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Status Report 20211004

WHAT HAVE I BEEN UP TO?

The Journey Continues…

It’s been quite a while since I’ve revisited my website. I’ve been continuing to learn, hack, play, tinker, and do whatever else I can find. My journey to the OSCP goal has taken an alternative route, but I see it as a great one. When I started that journey, I was in a job where I had some free time, and planned to take 30 days to simply take the course (complete all the OSCP labs), and finish up the certification. Since then, I’ve found myself in a much more demanding job and can’t aford to take the 30 days required to give at least 40 hours a week to only hacking. As a result, I continue to hack on the "Hack The Box" system, and persue more obtainable goals related to the time that I can dedicate.

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Web Application Hacking

The last part of my course is the Web Application Hacking modules. Being that I have been creating web servers for most of my adult life, I was very interested in this next portion. I’ve read several books that mentioned cross site scripting and the rest, but have never delved into actually doing it. Needless to say, this was a very exciting part of the course for me.

I think that first and foremost, it would be good to mention the Juice Shop! It’s a docker container that starts up a web server with challenges containing each web hack that’s out there. It’s nice when you can load up a lab and just start playing thanks to the hackers before me that had enough insight to create such things. It also has quite the reference library! Just about every hack possible is explained, and that’s such a great thing when you’re just learning about them.

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