Challenge Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/madness Madness: the CTF Challenge from Optional that is true to its name. This room is infuriating; but all the more fun because of it. Madness is ranked as being easy, which is apt because as far as hacking techniques go, this box isn’t hugely difficult. In terms of puzzles, on the other hand… Well, let’s just say that Optional is an evil genius. If you would prefer to do the puzzles by yourself then I would suggest…
Challenge Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/lazyadmin LazyAdmin is a Linux challenge box on TryHackMe. Written by MrSeth6797, this room is designed to be a relatively relaxed challenge to practice with. There is nothing particularly unusual or extreme about the LazyAdmin box — which is exactly how it should be for a gentle practice challenge. Let’s get started! Enumeration: The first stage of this challenge is, as normal, enumeration. We’ll start by running a pretty standard nmap scan to see what ports are open…
Challenge Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/25daysofchristmas Day One — Inventory Management: The first part of the Christmas 2019 challenge on TryHackMe is a web application that’s vulnerable to cookie hijacking. The challenge comes with a Google Doc which covers the basics of how websites are run and how cookies work. If you’re struggling, I would suggest reading that first. So, the first challenge: If you deploy the provided VM and navigate to the URL (http://<your_machines_ip>:3000), you will be shown a login screen asking for a…