👥・help-me

[whole patio]

if you are new and alone, that is

That's why I suggested to rate yourself higher than the competition, but offer some recurring option.. like "I do this for X, but if you also take the maintenance option I can lower that to Y, with monthly invoices for Z

Make it look like your prices are calculated and well thought out, cause your client may also have no idea how much seems appropriate

[spark terrace]

im 99% sure this is sus, can someone confirm? (where can i send ss)

[zenith sleet]

Hey, im currently studying through tryhack me, how long do you guys think itll take for me to start being able to do bug bounties? currently my goal rn bcs im kinda desperate for money. Also, does anyone have any study material recommendation for web hacking and bug bounties?

[lost vapor]

you cannot send any screenshots or embed them just yet, you can send an imgur link

[spark terrace]

ok i dont know how to do rhat tho

its just a ss of text message

[lost vapor]

it'll take just as much as it would when you learn the fundamentals plus hacking
which can be a minimum of 4 months depending on your pace
i make it sound easy but it's not as easy, therefore time extends beyond that so don't be discouraged

[lost vapor]

1. search imgur on google
2. click on first result that comes up
3. upload an image
4. paste image link here

[zenith sleet]

currently sinking 2 to 3 hours on studying, but yeah im currently learning the fundamentals, after that imma go into web hacking and stuff

[spark terrace]

thanks

dont even need to send it its blatantly a scam its sent with 100 peiple in groupchat

thanks anyway

[lost vapor]

web hacking would be a specific field you learn after you already learn about the general stuff of hacking and have your own flow

since it requires you to learn about sql, javascript, php, and html

[zenith sleet]

well best i can do rn is continue learning, eventually i'll get there, ty for the info tho 🫶

[elder path]

I am a graduate in applied programming and I would appreciate some cool ideas for an end of the year project. I have no preference for it being web or an application or etc.

Would appreciate every idea even if it is not entirely to my liking

[chrome swallow]

Make a PoC about the chinese remainder theore

[elder path]

I am looking for something way bigger but it is a good idea

It can be like a web page full with examples for theorems

[spiral notch]

make a legitimate conspiracy page explaining the amount of control the US government has had over us, like the dual ecr DRBG where they backdoored the pseudo random generator to the most popular cryptographic algorithm used back then and could decipher EVERYTHING

That’s encrypted, including e2ee messages, SSL/TLS traffic

and some other things

intel ME, Amd PSP

-# and then see how quick you get assassinated

owo

[twin seal]

[zenith sleet]

how do I keep constantly updating my github with actual relevant stuff to my curriculum?

mine is currently empty except for some javascript random number game i made 3 months ago

[faint glade]

Can anyone teach me how to unlock phones?

[whole patio]

Don't steal phones

[slow edge]

We do not do that here, please read #📜・rules

[faint glade]

Nah its not for anything illegal, im just trying to start a business

[whole patio]

You would be amazed how many people add "not illegal" to their questions. Look elsewhere for a business

[faint glade]

Yeah I understand, its just an idea I had but thanks

[warped crow]

Hey guys, I'm currently using Windows. Can I use Ubuntu from the Windows terminal without a virtual machine or dual boot? Switching to a virtual machine all the time is a bit annoying.
The WiFi card isn't working either.

[whole patio]

https://ubuntu.com/desktop/wsl

[warped crow]

Thanks 😄

[whole patio]

wont use your wifi card either though

[next dagger]

people have the audacity to ask those questions

[whole patio]

its a bit depressing

[next dagger]

[tawdry pulsar]

Has anyone here ever hacked a Facebook account?

[whole patio]

seems unrelated to #👥・help-me .. also, why would anyone confess to some rando

[tawdry pulsar]

I was just asking

[whole patio]

And I was just telling you that it seems like a nonsense question in the wrong channel

Wrong server probably, too

[tawdry pulsar]

Well if one doesn't ask questions, how would he/she know?

[feral lintel]

common sense?

[idle crown]

How do I get paid books/Ebooks for free?

[whole patio]

Are you like.. 12? You are asking people to confess to a crime in a public forum..

[warm sundial]

Idk but if you go to O’Reilly Books you can get a 10 day free trial.

[stiff wave]

Ocean pdf

[pale jay]

i just started learning from tryhackme and after 4 sessions there is a paid subscription is there any way to continue without paying monthly?

[whole patio]

THM has its own discord server you could consult, but in a nutshell.. that is its business model

There are some projects that let you download vulnerable machines and host them yourselves, but the curation of the material is part of the appeal of THM and HTB and the reason they are popular

[pale jay]

thank you for the information

[idle crown]

Thanks guys for the positive feedback. Cheers from the South Pacific 👍

[tight smelt]

HI.
I'm new and I'm curious to study cyber security and I'll go to high school to do that sector I'm studying python and variables at the moment I'm not really a skid I think of mini projects and I'm having a lot of fun, I hate the skids who download Kali and think who knows what, then there's me who's still studying and I'm at the beginning.
Good day

[tight smelt]

Shit

I hate the traductor

@here

[whole patio]

And what do you need help with? Or why did you choose the channel #👥・help-me to post that?

[lucid crescent]

Can I get some tips on how to build a web scrapper that can mimic user behaviour and read though dynamic websites??

[jaunty wadi]

it just does that

[frigid knot]

idk why i just noticed it

[spiral notch]

just tips? do you already have a base

[chilly horizon]

Can you help about how will hack the wife

[slow edge]

We do not help with that, please read #📜・rules and ya, stop hacking wivessss.... it is dangerous, it is more dangerous than hacking FBI

[chilly horizon]

Okay sorry

[barren steppe]

I find myself in the same position time and time again. I regulatory get admin access to the router, but once I am there I am stuck I have no clue what to pursue or how to do it. Is there any practical advice or places anyone can recommend to study up to get me back on the right track?

[fathom spindle]

Compared to all the other questions i've seen in here I feel like mine is a bit more mild lmfao 😄 does anyone have any advice on how to build Safety features into a NeuroSym-Continual Meta Learning framework and Model?

[barren steppe]

My my if that is tame to you I am way out of my depth in this place.

[fathom spindle]

I've got the framework built finally just finished debugging it today but then it dawned on me , for such an ai i need to figure out how to implement some safety features into the AI system and wasnt to sure where to start

[barren steppe]

I know very little about AI, but I think Microsoft has a content safety application for AI with Azure. I would love to learn more about AI if you know of any good place. Sorry I wish I could help more.

[fathom spindle]

Thank You actually, that does help out a lot. and Honestly, I just started researching AI books to see what was out there. I've been working on this project of mine for 8 years now. I finally finished most of it today. Its a Cyber Security Programming language that has NewSon which is my AI helpers name baked into the runtime of the language so that when you enter the REPL and type Ctrl + O followed by the keyword newson and hit enter it then opens up the chat area within the REPL of Gambit so that you can get help from NewSon to help write code in the Gambit language. its been a really hard task to accomplish and i have a few more security words to finish implementing for the language itself to be fully finished. but before i finished it i wanted to make sure that all the proper security measures were in place. Idk it hit me this morning that the ai i've built where there isnt any that i know of out there yet in the manner of a NeuroSymbolic Continual Meta Learning paradigm model and could possibly be dangerous when paired with a highly advanced cybersecurity language. I guess what im saying is i learned through 8 years of trial and error and honestly im not sure where the best place is to start.. i guess it would depend on your ambition and goals of what you want to accomplish

and before you ask... yes i did indeed get the names Gambit and Newson from the old comic book series. i thought it would be a perfect fit lmfao

[spiral notch]

And what are Truman do

U trynna do

[barren steppe]

I am out of my depth, but on a side note I do love naming you gave the model. It has a nice geekyness to it.

[spiral notch]

I hate ai owo

[fathom spindle]

lol i appreciate it. i figured it really fit the occassion

[barren steppe]

Really just want to improve. I was told to look into port forwarding, and tunneling. but I thought I would ask others for a second opinion.

[spiral notch]

to learn networking

you do not need to go into the router

https://youtube.com/@kvt5 watch these

low quality editing but good advice

according to hundreds of experts, most here :3

[barren steppe]

low editing or not Ill take any help, and silver lining is its got a cute cat drawing.

thank you for the help

[spiral notch]

ofc !

[pseudo radish]

[stark gale]

How can I learn to post a video to internet platforms like fb, yahoo, etc. and keep myself completely anonymous to avoid retribution from bad actors? I can wear a mask, maybe change my voice, but how to avoid being identified by other means?

[mint crow]

@chilly merlin hey there just wanted to let you know that I will have to quote you for the assignment will this be ok ?

[chilly merlin]

Sure

I can't tell u where I work or who I work for that's confidential

[mint crow]

That’s fine

It’s not super in depth it’s your basic question stuff

[chilly merlin]

Go ahead

[mint crow]

Ok awesome let me get my paper ready k

[spiral notch]

what assignment?

[mint crow]

It’s a college assignment

Printing my paper now for the questions

[chilly merlin]

Got it?

[frigid knot]

TechnoMage said I can interview you

The questions are

What is your quest?

What is your favorite color?

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[buoyant tree]

Np

[chilly merlin]

?

[chilly merlin]

I think it's 320km/h

[chilly merlin]

To conquer earth

[chilly merlin]

Void

[feral lintel]

and why would you not have a key?

here's some help finding your product key 🙂 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-your-windows-product-key-aaa2bf69-7b2b-9f13-f581-a806abf0a886

[thorny lion]

Does anybody have study material advise for the CYSA+ Certification test with comptia

[chilly merlin]

Professor messer

The goat

Search him up on google or yt

[thorny lion]

Thank you

[astral aurora]

is it possible to remove intel ME?

