OverTheWire Bandit: Level 11 to Level 12
The Goal The password is in data.txt but all letters have been rotated by 13 positions — ROT13. Decode it. What I Did I knew from the description that this was ROT13 and that tr was the right to...
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TryHackMe Pre-Security: Module 1 — Introduction to Cyber Security
Overview First module of TryHackMe’s Pre-Security path done. Four rooms, all introductory — most of the concepts weren’t new to me after completing CS50 Cybersecurity, but this was the first time ...
OverTheWire Bandit: Level 10 to Level 11
The Goal The password is stored in data.txt as base64 encoded data. Decode it. What I Did Checked the man page for base64 to find the decode flag: bandit10@bandit:~$ man base64 Found -d for d...
OverTheWire Bandit: Level 9 to Level 10
The Goal Find the password in data.txt — stored in one of the few human-readable strings, preceded by several = characters. What I Did The level mentioned “human-readable strings” which immediat...
OverTheWire Bandit: Level 8 to Level 9
The Goal Find the one line in data.txt that appears only once. Every other line is a duplicate. What I Did Listed the file and opened it with cat. Hundreds of lines of what looked like random pa...
OverTheWire Bandit: Level 7 to Level 8
The Goal Find the password stored in data.txt next to the word millionth. What I Did Listed the directory to confirm the file: bandit7@bandit:~$ ls data.txt Tried reading it with cat: bandit...
OverTheWire Bandit: Level 6 to Level 7
The Goal Find a file stored somewhere on the entire server with these properties: Owned by user bandit7 Owned by group bandit6 33 bytes in size What I Did I knew the filters from the pre...
OverTheWire Bandit: Level 5 to Level 6
The Goal Find a file somewhere under inhere that is: Human-readable Exactly 1033 bytes in size Not executable What I Did Navigated into inhere and listed the contents: bandit5@bandit:~/...
OverTheWire Bandit: Level 4 to Level 5
The Goal The password is stored in the only human-readable file inside the inhere directory. There are ten files. I need to find which one is readable without opening each one manually. What I Di...
I Just Finished Harvard's CS50 Cybersecurity — Here's What I Actually Learned
A few weeks ago I started Harvard’s CS50 Introduction to Cybersecurity. I’m a second-year BS Cybersecurity student at FAST NUCES Islamabad, so I wasn’t going into it completely blind — but I came o...