PancakesCon is an excellent community online conference that I wish to never see again. It first began as an impromptu, virtual hacker con in March 2020 as a result of the closure of all the in-person conferences. Now in its 3rd rendition as we enter the 3rd year of the pandemic, it continues to be …

This series will follow my exercises in HackTheBox. All published writeups are for retired HTB machines. Whether or not I use Metasploit to pwn the server will be indicated in the title. Magic Difficulty: Medium Machine IP: 10.10.10.79 While I used a Meterpreter shell to gain an initial foothold on …

This series will follow my exercises in HackTheBox. All published writeups are for retired HTB machines. Whether or not I use Metasploit to pwn the server will be indicated in the title. Sunday Difficulty: Easy Machine IP: 10.10.10.76 It takes about half an hour for the full port scan to complete. …