[molten bane]

just watched the first video, it was fun 🫡

[chilly merlin]

Intel ME?

[astral aurora]

intel management engine

[chilly merlin]

‎Open bios.
‎Look for an option related to the Intel Management Engine or ME, which may be under an "Advanced" or "System Configuration" menu, disable the engine or find an option like "ME State" and set it to "Disabled" or "HCP", exit.

[spiral notch]

firee

[spiral notch]

no

not entirely

libreboot can only remove some components

if it’s a big deal for you buy a mother board from before 2009

[atomic pike]

Gm everyone

[terse inlet]

comissioning someone to help me regain access to compromised microsoft account.

[solemn maple]

Hey I’m a full stack developer student looking at testing security for my own websites like penetrating testing any good websites I can learn that from thank you and maybe some networking

[spiral notch]

tryhackme

[spiral notch]

we don’t help with that here

[terse inlet]

Channel is called “help-me” I think it’s more than fitting, a community member asking for help?

[solemn maple]

Alright thank you is that free or do you have to pay?

[spiral notch]

okay? and we have set rules

we do not help with unethicalities or illegalities

it’s your account, but you do not own Google

thus we wouldn’t be hacking your account either

we’d be attempting to hack Google

[spiral notch]

it has more than enough free resources

some are paid via subscription

[terse inlet]

How is that unethical or illegal-

[spiral notch]

hacking Google? are u fr

[terse inlet]

Hacking Google vs an account are two complete different things

[spiral notch]

I just told you

we would need to hack Google, to hack your account

you own the account, not Google tho

the account is provided BY Google

[severe hatch]

retards bro

[terse inlet]

That’s like saying that opening your neighbors mailbox is breaking into a federal reserve vault

Soy a little more. If your not interested idrc

[solemn maple]

Thank you

Tbh £15 a month ain’t bad when your more advanced

[spiral notch]

LMAOOO

[whole patio]

Just like you can't break into a bank just because you have an account or deposit box, you are not allowed to hack into google to recover "your" account

[spiral notch]

ehh yeah

I don’t like paying for it in general since you can get all info it offers for free

but like

[severe hatch]

bugbounty?

[spiral notch]

if 15 isnt a big deal then go for it for sure

[severe hatch]

where

[spiral notch]

?

where what

[severe hatch]

ur bio

[spiral notch]

yea?

[severe hatch]

what bugs

[spiral notch]

different.. ones?

[severe hatch]

?

[radiant glade]

Hello… can anyone please tell me any software I can use to recover data from a failed hard drive

[spiral notch]

A couple idors, some firmware mistakes that let me reach/corrupt memory

and so on

[spiral notch]

qrec

is the best

[radiant glade]

Thanks

[spiral notch]

atleast from my experience

it recovered some important old documents for me

from a usb I quick formatted twice and installed a live os on

[spiral notch]

@severe hatch

[radiant glade]

Okay…

[severe hatch]

u find bugs?

u can make 30k$ by finding a discord bug

when u find it u get a badge n u cld sell it

[spiral notch]

yes I used to

[severe hatch]

for 25k-40k$

[spiral notch]

not that much

lol

[severe hatch]

30k is lol

[spiral notch]

I found a bug for discord

[severe hatch]

dm

[spiral notch]

yet their

gig is closed rn

so I have nowhere to report it

only alpha testers can submit bugs and even the app to be an alpha tester is closed

[spiral notch]

no yea ofc

but you’re not getting 30k for a discord bug

atleast not for a non critical one

[radiant glade]

Couldn’t find any qrec that recovers data

[severe hatch]

the badge costs 30k$

in black market

[whole patio]

do you know whats on the drive? Do you need to recover the folder structure, or have any idea about its status encrypted.. file system, etc?

[severe hatch]

servers

a friend of mine sold his acc with the badge for 30k$

[spiral notch]

okay well once I do get it

[whole patio]

or just "the pictures"

[spiral notch]

I would not sell it

I couldn’t care less and I’d rather keep

[severe hatch]

your account can be termed

and its gone

loo

yk

discord terms for shitty reasons

[spiral notch]

I agree

[radiant glade]

It’s my old pc drive, I need to recover all photos, documents, videos and MP3’s from it, that basically everything on it

[severe hatch]

dm rq

[whole patio]

Was it encrypted? Win11 bitlocker for instance?

[spiral notch]

but guess what

[radiant glade]

No

[spiral notch]

This account is ilortsnt to me

important

I’m careful with it

me and my partner have over 500,000 cumulative messages here

[whole patio]

alright.. your best bet is to check whether you can make a (forensic) image of the hard drive, without write process on it. Many live boot linux system offer up a forensic boot mode to guarantee that. Then use some dd tool (dd, dcfldd, guymager, ftk, etc..) to make a 1:! bit copy of the drive. This will use up as much storage as the drive was in size.
If its just files you need to recover, good old photorec can do the job. This will try to recover anything on the drive, whether it was previously deleted or not, so this will also take up a lot of storage.

if you cant image the drive, cause its physically damaged, this might be out of scope for something people can achieve with a simple tool

[spiral notch]

https://www.cgsecurity.org

this was it

iirc

photorec

cuz

qrec.exe is the file name

iirc

[radiant glade]

Ok cool
But can I do this on windows or just Kali?

[spiral notch]

Yep!!!

It was photo rec

[radiant glade]

Great
Thanks 🙏

[spiral notch]

use that

best there is imo

[whole patio]

you can image with any linux live system, that offers a forensic boot mode. This would be done with a live usb stick anyway.

Of course you can just YOLO it and do this stuff on windows while windows is running and accessing the harddrive.. FTKimager should be available for windows

best practice in forensics is always "do not touch the source drive",

[radiant glade]

Ok got it
Thanks

[atomic pike]

Gm everyone, pls I need help, I lost my phone a year ago, is it possible for me to locate, and is it possible for the original IMEI number to be changed?

[radiant glade]

Yes it’s possible for the IMEI to be changed if it’s an android

[spiral notch]

least suspicious question of the day

[spiral notch]

not always

[atomic pike]

It's an android

[spiral notch]

it will corrupt the phone in many cases

[spiral notch]

so you wanna locate it and then switch the IMEI.. why?

trynna steal it?

[whole patio]

Probably trying to disable it

[atomic pike]

No, I am asking to know if I can still locate the phone Even if the thief changes the IMEI

[atomic pike]

It's mine

[whole patio]

you really think if every rando could locate any stolen phone, that law enforcement wouldn't do something with them

[atomic pike]

So it's not possible 😔

[woven anvil]

It would be unethical to track it.
Talk to the local authorities.
Don't ask for unethical stuff here. #📜・rules

[atomic pike]

I didn't know it is unethical to track phones, just learning about this today

[woven anvil]

If a human has a phone, and you are tracking its location, then it would be unethical, as you are tracking a human.

The term would be called Stalking.

[whole patio]

Now imagine a situation.. where you are not actually the former owner.. lets play pretend you are in fact some creepy stalker who wants to locate their target... still not seeing where the exact same situation is legally spicy?

[atomic pike]

Alright, so what's the best thing to do, I really need it

[whole patio]

Go to your law enforcement offices

[atomic pike]

I get it now, that's why it's unethical

[atomic pike]

Alright, thanks, I will definitely do that

[next dagger]

unless you have explicit perms from the user to track them, it's unethical

[atomic pike]

Imagine asking for permission before getting your phone from the person who didn't even think about that, any ways, that's life

[whole patio]

That is why we do not help with it anyway

[atomic pike]

I understand

[calm sparrow]

Hey can someone here help me with a Facebook account you're not using Facebook or ticktock account please I really need so bad

[whole patio]

Contact their support

[tribal cobalt]

Hey please I'm a new member! Can someone help me regain my hacked Gmail account I used the Gmail for everything on my phone but it's been hacked by someone

[whole patio]

Contact their support

[solemn maple]

Yeah contact there support give them proof of your account details and they will help revive your account. It’s no good getting someone else to hack your account to get it back also maybe add 2 authentication on your email

[gleaming pond]

Hello does anyone know of a program called Roast mode

[rocky oriole]

hello ! guys where i can learn the fundamentals of mal dev

[valid belfry]

First step is learning how to Google

[jaunty wadi]

learn to write in a programming language first, specifically a native one such as C/C++ or maybe C# if you want it to be a bit easier

[solar quest]

Guys how do I make use of htb in full length without vip+

I mean in the range of vip+

Htb=hackthebox

Anyone?

[feral lintel]

you want to use their paid services without paying for them?

[solar quest]

No

Learn hacking in the level of vip+ using the free resources

I mean free labs

[feral lintel]

not sure what you are asking then, go practice on their free boxes then?

[solar quest]

Well sorry I am unable to frame my question exactly

[jaunty wadi]

i would start with tryhackme if you want more free rooms

[feral lintel]

just fyi, they tend to give a way subscribtions during various occassions, like on Twitch during streams etc

[tepid fern]

But what if the person got yr phone stolen ...

[solar quest]

Oh ok

[tepid fern]

If someone stole your phone... And u want to track it.. how do u go about it

[feral lintel]

how could you possibly verify this on Discord

[solar quest]

Tryhackme has many easy rooms not like hackthebox

[solar quest]

And very less hard rooms ig

[tepid fern]

How?

[feral lintel]

the answer is: you can't.

