Objectives: Learn how password based encryption protects files such as PDFs and zip archives Learn how weak passwords make encrypted files vulnerable Learn how attackers use dictionary and ...

Today I will be going through the basics of malware analysis. I’ll also be noting some theory on how to think when performing malware analysis In this scenario, employee’s have received a an email...

What is Hydra? Hydra is a brute force online password cracking program, a quick system login password “hacking” tool. Hydra can run through a list and brute force some authentication services. We...

I will just be documenting some fundamentals for SQL databases here. I will be creating a database for an inventory of books and organizing it into a table. Database and Table Statements I organi...

Objective: Hack into a Windows machine, leveraging common misconfiguration issues Recon First I ran nmap with some specific flags: nmap -sV -sC --script vuln -oN blue.nmap 10.201.48.102 The ...

Throughout the tasks in this room, I will be using the following: The “Jumbo John” version of John the Ripper The RockYou password list Cracking Basic Hashes The basic syntax of John the...

Hashing is used for securing passwords in authentication systems. I was given some hashes to crack on TryHackMe, so I thought I’d document how I cracked them here Question: Use hashcat to cra...

Nmap can be used to discover live hosts on a network. There are a few ways to specify its targets: IP range using - : if you want to scan all IP addresses from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.10...

Today I went through the TCPDump room. The goal of the room is to learn how to use tcpdump to: Capture packets and save them to a file Set filters on captured packets Control how captured p...

Another issue I’ve run into with Windows 11 is after some time, File Explorer begins to be unresponsive and slow. Lots of hangtime in loading and the program will stop responding. The solution tha...