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So seven boxes down currently have low priv on the 8th – have spent approx 4 days getting low priv thanks to a sneak port choice. Took a break yesterday from the box to work on an initial scan script that would pick up something like that in future. I would have a lot more boxes completed if I could...

Day: -56 PDF: 90% Videos: 95% Boxes: 4 Networks:1 I’ve decided to change the way i count the days – going by how long until my lab runs out. I’ll go back at some stage and change the other posts to match this new format. I’ve just completed the write up for a box after finally getting root. Wish I...

Day 29 PDF: 90% Videos: 95% Boxes: 3 Networks:1 Just a short update as I haven’t posted anything for a while. Have been feeling quite down of late and starting to think is this something that is just out of my technical reach. I’m not making any progress and seem to be stuck. I have taken about a week off...

Day 7 PDF: 2/3 Videos: 3/4 Boxes: 0 Networks:1 One week down and I have been concentrating on getting the exercises completed have made good progress. I’ve skipped over the Buffer Overflow part of the PDF as I know this is all new learning for me and I want to complete as much of the PDF and exercised before I...

Day 5 PDF: 2/3 Videos: 3/4 Boxes: 0 Networks:1 Just a quick update. I have been having problems with the lab connection. I lost connection for a day and then lost connection to my student control panel. The good news is that Offensive Security have added 2 extra days to my account. While this was going on I had a...

Day 3 PDF: 2/3 Videos: 2/3 Boxes: 0 Networks:1 I feel a bit overwhelmed with the amount of information I have to learn, the number of machines that there are on the lab network, the number of open ports on a lot of the machines, the length of time it takes to run nmap scans. I finished the buffer overflow...

Day 2 PDF: 1/3 Videos: 1/3 Boxes: 0 Networks:1 I received the material yesterday and spent about 10 hours reading the PDF, watching the videos as well as doing some of the exercises. There isn’t 10 hours from what I can tell of videos I was rewatching certain ones. I’m about a third of the way through the materials but...