[whole patio]

"Go to the police", as we keep saying

[tepid fern]

Okay cool
. But where I am from u would spend x2 of the money u got yr phone to fetch the Peron with police.. it's hard out here

[whole patio]

only the dumbest of the dumb people say they want to track their ex or spy on their girlfriend.. they all use sob stories.. we are not believing a single one of them.
No "What if" no "But what" ... go to the police.. or the service provider

[whole patio]

I don't give a damn about what you say about "special circumstances" or "why its different in this case"

[solar quest]

Just buy a new phone

[whole patio]

heard em all

[chilly merlin]

at this point buy a new phone

[whole patio]

you all just got lazy with your fake stories.. back then people put in an effort.. a dog was kidnapped, a sibling gone missing..

[solar quest]

Well now I get it I am saying in the basis of skills that are on vip+

[feral lintel]

gotcha. well, there are other platforms that provide free content, pwn college comes to mind

[tepid fern]

Lol.. I ain't among those that spy on their GF ... That's so unethical... I can't even try that... Women lie and believe you... They lie at what u won't even imagine... Broke up last week.. a relationship of 4 years by Dec we could have been 5 years .. I just had to cos she was being too sneaky.. I didn't need a spy app to locate her or track her movements.. I just used my sense

[solar quest]

Ok

[feral lintel]

in general, all the material is out there, it's just harder to sift through if it's not curated on one platform. and hack the box went through the effort of curating it for its users, but wants to be paid for it for that service.
so yeah, perhaps spend some time with freely available resources first

[whole patio]

"I dont need to hire someone to hack you.. I creep on you.. with my mind" ?

not the heroic backstory you may think

[solar quest]

Okay that helps

[tepid fern]

Exactly

[chilly merlin]

huh

[whole patio]

See what I meant?

[tepid fern]

Pls can someone put me on a job..
I just lost mine .. any job at all.. I have a good laptop and Internet connect..

[whole patio]

Barely an effort

[feral lintel]

Lol, I would not go out of my way to recommend you

[tepid fern]

Why

[feral lintel]

exhibit A: #👥・help-me message

[tepid fern]

So how does that make u think u can't recommende

Me

[feral lintel]

Why would I?

[whole patio]

Cause you sound like a terrible person to be around

[solar quest]

Why ask a random guy online go find yourself

[solar quest]

😂

[tepid fern]

How ? Read what I said earlier

[whole patio]

I'm german, we are allowed to

[solar quest]

Ok

[tepid fern]

I am looking for help here

[tepid fern]

So cos u are German.. u are allowed to be rude ?

And disrespectful?

[whole patio]

I'm not rude, I am being very clear and direct

[feral lintel]

@solar quest thought of another one, overthewire. It's another resource with free mini-CTFs to practice on, to get your feet wet.
At some point if you want to transition into more elaborate techniques, you might have to reconsider one of the paid platforms, or alternatively there's always the option to set up your own home lab of course. You can download vulnerable machines online, set them up yourself and practice that way

[whole patio]

We can try rude, if you want to

[tepid fern]

How ?? Calling me a terrible person ? Lol

[solar quest]

Okay i can create my own lab

[whole patio]

I said you "Sound like a terrible person" .. creeping on your ex.. with your mind

[solar quest]

I heard of overthewire

[whole patio]

but we get offtopic here

[tepid fern]

I don't creep with that

[tepid fern]

Who said that.. can't u read.. I said .. I didn't bother spy on her.. cos it's a waste of time..

[whole patio]

https://imgur.com/a/22GK8pV could have fooled me

[tepid fern]

I was concurring to what the other person was saying

[whole patio]

Were getting further offtopic btw

sure you were

[tepid fern]

U are being slow

[chilly merlin]

how old are u

[tepid fern]

Why do u ask ?

32 btw

[chilly merlin]

curious

[tepid fern]

A man doesn't hide his age

I just need an online job man.. remotely to be precise

[feral lintel]

I could not care less if I tried

[whole patio]

I believe in you

[feral lintel]

🤓

[tepid fern]

I didnt even wanted you to

[tepid fern]

Won't change anything

[lost vapor]

we don't help with those here
just reset your password

[calm sparrow]

Still don't understand

[whole patio]

Wrong server. Wrong question. No help for you.

[calm sparrow]

Okay

[spiral notch]

and

what makes you better than others with a laptop and a connection?

[thorny plank]

yo

[lapis pollen]

helo

[hardy pulsar]

Helo

[stark willow]

I tried installing dual OS in my laptop and i had problem in accessing my pendrive and after that i did something that I don't remember and i started installing the kali after that i gave password for encrypted disk and i remember it then later i came to login page i remember by username but i forgot my password i can't login into kali nor am unable to switch to windows

[whole patio]

turning secure boot on in your bios could be enough to bring you back to windows, that would be my first suggestion

Apart from that your comment "did something and I don't remember what" may be the key info

[stark willow]

I went into boot setting of hp rather than windows

Ig

[stark willow]

I will try that first

[next dagger]

super tricky tbh. use a minimal config like make defconfig instead of /boot/config. it doesn’t pull ubuntu-specific settings. then you just make | tee build.log

normally people don’t base ubuntu for their configs because it checks for certs that aren’t available in a vanilla source (the error you faced) so you need to disable or input those certs manually. and even after that it just has a lot of dependencies that could fail your 2h long build over a version gap

[molten bane]

New to cyber here. I’m doing HTB’s Junior Cybersecurity Analyst path, is it a good way to start learning? if not i'm open to recommendations 🫡

[whole patio]

#👥・new-member-guide

[pale cairn]

Hello

I want to know if you can run Kali with windows

[heavy pebble]

hello
can someone teach me how to use linux command line the basic commands

[whole patio]

Several ways possible. www.kali.org/docs list them

[whole patio]

https://linuxjourney.com

[pale cairn]

Thank you sir

[barren steppe]

I have a bit of an unorthodox question. How do you keep studying, attacking, troubleshooting, trying? When you are so tired and fatigued by failure after failure. Is there a mindset or some ritual to help you keep at it? How do you keep going? (I recognize this is more of a philosophical & psychological question, but I do believe this is a real issue that other including myself might have.)

[lost vapor]

your mindset about failure is key in all of this
fail != loss
you win each time you're failing if you continue on, because each failure you go through would put you in a better place
the more you discover that you don't know, the more gaps you keep filling in, and the more you WILL know

i fail a lot right now, we're not done failing

[barren steppe]

I suppose that would suggest a flaw in strategy. I don't feel like I am growing so my approach to trying to grow is likely flawed. Thank you I will reflect on this.

Goal setting has always been an issue for me. How do you determine if the goal you set is accurate enough, high but not too high?

[wind minnow]

Any one with free servers for hosting websites....

[next dagger]

omg after reading the first paragraph i was convinced you're rapping 😂

[next dagger]

get a vps. it's not that expensive

[wind minnow]

Vps????

I think that's when one has no clue of the roadmap of the course they're trying to master

[next dagger]

virtual private server

[barren steppe]

So then this comes down to knowing yourself and when you are ready to move on to another topic. I personally find it difficult to determine where I am in terms of skill and knowledge. IT is vast, so there will not likely be any mensurable marker to tell you when you are ready for a given advanced topic. I don't want to take up anymore of you time so the last thing I will ask you is how do you personally determine when you are ready for an advanced topic? How do you know when you foundational understanding is solid enough? And thank you for all of your input.

[wind minnow]

Yeah buh I don't know whether it's gonna help out cause it's one of recommendations I was given yesto.....

[spiral notch]

so let me make this clear

you don’t know if it’s the right choice

because 2 people, most likely both experts suggested it in a row?

[wind minnow]

Snm.......I'm trying to check on details about

[barren steppe]

@spiral notch I found your videos enjoyable they where very entertaining. Thank you for sharing them with me.

I see okay thank you for the advice

Ill try but I am reclusive by nature

[strong quarry]

please can someone help me with a free VPN login i can use?

[spiral notch]

awh you realized they were mine

haha thank you though !

[spiral notch]

proton

[strong quarry]

i will appreciate if you share your login with me

[spiral notch]

literally use proton

make ur own acc

it’s slow but free

we’re not giving randoms paid vpn logins

this is not a charity

[gusty tide]

💀

[spiral notch]

they get worse by the day

[gusty tide]

It’s crazy how you guys put up with this

[spiral notch]

I do not

[gusty tide]

I would not have the patience

[spiral notch]

you do not wanna see the amount of warning I get from the higher ups

[gusty tide]

Lol

[spiral notch]

the amount of bans I went thru

[gusty tide]

Lmaoo

I can’t blame you tho

If 99% of the messages I got were "hack my gf account" or something similar I would do the same

[spiral notch]

not to even touch on ethnicity

but they’re always from Nigeria for whatever reason

no other country

[gusty tide]

😭 😭

[spiral notch]

and I’m getting so tired of some experiences I’ve had

some dude was yapping to my dms for months just about like asking about where to learn

what to learn

how to make money

what he can do with just a phone

I literally made a full ass plan for him

[gusty tide]

Too kind icl

[spiral notch]

and then he’s like

once, he begs me for like what

200 dollars c

[gusty tide]

💀 💀

[spiral notch]

spams me and tries to call me while I’m mid clutch on valo with my gf watching

[gusty tide]

Loll

[spiral notch]

then now he texted me after idk

a month

he said he fixed his laptop

[gusty tide]

Lowkey I’d just block

[spiral notch]

was constantly conplainkmg abt his life but said future was bright

[spiral notch]

so he fixed it a month ago

now he texts again

and I’m like cool, how’s the progress

[chilly merlin]

Yappatronis

[spiral notch]

guess what…

he didn’t even start

reason? I don’t remember

might asw find it rn

[gusty tide]

Crazy

[spiral notch]

wasted a month for no reason

oh yeah great

I told him he wasted like a month

[gusty tide]

A lot of people that start out to because they want to make "easy money" or "hack into someone’s account" usually are just lazy and don’t actually want to put in the work to learn the basics

[spiral notch]

he’s like “I can’t even meet my basic needs anymore”

then he asks me to mentor him

which I already did

A LONG

time ago

but okay, can’t meet basic needs, no problem

then sell your fcuking laptop you brick with an instincts of the fcuking cement that’s holding your ass together

[spiral notch]

usually?

always

[gusty tide]

Yeah, it’s always just "teach me how to hack" without learning how computers work, or the fundamentals like it’s some sort of magic trick

[lofty sparrow]

can you teach me how to hack ? lmao i dont understand some people but hey i have an actual question that i cant figure out for the life of me if yall can help me ? im in a thm room for the jwt security and i understand how they work and all i just cant get example 3 to pass ! i can paste my commands and everything i just cant figure out if its me or the vm on their side ?

