CTF Guide: Overpass 2 - Hacked

Overview# Overpass 2 - Hacked is the second CTF in the Overpass series on TryHackMe, and this scenario has you helping to recover a website that’s been hacked! You’ll have to analyze a packet capture (PCAP) file with Wireshark to figure out how the attacker got in, then you need to hack back into the server to regain...

CTF Guide: RootMe

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...

CTF Guide: The Daily Bugle

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...

CTF Guide: Skynet

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...

How To: Save $1,000+ on your AWS Bill

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...