Overview# RootMe is a short, beginner-friendly CTF on TryHackMe with a ranking of “Easy”. It’s a good complement to practice your skills learned during the “Complete Beginner” learning pathway, which I recommend completing before attempting this challenge. As usual, direct answers will be hidden in this guide. You can...

Overview# This Marvel-themed, multi-stage CTF is one of TryHackMe’s Offensive Pentesting rooms with a difficulty rating of “Hard”. Some highlights include brute-forcing passwords, SQL injection, and exploiting website templates. Answers in this guide will be hidden or blurred out, as normally. You can find the link to...

Overview# This Terminator-themed CTF is one of TryHackMe’s Offensive Pentesting rooms, with a ranking of “Easy”. Exploiting Samba and file inclusion vulnerabilities are some of the highlights here. Direct answers will be hidden in this guide, but before continuing, I recommend that you try hacking this machine without...

The Cost of the Cloud# One of my recent projects was to migrate some testing servers from on-premises to Amazon EC2. There were valid reasons for doing so, with the most pressing being to offload the testing workload to the cloud. Testing isn’t run 24/7, so those machines don’t need to be online all the time taking up...

What is TryHackMe?# TryHackMe (or THM for short) is a mostly free (will come back to this shortly), online platform designed for learning cybersecurity, with a focus on hands-on exercises. It has pre-built learning pathways depending on your security knowledge and what path you’d like to explore in cybersecurity. Each...