[chilly merlin]

Try typing in the commands instead copying it

Sometimes it fcks it up

[lofty sparrow]

im on my own vm connected vpn and ive tried on their attack box both coping and type the whole curl request out ! ive tried with jwt.io to modify it and cyberchef still get the same results im sure its something dumb hell ive even some looking at walkthroughs

[chilly merlin]

I'm sure it is smthg obscure

Sometimes I out in the right cmd but it doesn't work I type it out manually

Sometimes it works

[lofty sparrow]

it gives me the key must be none when the alg=none but ive taken the key away with cyberchef im not too sure how to correct that ? {
"message": "JWT could not be read: When alg = "none", key value must be None."
}

heres the example its trying to do so it must be none !
Authenticate to the API to receive your JWT and then verify your user. To perform this attack, you will need to manually alter the the alg claim in the header to be None. You can use CyberChef for this making use of the URL-Encoded Base64 option. Submit the JWT again to verify that it is still accepted, even if the signature is no longer valid, as changes have been made. You can then alter the admin claim to recover the flag.

[lofty sparrow]

here i had something come up let me boot it back up and get to where i was ill go through step by step maybe im missing a step but i set the header to that jwt.io wont let it be "None" it only accepts "none" here gimme 1 sec

[narrow fulcrum]

Can anyone assist on how to activate a vitual number bought online

[loud blaze]

hi guys can some one help me recover my wallet i lost the seedphrase i can give 10-25% in it. im small in crypto dont expect that much.

[woven anvil]

That is not something anyone can really do. Be weary of scammers.

Then you should be able to post it here without breaking the #📜・rules then? Instead of asking for DMs?

[loud blaze]

gotcha bro a lot of people messaged me already telling they can help me with my problem but asking for money to buy the software that they wanna use HAHA

[dawn geyser]

Hey guys am new here and am trying to get started on cyber security

And thought u guys could tell me what to learn what to not to learn

[woven anvil]

Yes, they see questions like yours as "easy targets"

[loud blaze]

i already made my self clear that if whoever can help me with my problem its not a problem for me to give 10-20% in the wallet.

and the funny thing is i already said how much money in it and they still offer for 100-200usd for software omg

[woven anvil]

the thing is if it was that easy, they could just take other people's wallets.

[loud blaze]

yes thats a fact bro so it wasnt that hard to understand that im willing to pay for the hassle and expertise of that individual person

[rocky oriole]

I'm know the basics of C and also some function like fork() and threads function also I know some structures and the pointers

[final blade]

Hey everyone I have a doubt and I want your opinion

Should I make Android remote rat public or not ?

[heavy pebble]

does anyone have tutorial for parrotOS because im not familiar 😔

[sage lodge]

It depends if u wanna virtual box, main OS or dual boot

[heavy pebble]

Im using vm

[sage lodge]

Then i think i am not sure but like kali u shoul go to parrotsec website And go to download And click on virtual

Then u can choose which version u want

Security version that comes with all the tools or home

[whole patio]

parrot has documentation on their website

[heavy pebble]

Okk thanks guys appreciate it 👍🔥

[molten bane]

is virtual box a bad choice for a starter lab?

[whole patio]

Virtualbox is fine

[molten bane]

okaay, ty

[chilly merlin]

guys soc analyst or sysadmin as a first job in IT?

should i direct all my focus towards learning linux sysadmin

[jovial geode]

whatever you get your hands on

learn networking security linux and a scripting language

then see whatever floats your boat

[warm anchor]

Can i see my steam recording in computer on my cellphone

[whole patio]

both could suck, I'd go with admin, but its entirely up to you and circumstances

[chilly merlin]

why would they suck , and why would you choose admin ?

are they slow as in the same routine mabye?

[whole patio]

both jobs "could" suck, depending on your employer. admin would give me a broader knowledge base

[chilly merlin]

True

[sage lodge]

Depends what u mean by public and how good is that RAT like if it's really good,it will sound good on your resume or github etc etc for example but it can cause chaos too (altho i can find some RATs online without problem if you don't download from shady website or something)so it really depends on your situation and tbh it depends only on you but i wanna say good job man keep goin 🩵 🦉

Ummmm that link looks sus man i am not gone click on it but if Someone didn't pay you contact authorities (not sure if i get it what you trying to say since my english is bad asf)

Or try contacting support

Ou sh!t my bad

[final blade]

https://youtu.be/RktccDLrzUs?si=BDxDAiWYud3pXWlm

Here is a demo of medusa

What do you think

[sage lodge]

I am not really expert but i have to say it's really well made 🫡

How much time did you spend building it?

[final blade]

1.5 months for programming

[sage lodge]

U did really great job man like really it's so cool🫡🩵

[final blade]

Thanks a lot, Really means a lot 🫡💙 Glad you liked it!

[sage lodge]

For sure man u did really good job keep goin 🩵

[chilly merlin]

Hi everyone

I'm new here and to cybersecurity and programming. I am going to start with the welcome guide.
I'm interested in both and finally decided to start.

Any tips?

Last question:
Should I be active here daily?

[sage lodge]

Hi #👥・new-member-guide should help you. Nobody Is gonna force you to be active 🦉🩵 it really depends if u have time u can come here chat with others or talk to them in voice chat altho u need to be active in way like sometimes if u have blue nick u need to type some messages or you will get kicked out it's bacause owlsec don't need milion members here if only 10 Are gone be active i hope it make sense sorry for my english

[chilly merlin]

OK thank you.

[solemn maple]

Hey what’s the difference between red team and blue team?

[orchid sundial]

Sup guys

[spiral notch]

in short

red teamers attack

blue teamers defend

[dawn geyser]

Hello guys how do I get started on cyber security in general

[spiral notch]

tryhackme

[dawn geyser]

Thanks

[solemn maple]

Oh okay red team seems more me haha

[grim hearth]

Hey everyone! Hope you're all doing well. I'm looking for some guidance. Can anyone help me figure out the best path to take for [specific goal or project]? I'd really appreciate any advice or insights!

This is the information

"Lock Screen bypass
$5,000 – $100,000

Examples
$5,000: Access to part of one app’s contents by bypassing the Lock Screen without significant or very technical effort on the physical device. As an example, you demonstrated the ability to view one or a few of a user’s contacts.
$50,000: Partial access to sensitive data from the Lock Screen. As an example, you demonstrated full access to one category of TCC-protected data, such as the full Photos library, from a locked device.
$100,000: Broad access to sensitive data from the Lock Screen. As an example, you demonstrated a full Lock Screen bypass.

[whole patio]

@lost vapor Customer

I think..

[lost vapor]

yeah we're not going to guide you to a prize of 5,000$

if anything anyone who knows can just go on about it solo without needing you around to take anything off of it

so

yeah you don't make a lot of sense with that request

but if you are looking for a path to take this is literally just OS pentesting

most likely android

hackthebox's academy has lessons about it

[bitter surge]

Noice good stuff 👌

[grim hearth]

Hi Dissonance thanks for your advice. It's Apple IOS Bounty Request. I'm not in this for the money,but I want to learn the skills to just upgrade myself.

[lost vapor]

it's harder, there are almost no resources for that

you need to have your own foundations and understanding to expand to that field on your own

[grim hearth]

Okay I appreciate your feedback @lost vapor

[fierce moon]

are there any websites who teach programming for free?

(python)

[hardy pulsar]

Cs50p

[fierce moon]

thx brother

[hardy pulsar]

Np

[mighty tiger]

Thank you

[burnt plaza]

Hey all,

I'm in my 40's, and want to get a career in cyber security. Since young age I loved computers and was into search the web for new thing. 17y ago I started to work as a designer but wanted to get back into the fun stuff. Unfortunately I didn't follow my own path of cyber security but got into development since my manager told me that's best thing you can do and I need to focus on the important stuff... ( Aka what's good for his business) I recently decided to go and find the path I wanted to take all along. I'm currently 1 month in, reading books from OTW and I found TryHackMe . Both are nice but I want to get some advice on more stuff out there ( there is a lot of AI slop out there and "in person courses" are $5-10k ) I study about 2-3 hours every night so highly motivated to do the thing I love the most helping / protecting people and computers. Any advice/ tips for platforms are welcome. Hackers Arise Is my next goal after THM. Once again all tips are more than welcome. I apologise for the weird message, thanks In advance for any help / tip 🫶

[spiral notch]

first of all, I’d rather take that myself

and probably sign an NDA

second of all, is this actually an official Apple gig?

