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Building a Hack Lab For Free: Part 1
Overview A frequently asked question is "How do I practice?". Well today we're going to show you how to safely create your own hack lab environment completely free on a Windows machine. You can do this on a *nix or even OSX, VirtualBox supports any of them and is the...
OvertheWire – Bandit 12
Recap of Level 11: Learned how to decode strings that have been obfuscated by base64 Bandit Level 12 Objective: Find the password to the next level Intel Given: Password is in data.txt The password has been changed where all lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z)...
OvertheWire – Bandit 11
Recap of Level 10: We pulled information out of a data file using the 'strings' command. Bandit Level 11 Objective: Find the password to the next level Intel Given: The password is stored in the file data.txt The password is encoded with base64 How to: We now...
Using Digital Ocean to Host OpenVPN
There's a reason why Digital Ocean is listed under my Recommended page. You can spin up a server in 60 seconds for less than a dollar a week. What this means to the aspiring hacker or network security professional is that a very minimal fee you can host a variety of...
OvertheWire – Bandit 10
Recap of Level 9: Learned about the sort and uniq commands and went a little further into how to use I/O redirection. Bandit Level 10 Objective: Find the password to the next level Intel Given: Password is in data.txt Password is among the few lines of...
OvertheWire – Bandit 9
Recap of Level 8: Used grep to search for our password from a large text file. Bandit Level 9 Objective: Find the password to the next level Intel Given: The password is located in data.txt The password is the only line that occurs once How to: Reading the file...
