How to unlock WalkThroughs

Introduction HackTheBox, and many other cybersecurity training platforms, don’t allow for public writeups/walkthroughs of active challenges or boxes. If you ask me, it really takes the fun away of doing a box if you just casually find during your research a howto on how to solve it. You can always “not look”, but still 😉. To avoid flags being out in the open internet and availble to anyone, HTB designed a system of flag rotation....

2021-05-31 · 2 min · r3pek

About me

Somewhere around my 16/17 years old, I had my first contact with what was called at the time a RAT which could do all the fun stuff: open CDROMs, turn monitors off, reboot computers, etc. Since the security those days wasn’t seen as it is today, most of the my school’s computers ran unprotected and we could install that RAT on any machine. Yes, we had a blast 😆! At that time, I developed interest on the new kid in the block, Linux....

2021-05-10 · 2 min · r3pek