Optimum is a vulnerable virtual machine created by ch4p on HackTheBox. In this post, we document a complete walkthrough of pwning this machine. Enumeration Nmap Starting off with the nmap scan, ...

Devel is a vulnerable virtual machine created by ch4p on HackTheBox. In this post, we document a complete walkthrough of pwning this machine. Enumeration Nmap Starting off with the nmap scan, we...

Blue is a vulnerable virtual machine created by ch4p on HackTheBox. In this post, we document a complete walkthrough of pwning this machine. Enumeration Nmap Starting off with the nmap scan, we ...

Legacy is a vulnerable virtual machine created by ch4p on HackTheBox. In this post, we document a complete walkthrough of pwning this machine. Enumeration Nmap Starting off with the nmap scan, w...

Sometimes after an update, burp fails to show rendered response when we click the Render tab. Instead there will be an error message in it, saying “Embedded browser initialization failed”. That’s b...

Wayland is a newer protocol intended to replace X. Gnome has ported to Wayland and used it as default for some time. In recent versions of GDM login screen, there should be three options: GNOME...

Recently there was a weird issue with my Arch Linux VM. Shared folders can be mounted with the following command manually: vmhgfs-fuse -o allow_other -o auto_unmount .host:/<shared_folder> &l...

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf $ vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Set the tear free option: Section "OutputClass" Identifier "Intel Graphics" MatchDriver "i915" Driver "intel...

Edit /etc/makepkg.conf $ vim /etc/makepkg.conf Parallel compilation: MAKEFLAGS="-j$(nproc)" Parallel compression: COMPRESSXZ=(xz -c -z - --threads=0) # 0 for as many cores as possible COMPRESSG...

This is the first time I use MSF on other systems than Kali. And currently there is some issue with msfdb scripts, so I’m gonna set it up manually. Let’s get started. $ sudo pacman -S postgresql me...