Overthewire - Bandit - 4-5

Level 4-5: This was another exercise on precise use of special characters and directory commands. Very similar to the last two.

Overthewire - Bandit - 3-4

In this exercise, I had to change directory by naming the directory explicitly.  Once in there, the 'ls' command did not list the file, so I had to use the 'find' command.  The file itself began with a '.' and a '/' so it was a bit tricky to get to (for a newbie).  But once I did 'cat ./...Hiding-From-You' (I actually copied and pasted the exact file name), it opened without a hitch. 

Overthewire - Bandit - Level 0

In this video, I learned how to login to a remote server using SSH and tackled a CTF on Overthewire.org. I also tried out Parrot for the first time.

HackTheBox - HTTP Requests and Responses

Today I spent time working with HacktheBox on the exercise for HTTP Requests and Responses.  I was given an exercise to again use cURL to get information about a server.  This server happened to be using Apache version 2.4.41 and I learned that in order to use the "GET" method, no additional command was needed with cURL as it is the default method. 

Below you can see how I went through the exercise (without sound so you do not hear my 7 year old in the background ☺).

Learning the cURL Command

Today I was introduced to the cURL command to download the .php file for a HacktheBox exercise.  I was using the HTB tutorial but I wanted to use Kali to do the exercise as I currently understand, Kali is the most commonly used distro used by pen-testers. I successfully download the file, located the flag and completed the exercise. 

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What did I do?

What did I learn?

In what situations might this knowledge be useful.

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