This post is about the Hack The Box machine, Authority. I start off with a port scan to discover various services running on the machine. After enumerating SMB, I find encrypted Ansible strings for...

Recently, I decided to sign up for Hack The Box’s Pro labs subscription to challenge myself to explore scenarios I would otherwise not be able to explore with the standard Hack The Box Labs VIP sub...

During a web application assessment, I was testing a web application which, like many web apps, interacted with a database system via a web API. Since the scope solely allowed for testing from a fr...

I passed the OSCP exam with 90 points (80 + 10 bonus points)! Background I am a 21-year-old IT professional from the Netherlands who has worked in IT for nearly 4 years. After doing my internship...