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10 Things I Learnt in My First Year as a Penetration Tester

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10 Things I Learnt in My First Year as a Penetration Tester

A reflective look back on what my first year as penetration tester/cyber security consultant taught me, and how those lessons can potentially help you.

Exploiting Active Directory Certificate Services - ESC11 Walkthrough

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Exploiting Active Directory Certificate Services - ESC11 Walkthrough

An overview and lab exploitation example of the ESC11 vulnerability, present in Active Directory Certificate Services when request encryption is disabled.

Hack the Box Walkthroughs: Hathor

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Hack the Box Walkthroughs: Hathor

Hathor from Hack the Box was an Insane Windows machine that involves exploiting a misconfigured file upload, then identifying credentials in log files, before performing some DLL hijacking and finally, abusing an account with replication rights to obtain the administrator's password hash.

Automating the Creation of TCM Security's PEH Home Active Directory Labs - It's Terra-fying

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Automating the Creation of TCM Security's PEH Home Active Directory Labs - It's Terra-fying

A guide on how to terraform the Active Directory Home Lab from the Practical Ethical Hacking course by TCM Security - and coincidentally - My first attempt at Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps!

Hack the Box Walkthroughs: Anubis - Using SliverC2

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Hack the Box Walkthroughs: Anubis - Using SliverC2

In an attempt to broaden my skill set, I'll be using the SliverC2 to complete Hack the Box machines and learn more about this fantastic Command and Control framework. This time around it's the retired box: Anubis!