💻 Explore offensive security, the hacker mindset, and hack a web app to improve security.
🏷️🏷️ Room Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/becomeahacker
🦊 Learning Objectives 🦊
📌 Explain what offensive security is and understand why it is used to improve system security
📌 Recognize common terminology and methodology used in offensive security
📌 Practice ethical hacking techniques in a safe, permission-based environment
📌 Identify next steps and learning paths to continue your offensive security journey
🎯 Room Tasks: 🎯
🔑 Task 1: What Is Offensive Security?
🐈 Task 2: Finding Weaknesses
- Using the manual or automated methods described above, what hidden web page did you discover?
- Based on your Gobuster scan results, what status code is returned when accessing the hidden page?
🐄 Task 3: Exploiting Weaknesses
- Using either manual testing or an automated dictionary attack, what password did you discover for the admin user?
- After logging in using the password found, what secret message is displayed on the page?
- Review the output of your Hydra dictionary attack. How many password attempts were made before the correct password was found?
🐅 Task 4: Where to Go From Here
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