Hacking Xmas
2020
jakec / December 2020
TryHackMe's Advent of Cyber 2020 was more fun than any Christmas-themed tutorial series had any right to be. Thanks to all of THM's incredibly hard working room creators, testers, community moderators, and fellow Discord lurkers for such a wonderful month. I attempted to write up the challenges as plainly as possible with the hope that even people with a passing knowledge of tech could pick up a few things. Please check 'em out below and send adoring letters afterwards to jake cleland at gmail.
day 1: setting up the environment, manipulating cookies
day 2: GET requests, IP addressing, and just what is a port anyway
day 3: brute forcing with burp suite
days 4+5: databases and sql injection
day 7: what's a ping? what's a packet? making friends w/ wireshark
day 8: learning nmap, as seen in: the matrix reloaded!
day 11: SUID binaries, aka escalate ALL the privileges
day 12: make hacking easy with metasploit