Would love to take a look

[grim hearth]

Yes just search APPLE Security Bounty

Then click on categories

[deft violet]

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

[hard blade]

So question for the more experienced users. I've been paying for THM's courses. The issue I'm coming across is it doesn't seem like a lot of it sticks. Could be user error, but it just doesn't feel like they explain things as well as they should. I'm getting to a point to where I have to watch YouTube videos to get a solid foundation for each room. (Learning rooms, not CTFs) Is there a better place I could be be spending $15.99/mo? I'm half way through cybersec 101, so I'm going to complete that before I move to another platform, if I do. I'm just seeing if someone knows of a learning platform that may go deeper into the learning aspect of things...if any of that ADHD ramble made sense. Cheers

[deft violet]

Everyone learns differently. Its important to find your niche. Doesn't make htb or thm or wherever youre struggling a bad platform, its just that you need to find what works for you. I'd encourage you to shop around. Also, cyber security and it fields over all have a very, very high learning curve. You're gonna hit a lot of walls. It takes repetition. Not all of it is going to stick. Just keep doing it and don't quit, and eventually everything starts to makes sense, a little at a time.

[frank python]

I'm curious what you guys would do if you found an admin subdomain and it's restricted how would you guys get access to it (I like seeing what other people would do in the situation)

[deft violet]

Context here matters.

[frank python]

My English isn't very good so you might not understand what I'm saying but

[deft violet]

Nah English is fine. Its just needing to understand the purpose of why you're asking. Is this a ctf? Random website?

[frank python]

Random

[deft violet]

You dont access it. Not legal.

[frank python]

That's not the point

Like

What would you guys do

Just as an example

Because there's so many possibilities

I know multiple possibilities but I want to see what others do

[deft violet]

We can't help you with that. #📜・rules

[frank python]

I never asked for help tho

?

[deft violet]

Asking how we would access a restricted admin subdomain on a public website? Ok dude are you trolling at this point? Because by any definition thats asking for help.

[frank python]

theres so many ways people could do it?

thats not asking for help

cause i can do that with ease

but theres so many ways

[deft violet]

Rule #3 specifically

If you want to learn more about these things, the methodology and when to use an exploit any why, there are no shortage of places to do it legally. Bypassing restrictions on a public domain isn't it. Go hit up htb. You'll learn why and when.

[next dagger]

this is such a broad question lol. there are a million ways you test for any takeovers. normally you’d start with subdomain enum and then narrow it down to potential sinks. you’d have active/passive recon conducted, check for broken access controls via request-oriented tests, bruteforce via credential stuffing if there are logic flaws on the auth. replay attacks, path manipulation, checking for dangling dns, testing sso flows and so much more

[whole patio]

yeah you did

[frank python]

that's all i was asking

lol

i thought i could get more responses on other people's methods but yea

[next dagger]

just for future references, asking in the right channel wouldn’t raise so many questions this is a channel for generic questions. for pentest-related queries consider posting in #😈・pentesting

[frank python]

ah

[topaz dawn]

How can I redeem Google play gift card?

[deft violet]

You try their website? Or the instructions on the card?

[spiral notch]

just subdomain enum

[spiral notch]

Oh

[frank python]

yea

[spiral notch]

I’d do recon on it to figure out what I can do from then on?

what version of what framework it uses

are there any vulnerabilities for that version

are there any hidden elements that could be exploited

is there a possibility to edit cookies or access certain material without interacting with the admin thing at all

[frank python]

Nothing specific just like a very broad question

[spiral notch]

yeah

well yeah there’s just many ways

nobody experienced will stick to 1 metric

method*

it depends on the website, not the hacker

[frank python]

Yea

[exotic latch]

Hey this is my first time on here and im wondering if someone could assist me in figuring out who is behind an email

[arctic quartz]

Hello everyone
Can anyone help me out regarding the compTIA Security + certification
I am trying mock exams but even after do the courses etc
Still getting only 65 to 75 %
Any better way to improve my results

[chrome swallow]

is it a custom domain or like gmail.com?

[exotic latch]

Gmail

[chrome swallow]

the email name itself can expose some information

otherwise your only chance is google themselves I think

[arctic quartz]

Anyone ??

[chrome swallow]

ChatGPT has a study mode what I use sometimes

it wont give you answers but it will help you getting the right answer

so you learn more per question

or it can just make questions for you

[arctic quartz]

Ok bro really thanks for the advice

[woven anvil]

We do not assist with this here.
It would be unethical to stalk someone.
Please read our #📜・rules

[brittle adder]

any way i can get a free sketchup pro account or bypassing it?

[hard blade]

Hey thank you so much. This helps. I apologize for the delay in response, work is maddening today.

[spiral notch]

not legally

obviously

[fleet solar]

I want to build an enterprise-grade lab with a machine with massive computing resources, with Hyper-V, where I can simulate an enterprise environment, including a DMZ to host my personal blog. Please share some network architecture ideas (with a diagram) with the minimum expected appliances and resources one would expect in an enterprise environment, and where in the architecture they would be placed.

[woven anvil]

And you are prepared to pay for the licensing for microsoft for that? O,o Thats crazy.

[fleet solar]

I use Windows 11 Pro, so I don't have to worry about licensing.

[woven anvil]

So just a home-grade lab then.

Biggest thing that gives you a "DMZ" and restricted network access is control over the firewall/router and switches.

Any tech, Hyper-v, Vmware, i think even virtualbox, qemu/virt-manager can all use vlans as well.

If you are looking to host it on IIS, then windows is a good choice. but if your Hyper-v guests are linux, then there is some weirdness to it a little bit.

[fleet solar]

I'm also virtualizing FWs within the lab. Are you able to share some weirdness you've experienced?

[woven anvil]

Using Generation 1 VMs sucks, Generation 2 is much better, but Secure boot will always get in your way.

On top of that, cloning linux OSes on hyper-v feels like it has to be done with a separate tool like clonezilla(or DD or however you wish it), instead of being able to clone something from the hypervisor. This makes templates pushing out from a single image, yet another thing you would have to learn somewhere else.(Netboot is great for this, put together with a debian answers file + DHCP data)

Where in something like a qemu, i can just copy the disk, make a new VM for it with new MAC addresses and such (or clone the VM in proxmox), and then update the hostname, and go from there.

When i think enterprise, i think like, clustering

Which i don't think you can do high availability in Windows 11 pro with hyper-v, and the Windows Pro license only licenses the host, not the VMs running on it.

Server Standard will license the host, and up to 2 Windows VMs running on it.

Server Datacenter is licensed based off the amount of cores in the host. This is the only one that supports clustering.

So if you choose to run a Domain Controller and such, then they will not be licensed

You can get 180 days of evaluation for any windows server, with 1 re-arm

Which, is really cool for learning how to set up migration for windows, for software lifecycle management

but was really annoying to deal with in a home lab

So TLDR: it should work fine, and will do what you need great, focus on how you do the networking, as that will be more imortant.

There are alternatives if you are just hosting linux VMs though.

[broken vale]

I need some help. I was wanting to enable xmp on my Alienware aurora r16 (I know it’s a crap pc but my buddy talked me into it)

Anywho, when I try to enter bios I get a complete black screen. So I figured I would try to do a fresh install of drivers, bam 💥 mouse and keyboard won’t work in safe mode.

I was like hmm maybe I’ll try a ps/2 mouse, another bam 💥 no ps/2 port on crapware aurora r16

Im swapping pc’s shortly soon as I build this next one but just trying to fool around on this one for now.

[fleet solar]

Thanks for sharing these understandings. What are the alternatives?

[fleet solar]

And do you have an architectural diagram of an enterprise-grade network that you can share? The idea is to spin up an open source equivalent of commercial appliances and use eval where necessary, such as for Windows AD.

[woven anvil]

• Proxmox - Based off Debian, KVM, and Qemu, you install it on a host, and are just left with a commandline login. You then access it's managent interface through a web browser, or through ssh since most of its functions are commandline compatible.
• xcp-ng - Based off Xen, this requires a dedicated VM running as a "Management Interface" that you access through the web. It is more contained than proxmox is, allowing for slightly less flexibility, but it looks nicer to some people.
• Virt-Manager - Using KVM and Qemu, you can install Virt-Manager onto any linux distro, and just run VMs on it. Imo, it is slightly more complicated to use this for a lot of advanced features, which are done for you and exposed in a nice web interface for the other two.

Proxmox + Virt-manager are completely free, xcp-ng is free, but they make you build XOA yourself (The web interface) unless you are paying them for support. Kind of annoying, but not the end of the world.

[woven anvil]

"BIOS" has nothing to do with the OS drivers. If you are using windows, then hold Shift when rebooting, and if you go through the menus enough, you should have the ability to access the "UEFI" or "Firmware", which will lead you to your UEFI settings app.(The world has moved away from BIOS, and instead moved to UEFI with legacy CSM support)

[broken vale]

@woven anvil I did hold shift when rebooted and that is when keyboard and mouse aren’t receiving power.

[woven anvil]

Are they plugged into a USB3? Maybe move them to a USB2

or vice versa

[broken vale]

I tried that, I might go get the oem keyboard and mouse from the attic and give a try.

[woven anvil]

try front, back

[broken vale]

Never had problems from this pc until I swapped to an aftermarket GPU

[woven anvil]

OH

[broken vale]

I haven’t tried front.

[woven anvil]

Do you have video out on the CPU?

what could be happening, is that when the BIOS loads, the video out on the GPU freezes, and the output comes out the CPU port instead.

[broken vale]

There’s no ports on mobo for video with AW

If that is what you’re saying.

[woven anvil]

Ok yeah, im looking at it now :/

[broken vale]

Please do puke, I know. It’s horrendous!

[woven anvil]

Then im not sure what else, unless its coming out a different than expected video port

But if you see the UEFI Settings screen, then it could be something USB related i guess?

