Starbeard’s Security Blog

  • THM Ignite

    Ignite is an easy-difficulty room on TryHackMe.com and is located here: https://tryhackme.com/room/ignite# As always, when starting a room we will begin with enumeration. First things first, we’ll do a quick nmap scan. We’re using the options -vv for added verbosity, -sV to find what services and versions are running, and -A for OS information. We…

  • Cyborg

    The lab that this writeup covers can be found here: https://tryhackme.com/room/cyborgt8 First things first, I want to make it known that there may be some issues later in the lab trying to use your own machine, so I would recommend using the attack box for this one. According to the description, this practical lab is…

  • Welcome

    Hello, and welcome to my security blog. I’m Starbeard, and I am a cybersecurity student and aspiring security researcher. This is an attempt to chronicle my learning journey and experiences. For now, things are mostly going to be focused on performing lab write-ups for TryHackMe and occasionally some opinions on things that I learn either…

  • THM Cross-Site Scripting Lab

    This lab can be found at https://tryhackme.com/room/xss What is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)?Cross-site Scripting is an injection attack that uses JavaScript to maliciously be executed by other users. There are multiple uses, like key logging and session stealing, but it can be used for something as simple as having an alert box appear on a site.…