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Hack the Box Walkthrough – Optimum

By rob flemen March 28, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, HTB, Linux, Metasploit, Networking, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

Hack The Box walkthrough of a machine called Optimum. It involves exclusive use of the Metasploit Framework this time and I even show you how to use MSF's local exploit suggester to escalate privileges . The focus for the foothold is CVE-2014-6287. We then let Metasploit do its thing…

Offsec Proving Grounds Walkthrough – Exghost

By rob flemen March 21, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Offsec, Python, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

New OffSec Proving Grounds walkthrough. This time we tackle a machine called Exghost. This walkthrough involves:

Brute forcing credentials

Reading through a Wireshark packet capture file

Crafting a malicious image to exploit ExifTool

Exploiting a kernel vulnerability I had to get creative at the end and I leaned a bunch…

Certification Review – ISC2 System Security Certified Professional – SSCP

By rob flemen March 14, 2025Certification Exams, ISC2, Review, Security

Hey there New Video Day! This video is my review of the ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP). The resources I used to study were Mike Chapple's LinkedIn Learning course and his study guide I bought off Amazon (highly recommend both!). It's a great exam and you will learn a…

Hack the Box Walkthrough – Cicada

By rob flemen March 7, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, HTB, Linux, Networking, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

This is a walkthrough of the Hack The Box machine called "Cicada". I learned a lot about Active Directory tackling this one. It features the use of tools like:

nxc

pypykatz

evil-winrm

***SPOILERS***

-- I show you how to pwn the box, so if you don't want…

How to Decrypt an Ansible Vault

By rob flemen February 28, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Security, Tutorial

In this video I explain how to decrypt and Ansible vault using several tools like ansible2john, hashcat, and ansible-vault. There are several steps that need to be followed in order to successfully decrypt an Ansible vault and I lay them all out here for you. Hope this help and let…

Walkthrough – Offsec Proving Grounds – Astronaut

By rob flemen February 21, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Metasploit, Networking, Offsec, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

New video - OffSec Proving Grounds Walkthrough of "Astronaut". This was an interesting box that we use many tools an techniques to pwn including Metasploit Framework, PHP reverse shell, and GTFObins! This is a complete walkthrough of the machine so don't watch the video unless you want help compromising the…

Multithreaded Port Scanner

By rob flemen February 19, 2025Coding, Python, Security, Tutorial

I am FAR from a developer so go easy on me. This is an attempt at a multithreaded port scanner. I have it down to about 40 seconds to scan all 65,535 port (using my PC). The threading was obviously the hard part and I relied on several code examples…

Certification Review – Cisco CyberOps Associate (Cisco Cybersecurity Associate)

By rob flemen February 14, 2025Certification Exams, Cisco, Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Networking, Review, Security

This is my review of the Cisco CyberOps Associate exam/certification. The cert was rebranded to the Cisco Cybersecurity Associate by Cisco in January. I give you my overall impressions of the exam and how I prepared for it using the official study guide and CBT Nuggets. Keith Barker and Robert…

Hack the Box Walkthrough – Manager

By rob flemen February 8, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, HTB, Linux, Networking, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

New video! This video is a walkthrough of the Hack The Box machine called "Manager". It features the use of tools like:

kerbrute

certipy-ad,

mssqlclient.py

I learned a lot about Active Directory tackling this one. ***SPOILERS*** I show you how to pwn the box, so…

”How to Generate Shellcode withmsfvenom”

By rob flemen February 2, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Metasploit, msfvenom, Networking, Offsec, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

This is a follow up video to the Offsec Proving Grounds walkthrough of "Kevin". I show you how to modify an exploit that possibly may not be working for you by generating a new shellcode payload. I learned a ton after being challenged by a viewer of the Kevin video…