Last week I attempted the CPTS exam. It was, without a doubt, the hardest exam I have ever taken and I do not think it is close. The exam takes you...

Conversor is an easy Linux machine from Hack The Box. Foothold is a bit tricky if you are unfamiliar with XML and skip over small details. We get a...

Buffer overflows are not as common anymore thanks to safer coding practices and the adoption of secure programming languages like Python and Java, ...

Expressway is an easy Linux box. A quick nmap shows that the only TCP port that is open is SSH, which limits our attack path significantly. Looking...

Over the last two weeks, I finally completed the Dante ProLab. which focuses on red team operations. This lab simulates a real company network. Eac...

Soulmate is an easy Linux machine which starts off by showing a dating site which lets us create a user, this box has some rabbit holes which is a ...

TombWatcher is a medium difficulty active directory box. It is an assumed breach box, thus we are given credentials, in this case for the henry use...

Sauna is an easy Windows AD machine. This machine is running a website on port 80 which contains some team member names which can be used to genera...

EscapeTwo is an easy assumed breached Active Directory machine. We are provided credentials for the user Rose which has access to the Accounting De...

Heal is a medium difficulty Linux machine. This box only has two TCP ports open, ssh and http. The webpage has three different subdomains. One of t...