Category: penetration testing
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How I passed OSCP on my first attempt
My main goal while at university was to achieve my OSCP before graduating in 2023, obviously this would be hard and it would take a lot of time and dedication to achieve but in September I had finally passed my OSCP on my first attempt. Preparation Before I started OSCP I had to do a…
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Studying for OSCP
I have just finished with my 2nd year of university and thought that the summer would be a good time to start my OSCP journey. As a lot of you may know OSCP is one of the essential certifications for a career in pentesting and because of this it has been my goal to achieve,…
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HTB-Netmon
Difficulty-Easy Link-https://app.hackthebox.com/machines/netmon Enumeration First I conducted an nmap scan of the machine. The nmap scan shows us that ftp,smb and a webserver is running. I quickly checked the website as well to see if there is any information there. Getting user.txt Now as the ftp allows anonymous login I decided to check that for the…
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THM-Simple CTF
Description-Beginner level ctf Difficulty-Easy Link-https://tryhackme.com/room/easyctf Enumeration I started with a nmap scan using the tags ‘-A’ and ‘-T4’ which would give me a quick thorough scan of the machine I then went through the ftp server logging in as anonymous and retried the ForMitch.txt file. This file talks about someone called Mitch who is using…
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THM-RootMe
Description-A ctf for beginners, can you root me? Difficulty-Easy Link-https://tryhackme.com/room/rrootme Enumeration I started with an nmap scan of the target to discover what ports were running and what services. I used the -sC and -sV flags which would find service and version info about the open ports and nmap will run a default script too.…
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My eJPT Review
eJPT or the ‘eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester’ is a practical certification based on penetration testing in which you will be tasked to conduct a penetration test on some black boxes. In October I decided that it would be a good idea to try to get a certification so that I could test my skills and…
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An Introduction
This is a start to my blog and I have made it to help me document my own progress and to help others who may be like me. My name is Matthew and I am a university student in the uk studying Computer Security (Basically just cyber security), I am interested in red teaming and…
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