Could try to clear the UEFI settings completely, and see if that fixes it

[heavy pebble]

someone send link for pentester site

[broken vale]

I’ve had less trouble from an apple laptop running windows than this junk.
Bout to replace my desk trash can with this pc.

[whole patio]

#👥・new-member-guide

[hard blade]

Another quick question. I'm switching to Linux finally. I see a lot of people cheering for Kali, and I see a lot of people cringing at Kali. Would Parrot OS be a better option for someone semi adept with Linux but decently new (a few months in learning daily)? And if ParrotOs, would home or security be a better option for someone still learning and not actually working in any IT capacity, let alone cybersec?

[dense skiff]

I’ll just say as someone with zero Linux experience I downloaded kali on my laptop a few days ago and it wasn’t difficult to get the basic apps and functions out of it, if that were any concern. Very usable gui and pre installed cyber related tools.

[chilly merlin]

Give kali a go

[hard blade]

@chilly merlin @dense skiff Thank you both! That's where I will start.

[grizzled cliff]

What’s the best roadmap to start working in Red Team: many people say I should start in Blue Team — can someone outline a plan to become a professional Red Teamer, including recommended certifications, courses, and hands-on experience?

[civic osprey]

#😈・pentesting message

[civic osprey]

kali's fine. It's just also debian based- and apt is a bit of a crap package manager.

All linux distros more or less work the same beyond package managers and repos, so it matters way less what distro you're using unless there's some feature unique/paid for with that distro.

For security I like arch based and nix based distros - arch has the newest packages and nix is effectively infrastructure as code. Hard to beat that

[chilly merlin]

#👥・new-member-guide

It's all in there

Most of it

Ur phone number?

Did u link it

Contact Gmail

Or Google support I meant

[civic osprey]

a failure to plan on your end does not necessitate emergency on others.

If you have not contacted google already, do so ASAP.

[chilly merlin]

Google support can't help
I have tried endlessly
Doesn't work

[chilly merlin]

Doesn't work

[civic osprey]

Then you keep trying them

[chilly merlin]

I can't help u any further then this

It's gone

[chilly merlin]

Okay
Thank you

[split jasper]

Good morning guys

[carmine oracle]

Night over here tho but hey

[scarlet thunder]

Hey guys I don't normally ask for assistance or anything like that. But I am lowkey kind of desperate at this point, so I want to ask if there is anyone who knows of any entry level jobs in cyber security or has any leads. To give some background I have a masters in cybersecurity, as well as my CompTIA Security +. I also finished Google's Cybersecurity Professional Certificate. If there isn't anything at the moment, do you guys happen to have any tips for me to hopefully land anything in the future? Thank you so much.

[brisk frost]

What are you aiming for generally?

[scarlet thunder]

Well I a have been actively applying for any NOC/SOC roles as well as any JR analyst roles. I just haven't had any luck but I'm super hopeful.

[brisk frost]

So you have a path you are interested in, that's good, keep applying, eventually they'll need someone somewhere, prepare for the interview, many sources this days to prepare and you'll be fine

Trust yourself

If you got any personal projects, they like those, if you think they are good enough to mention this could help

[scarlet thunder]

Thank you so much! I actually have been taking some free courses to prepare for interviews, I just haven't had the chance to have interviews. Buttt when I do I will be ready. Oh nice, I actually have some projects I'm pretty proud of. I will work on a github to showcase them.

[scarlet thunder]

^

[brisk frost]

Awesome

Also if you want any security job quickly maybe apply for more roles that you like

[glass sundial]

Where’s the safest place to download hiren to fix my laptop

[glass sundial]

🙏

[vague tusk]

can anyone helo us -- me an my team, on a cti project?

[verbal lynx]

My ex hacked and I dont have access to Security Setup and or he changed all that info a few years ago, I know he still gets on them to relive watching and looking at my pictures videos on the accounts he hacked (obviously these are the 1s Im hoping and asking for your help getting back). He won't give them Back it's been so long now he doesn't go on there much so I'm hoping you can help me figure out how Hack back into even 1 of my accounts preferably free or non expensively to get my password??....

[whole patio]

We're not helping you "hack back" anyone or anything #📜・rules no. 3
Go to the police, contact relevant service providers, set up stuff anew.

You are however now going to receive DMs from scammers on this server who will ask you for money to solve your problem. It's always a scam.

[hollow storm]

im new here i need help with my Gmail account
not even sure if it's possible

but need to recover it but all google options failed
so i joined hoping someone could help me out

[whole patio]

We're not helping you with that. #📜・rules You, too, are now going to get DMs from people looking out to scam you.

[hollow storm]

can i at least get a recommendation on who to ask privately
i really need this

[whole patio]

Whoever offers to help you, is going to try to scam you.

Thats all the help you can get

[crisp star]

At this point you probably got lots of DMs of people trying to scam you.

Don't expect that "hacking" is something that simple

[hollow storm]

than what must i do
advice?

[crisp star]

If the recovery options that Google offer doesn't work, then there is nothing you can do.

[whole patio]

If google support isn't going to help you, abandon the idea. It's gone for good

"I really need this" doesn't change a thing

Next time choose a mail account you can actually control 😉

[hollow storm]

😩 fuck!
aight thanks anyways

[crisp star]

Buy a domain and rent a mail server

[hollow storm]

rent a mail server??
is that possible

[whole patio]

Sure

[crisp star]

Time to get Protonmail

[hollow storm]

can i just explain the root of my problem exactly
i need to login on an app and change my mail to a new one

[whole patio]

We don't really care. See the thing is.. the default is that we don't believe a word you say. What you are asking for is just the same situation as if you were a creepy stalker looking to get access to another persons gmail account.
And we are not helping you or anyone else doing that. Also, everything you say and do on discord is recorded.. you can even ask discord for a copy of their files on you

Just forget about it

[hollow storm]

ohh hell No i promise you i'm the owner
if that's the reason for the rule than i can provide all the Proof needed

and please dont have me misunderstood with not following the rules
i know nothing about hacking

[hollow storm]

ayt man

[whole patio]

The reason for the rules is, apart from not believing you or anyone else, that what you are asking for is illegal to begin with. This isn't "your" gmail.. it is googles gmail. You are asking people to hack into google for some minor low level personal interest of yours. That you are doing it on a public forum, a server with over 100K people, that can get removed if we allow illegal topics to be discussed, is just the cherry on top.

[hollow storm]

wow didn't have all that well thought out

[whole patio]

This is like some guy showing up at your house and asks you to break into a bank, but its cool, cause he has a bank account there, and only wants his own money taken out

[hollow storm]

ayt man i get it 😂
i guess i'll just let it go

[whole patio]

Happy to help 😉

[spice dust]

But is there a way to get the person that hacked the account if that was the case

[whole patio]

That would be a case for law enforcement

[spice dust]

Ohhh aiit

[warm horizon]

Can anyone help me pls

I need to know abt what is devops and if i'm joing for devops wht kind of knowledge should i have pls advice and share your knowledge

[lost vapor]

https://tenor.com/view/you-can-google-it-gill-engvid-you-can-search-for-it-online-you-can-browse-for-it-on-the-web-gif-10409511348401384306

[warm horizon]

Not like that brother i'm looking for some experts opinions

[spiral notch]

literally Google has good info what

nobody else will explain devops better than Google

[whole patio]

They are not looking for expert knowledge, they are looking for a way not to read too much about it, if it can be avoided

[warm horizon]

That also partially correct

[brittle adder]

yeah not legal, thats why im asking guys here xD

[spiral notch]

yeah and we don’t help

with illegalities

[brittle adder]

dang

do u guys teach "how to do ethical haking" here?

[whole patio]

No
But you can do what we tell everyone, and look at #👥・new-member-guide

[molten bane]

any content recommendation for python beginners besides documentation? already know how to code in a few languages

[chilly merlin]

I didn't understand the question

[molten bane]

sorry, any good books/or sites that teaches python?

[desert wyvern]

Please I need someone's help please my ethernet cable doesn't work please I disconnect it and everything and it still doesn't go if someone can help me I would thank you please it's very urgent I've restarted the network I've done everything I've cleaned the dns cache and it still doesn't work

[feral lintel]

What does "doesn't work" look like exactly? Got a different cable handy to try?

[spiral notch]

harvard cs50 python video is decent

[whole patio]

Did it work before at some point?

[desert wyvern]

I've tried and it's the same

[desert wyvern]

Yes yesterday

[feral lintel]

And what happened since yesterday?

Please don't make us tear every piece of information out of you....

Cables can go bad, first thing I'd do is try another one

[desert wyvern]

Nothing br

[feral lintel]

Alright, good luck then

[desert wyvern]

I've already tried everything

[whole patio]

If you tried everything already, then there is nothing left to do.

There is no secret hacker knowledge to repair your cable

[molten bane]

aight i'll take a look, thanks!

[desert wyvern]

So what's the problem?

[desert wyvern]

I know

[whole patio]

You have a hard time grasping this... "I have this cable, and it doesn't work anymore, and I did nothing, and tried everything, so whats the solution?" is not the epic tale you think it is.
Probably just broken

try a different one

If it is anything else, than you have to provide the infos we would need.. but seems unlikely so far

[spiral notch]

ofc!

python is really easy

just learn the syntax

hot take but you can memorize and learn the syntax within a week if u have the dedication or ur a decently quick learner imo

the rest is just learning ot operate around libs and having knowledge in the other fields youd want to intergrate python into

for example you wont be able to send network requests without understanding how networking works, atleast the basic parts of it

yet with python its just reading a small docuentary and learning how to write 1-2 lines of code

[molten bane]

i did learned ruby for a while, it's kinda simillar no?

