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How to RE with Radare When You Know Nothing

March 3, 2021July 10, 2021Leave a comment

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Assembly is the language of reversing binaries, and it can be intimidating to learn. However, you can circumnavigate the need for fluency in this foreign language by learning to use a translation tool like Radare instead—and the assembly will assemble into place later!

How to Regex When You Know Nothing

March 1, 2021July 10, 2021Leave a comment

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Regular Expressions are sets of special characters that symbolize search patterns. They look rather strange and esoteric, not unlike super-high-level, brain-exploding voodoo magic, but, as ghostinth3machine demonstrates, they're really not too difficult to learn, and, once you do learn them, you'll wonder how you ever survived without them.

How to Go From Hashed to Cracked With Hashcat

February 24, 2021July 10, 2021Leave a comment

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"If you turn the crank of the sausage machine backwards, pigs won't come out the other end." ...Or will they? Using hashcat on Windows—both in command line and GUI—ghostinth3machine explains how hashing works and demonstrates how to turn cryptographic sausage back into a password!

How to Command Line When You Know Nothing

February 22, 2021July 10, 2021Leave a comment

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Warning: If you've been a long-time Windows GUI user, the Linux terminal may induce culture shock. But did you know that Windows has its own command line interface (CLI) that's not too different from Linux Terminal? Ghostinth3machine guides you through Windows CLI, where you can explore command-line basics in familiar surroundings!

Everything You Need to Know About the NCL Season

February 11, 2021July 10, 20212 Comments

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New to NCL and not sure how the season works? Got some jitters to shake? Ghostinth3machine offers a high-level overview of the NCL season along with tips and links to help you start getting acclimated!

Spotting Anomalies in Pcaps

September 7, 2020July 10, 20211 Comment

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Intimidated by Wireshark? It's just a fancy spreadsheet! Ghostinth3machine shows you how to filter traffic, follow streams, search, view statistics, and otherwise go from wearing down your scroll wheel to making that fancy spreadsheet work for you!

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