... they're all from official sources tho

[dark mason]

That wasn't me who asked

[blissful current]

It's was 🍞 Toaster

[blissful snow]

I'm so blind 💀

[blissful snow]

@cosmic pendant yes

[blissful current]

Defcon stickaaaa 🫠

[blissful snow]

I fix it

[knotty valve]

Ya

[frozen gull]

sup homies

[frozen gull]

predator ?

crazy

[blissful current]

Yes

[frozen gull]

how long does ur battery last

[knotty valve]

Forever

(mine is always plugged in)

[frozen gull]

i mean without charge

doesnt it heat up

mine does turn hot asf

[craggy wadi]

definitely better imo

[blissful current]

Depending on usage 2hrs max if using work stuff like ms office suite etc

[blissful snow]

Same but its not bad as my other

[blissful snow]

what imo

[blissful snow]

it used to burn me

[knotty valve]

No cause mine doesn't constantly supply power if it doesn't need to

[craggy wadi]

the updated list

[frozen gull]

bro youtube lasts an hour and half at max

even pdf usage takes gpu

cuz no inegrated one

it runs on rtx 4050

[blissful snow]

ohh ok

[knotty valve]

Smart limiters go brr