[feral lintel]

We could start with "what device do you have this problem with?",

[spiral notch]

meh

a lot of languages are similar

after you leran a few languages itll be easier to understand what your learning road will be like and imagining the syntax

but at the same time youre gonna have issues iwth similarities for example you might use ruby syntax in python r python syntax in ruby and stuff

the downside of knwoing more langs ig

i learnt 7 langs and it was a huge pain

(before i learnt to more or less manage it and filter out the languages i use more often)

[molten bane]

yeah, i've done that a couple of times already 😭

[hushed prairie]

hey silly questino maybe but has anyone had a lot of success with a particular kind of approach to finding people for a casual - in general kind of - IT study group if that makes any sense?

[chilly merlin]

OSINT?

[hushed prairie]

I know OSINT is relevant for pentesting afaik, i'm not sure if you're referring to that concept of OSINT in general, a tool with the same name etc?

[chilly merlin]

concept

[hushed prairie]

like basically i'm just talking about people that don't know but want to learn the same kind of things that I am am as well, as opposed to a study buddy for example which would be more so just two people doing their own thing invidiually together i guess

well, i guess i apprechiate your answer, fair enough

[chilly merlin]

thats more of a personal thing for people to do so idk if people will do it together

some ppl have malice to do it

[hushed prairie]

i guess so?

[chilly merlin]

so its quite dangerous as well

but plenty of resources to learn from

shodan is one site people use to do osint

idk if youd even call it that

[hushed prairie]

the whole intention originally is that I think it would be way more motivating to do than by oneself, and like, because its a personal thing thats why it seems harder to find someone to do this with as opposed to just a study buddy

[chilly merlin]

yeah

[hushed prairie]

also yeah i mean, i'm good with resources essentially the reading material its the easy bit

[chilly merlin]

#🕵・intel-and-investigation

people do some stuff in there

maybe you can find one

[spiral notch]

agreed

but lots find osint boring

[meager knot]

Is there a way to disable RECALL in windows 11 ?

a few of the tricks i've seen haven't worked.

Recall is with Copilot.... it takes screen shots of your desktop every so many seconds....

[chilly merlin]

Install Linux

[meager knot]

See, for me yes. but for the disabled people i help that wont work.

i'm already looking into GenToo Linux

[chilly merlin]

As a main os?

I read its not that easy to operate as a daily use system

[feral lintel]

Haven't looked into it too much yet, how does TinyWall do with that?

"stored locally" (for what it's worth), I see. Never mind then

[meager knot]

TinyWall is ok. i'm currently testing it.

you have to set it to AUTOLEARN or else you're not doing alot LOL.

[feral lintel]

it's tedious to setup manually, true. nice to think though that not everything and everybody can phone home all the time by default ^^

[meager knot]

so have i... i grew up on windows. i fix windows for people.. i just want to help make some of these crappy processors run a little better..

[red mesa]

Anyone here knows about automation like n8n, Zappier, Make, and AI? Is for my business. If someone knows please send me a DM.

[spiral notch]

we dont do hiring here

[red mesa]

I need help with the settings. I will do the work. Just to get started it. Or if a way to learn.

[spiral notch]

well then state what exactly you need

more specifically

[red mesa]

I do have Zoho CRM. I want to do an automation to connect my social media accounts, website, crm, WhatsApp business API and merchant or payment processor. I do everything manually and I spend around 2 hours a day. If I automate it, I save that a day.

[frigid knot]

Who wants to share the purpose of:
mm_struct
vm_area_struct
struct page
kmalloc
vmalloc

And why might Reverse engineers or exploit researchers care about these data structures?

[lethal yew]

Heyy

[spiral notch]

im sure google would love to

[lethal yew]

I am trying to use osint tool in kali Linux and I want to gather email of an account but I can't can anyone guide

[spiral notch]

what osint tool

why are u trynna get an email

what are u tyryinna fetch it form

[lethal yew]

Osintgram

Somebody made a fake account of my brother and I want to know who is behind this account

[feral lintel]

maybe just don't

hit up their support

[lethal yew]

Can anyone help me

[feral lintel]

it's illegal, so no

[lethal yew]

Any legal way

[feral lintel]

i recommend you move on with your life

[spiral notch]

no

none

onlyl illegals

[lethal yew]

He is defaming and just wanna know who is behind this

[feral lintel]

tough luck

reach out to support, block them, use the platform's methods

don't "hack the hacker"

[spiral notch]

• its ilelgal

[lethal yew]

Got it

[frigid knot]

I know the answers

[grim hearth]

Hi everyone so besides learning more about computers science ie. programming etc

Which platform would be the best to start with creating VFX videos etc. I wanna learn what code is used to understand this

[opaque elm]

hey guys I have a question
for these cybersecurity homelabs how can I set one up for pentesting

[opaque elm]

if you want to learn how to code I recommend learning python first

it was my first language

more so what do you plan on doing with Computer Science @grim hearth

[paper plinth]

Yo who can find out what tool this is ? Dm me if so

[paper plinth]

I can’t send ss here ..

[whole patio]

That is by design on this server

[woven anvil]

you can either run VMs on your main computer, or have a second computer dedicated to labs that you install something like a proxmox onto.

[woven anvil]

What would they be DMing you for?

[paper plinth]

I’m trynna find out what tool this is my friend is using to boot my website even when captcha on

[paper plinth]

Check dm

[opaque elm]

yes I was planning on getting a second computer

maybe a desktop

[woven anvil]

Something like a Proxmox would make it pretty easy then, although a hypervisor is another tool you have to learn how to use effectively, IMO its one of the best tools you can learn.

[opaque elm]

which computer should I get

[paper plinth]

I’d personally say a kali one ☝️ up to which u get tho fr

[opaque elm]

a kali computer?

I already have kali linux on this laptop

[woven anvil]

Any that supports virtualization. If you are buying something new, and its just for learning, you are free to get really any that will help.

Used servers work great, or mini-PCs if you don't have the space/electricity cost is too high.

With intel its called VT-d/VT-x

AMD-v for AMD devices

[paper plinth]

Then you’re good. Or just get a custom built PC in general with hella ram/cpu

[opaque elm]

yea ima jst get a reasosnably priced pc

[rancid haven]

guys , i updated my kali VM 2025.3 and suddenly ma mouse cursor is disappeared but i am still able to like interact without UI of OS.

[opaque elm]

which pc should I get though @woven anvil

[woven anvil]

Theres always companies getting rid of old servers, so those work. Aliexpress has mini-PCs.
Just look for a decent CPU, then replace the RAM with more RAM, and the disk with a 1 or 2 TB SSD.

[rancid haven]

anyone have a solution for this ?

[opaque elm]

i do prefer new since with used idk if its messed up

beyond repiar

[rancid haven]

Anyone knows how to fix the mouse disappearing issue on VMware instances after a system update?
Windows Host Kali VM

[woven anvil]

Typically only the HDD/SSD would be considered a consumable (and the CMOS battery if we want to be pedantic), so normally that is all you have to worry about, as long as the machine boots, and the BIOS shows the correct information (CPU, RAM, whatever).

Buying from Sellers that have shown to be reputable, and offer like a "30 days exchange/support" if there are defects is a good way to ensure you don't normally get issues like the ones you are thinking of.

Or you are really that worried, Aliexpress has mini-PCs of various prices and strengths. I think people really like Beelinks a lot.

[woven anvil]

quick google....
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1311031/when-i-move-mouse-mouse-cursor-disappears-and-reappears-how-to-fix-it

[opaque elm]

what about bestbuy

[woven anvil]

Then normally the price is high, and the value is low.

Building it yourself, or going to a shop where you can pick the parts to build it would give you something new, and have the things you would specifically want/be able to choose

[serene slate]

he yall, I am in college, and studying Cybersecurity. We are going kind of slow which is why I am trying to do things on my own time. I will start with linux, but there is so much things, it overwhelming. I wish to be a cyber officer in the military. i wanted to ask how did yall go on starting out and how much time did you put into it? i am trying, but theres is to many different thing i don't know where to start. right now, I started the HTB Linux fundamentals, but is there any other way? I am in the university's cyber club, and we mostly do CTFs there is are kind of confusing to me. I want to get to red team or purple.

[woven anvil]

Pretend its the 1980s, grab a computer, install a linux, and just play with it.
Honestly, its the fastest way.

or learn how VMs work if you don't have another computer to use for this

[serene slate]

I think I will go with virtual since I only have one computer

the biggest question is which linux? I will also how to look up how to install

aslo, how will I just play with it?

[woven anvil]

If learning fast is your goal, do Arch.
If just exploring something already made is more what you are looking to do, then any of them, it doesn't really matter.
This is a good breakdown. #👥・help-me message

Find a bunch of different apps and games built into it, learn how both the command-line and GUI works.

Arch is recommended because their Wiki is "the best resource" for understanding the individual apps that make up the OS.

[serene slate]

great, but the biggest challenge is the command line right?

how did you all start?

Hey, Im sure most of you didn't have HTB or THM, so how did you start? And do you think those 2 are the best resources?

[woven anvil]

The biggest challenge is unlearning the "i have to use a GUI" mentality.

The commandline isn't actually that hard. people of all ages were able to learn it no problem in the 80s and 90s. Its the fear that will keep you from practicing using it.

Back then, a computer just came with a book that showed you some basic commands, and how to program in BASIC

In this case, Arch Linux Wiki(which has been around for a pretty long time now), shows you how to use the commands/OS, while other tools like SoloLearning or Codedex can help give an introduction to basic scripting/programming.

The real answer would be to just read the official documentation for whatever you are trying to use. Bash, which is the most common command-line shell that you use, has it's official manual here. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html

[serene slate]

thanks

[civic osprey]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

tbh if you're on windows first you probably want to give windows subsystem for linux (WSL) a try. Since wsl2 it's gotten way better, and you can try out different linux distros with it - at least the terminal functionality with it.

No gui support afaik- but it's a great learning tool if you've never actually used linux before.

I wouldn't worry about distros - all linux distros more or less operate the same once you take out their different package managers and source repos. Arch is the most bleeding edge and best way to learn linux deeply - but it's also going to be painful learning.

For just adoption - particularly if windows is your comfort zone, linux mint is a good option since it's made to be very similar to windows

[slow edge]

Good work brother 🧡 I love when members are supportive to each other, keep it up!

[civic osprey]

teaching keeps me young UwU

[mental narwhal]

This is simple if you follow my steps and thank me later.

🧰 Step 1: Restart Display or Input Service

Open a terminal using keyboard shortcuts:

Ctrl + Alt + T
Then run:

sudo systemctl restart gdm

or, if you’re using XFCE:

sudo systemctl restart lightdm

If that doesn’t help, reboot:

sudo reboot

---

🧩 Step 2: Reinstall or Update Guest Additions / Tools

If you’re using a VM:

For VirtualBox:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-x11 -y
sudo reboot

For VMware:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop -y
sudo reboot

These restore proper mouse and display integration.

---

⚙️ Step 3: Reconfigure Mouse Settings

If the cursor still doesn’t show:

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-all -y
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-input-all
sudo reboot

---

🧠 Optional (Manual Cursor Fix)

If you’re using XFCE or GNOME and the cursor is invisible (but functional):

gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme

or manually pick a new one from:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

---

🧼 Step 4: If All Fails

Try resetting your display config:

mv ~/.config ~/.config_backup
reboot

This will force Kali to recreate your desktop config and should bring the cursor back.

[slow edge]

Jesus 😆

[civic osprey]

lol looks like chet jippity output

[jaunty wadi]

me when i use chatgpt

[civic osprey]

lol you should never just remove $XDG_CONFIG_HOME like that.

that is a recipe for disaster

[mental narwhal]

Lol

[slow edge]

Chatgpt brother 🥲

GPT can do anything

Ask GPT how to secure my windows
It will give an option to remove /windows/system32

[woven anvil]

gross

[civic osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQNyYx2fZXw&t=11s

My understanding is it's pronounced "chet jippity" 🤷‍♂️

~/.config aka $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is user space

it can override /etc for configs, but not sure on ubuntu if boot params can be overriden by $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

I'm saying you should understand how the XDG directory system works and the different expectations of user space vs system level configs

https://github.com/qompassai/arch
https://github.com/qompassai/dotfiles

Repo 1 is some of my arch config - notice how it has stuff set in /etc? that' ssytem level configs.

the second is my dotfiles, which are my configs for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, ie my user space configs.

I put stuff like ~/.config/modprobe.d but i don't expect that to overwrite /etc/modprobe.d because that's not typical path for the system to pick kernel params from.

So you need to understand what can and can't be overwritten

kernel configs are typically in /usr/lib/modules for distros like debian/arch/ubuntu

if you're using dkms they may be in /etc/dkms.

Those still follow xdg conventions, just for system level

and this is addressing another root level dir, ie /boot.

Like it says you'll probably want to run

journalctl -b

to find out what happened from the boot up to identify the issue.

I trust system outputs, I don't trust users UwU - cuz you don't know what you don't know

[keen pewter]

guys do you know why in my certificate setting a16 samsung device keep installing a certificate which i dont know when i delete it my phone works so much faster is it anyone is hacked my phone or sth ?

[whole patio]

Which cert?

Looking at your previous questions though.. nevermind

[opaque elm]

what parts should I get though?

[chilly merlin]

No idea

Probably just factory reset ur phone

[molten bane]

that might be a dumb question but, do you guys have any tips for documenting theorical/pratical content? sometimes i don't even understand my notes kinda need to re-read a couple of times to summarize well 😭

[chilly merlin]

Like when ur doing stuff on the terminal and u wanna document it? That sorta stuff?

[whole patio]

Imagine you are part of a study group, or have to present the stuff to a class, when you either write it down, or when you go over it again

Try to write it, like you write for other people

[molten bane]

sure, something like that

[molten bane]

that's a good advice, i'll try that, thanks!

[median wigeon]

Hello everyone

Please can anyone guide me on how to hack a WiFi router on android device
I want to try to hack my neighbors WiFi , please 🥺🙏

[jaunty wadi]

not possible without wifi adapter

and specific OS that supports wifi attacks like nethunter

furthermore you wont hack your neighbors wifi, its not as simple as it used to be since WPA3, you'll just end up wasting your time

[chilly merlin]

Hello folks, new here. This server looks awesome and I hope to learn more on cyber level. Im planning to train in both blue and red team settings, basics first. But I would like to ask if someone can give some advice on how to start properly and with what.

I already got a set up with raspberry Pi's running parrot security and one with Kali Linux. And a laptop running parrot aswell.

Soon I will buy a Thinkpad with Parrot security.

My current experience is just testing around and trying things like network scans and the meaning of all of it

Thanks in advance 🫡

[median wigeon]

Do you have any other ways of doing it ?

[jaunty wadi]

an evil twin attack is still viable but you would need a computer for that, wouldnt work on an android

[median wigeon]

Ohh okay

[median wigeon]

Are you on WhatsApp, so that I can chat you up to teach me , or are you going to teach me here ?

[jaunty wadi]

no,

nobody is going to give you their phone number to contact them on whatsapp

furthermore i cannot teach you anything if you dont have the requirements, which would be 2 wifi adapters that have chips in them that allow monitor mode and packet injection

and an actual laptop/computer

[median wigeon]

Ohh okay
Where can I buy the two WiFi adapters

[jaunty wadi]

amazon

[median wigeon]

Okay, do you also know how to hack into a friend phone, have been suspecting her with my bf

[jaunty wadi]

what phone do they have

[median wigeon]

Readmi 15c

[jaunty wadi]

they'd need to allow unknown apps to be installed then install and open some malicious APK file

[chilly merlin]

illegal stuff is not to discuss in here

[median wigeon]

That should be easy for me to confuse that to install the app

[median wigeon]

🥺

[jaunty wadi]

cool

[median wigeon]

What next

[jaunty wadi]

buy server to host, build malware apk
install malicious apk app
done

[median wigeon]

How can I build malware apk

[jaunty wadi]

find android malware go look on google

[median wigeon]

Ok , I will get back to you

[limpid shoal]

How about iphone user

[jaunty wadi]

not possible iOS is too locked down

[woven anvil]

Please read our #📜・rules
You seem to have shown up and only asked about malicious things.

[split harness]

Hey. I'm absolutely new to hacking. Consider me an absolute amateur. You could make fries with my laptop, that's how potato it is. Help. Where do I start?

[woven anvil]

Learn the basics of Networking, OSes and Programming. See what you like the most, then come back, and we can point you to more resources.
Tryhackme is a great place to get an introduction to all of those things.
#👥・new-member-guide

[split harness]

Thank you

[jaunty wadi]

contact apple

[woven anvil]

@mighty quail
You have been told to read the #📜・rules already.

[chilly merlin]

😂

[signal rune]

Hey Guys!
Which virtual machine do you guys recommend for an m3 16gb ram macbook air?
If there are no good compatible virtual machines then please recommend me a decent budget windows laptop.
Thank you!

[frigid knot]

Circling back to this.

Error logs:

PCI: OF: of_root node is NULL, cannot create PCI host bridge node.
Warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/f83... does not exist

/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt shows dracut-initqueue stuck in a perpetual loop and a warning related to /dev/disk/by-uuid/(ext4 partition uuid for my instance's root file system) and /run/systemd/generator/systemd-cryptsetup@*.service

Troubleshooting:
Previous two chatters in this channel recommended I

• Start with minimal config using make defconfig
• Be aware of how .config values are used and overridden

I've since re-generated .config values using make defconfig in my linux kernel source dir (~/linux),

Ran make cmds:

Build kernel:
make -j$(nproc)

Install modules:
make modules_install

Install kernel:
make install

Regenerate initramfs:
update-initramfs -u -k 6.18.0-rc1-(git hash value here)

Verifying Kernel Configuration:
In the initramfs emergency shell that I fall into after attempting to boot into the new kernel from GRUB menu, I can check the kernel configuration with gzip -cd /proc/config.gz | less

I've confirmed the following config in the emergency shell:
CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y
CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""

Previous (working) kernel/ubuntu instance:

• Noticed that the root file system disk partition UUID matches the UUID shown in the PCI OF error/warning message during new kernel boot failure.

Other things I noticed in emergency shell:

• no by-uuid dir in /dev/disk/*, only a dir called /dev/disk/by-diskseq
• blkid in emergency shell returns nothing

(To be continued in next msg)

[woven anvil]

I don't use a mac, but i believe Oracle's VirtualBox and the open source project UTM are available.

[clear plaza]

sigh

someone's hacked my email 🙁

[lost goblet]

dont you have 2FA ?

[clear plaza]

I do actually

and i regularly change my passwords

i recently got my first entry level IT Help Desk job and it sucks that this happened when im about to send PII over to them

[woven anvil]

it means someone was watching for some time

[clear plaza]

ahh shit

[rugged cairn]

Don't panic
It's recoverable

[woven anvil]

Contact Google for recovery.

[clear plaza]

i learned that through trying to send myself an ET and it had a name i didnt recognize (not my own) so i looked and saw i recieved no notification on it so i figgured they did something i proabbly only know cause i watch @minor blade 's vids

[woven anvil]

Or whoever your email provider is