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Is this thing on? It’s been awhile since I last turned this thing on, but better late than never, right? [Read More]

The Exam The morning of my exam, I woke up extremely nervous. I barely slept and knew I had a long day ahead of me. I scheduled my first exam to begin at 8:00 AM EST and when 8:01 AM rolled around, I expected to receive my email with exam instructions. I figured there was a slight delay so I decided to wait. Twenty minutes passed by and nothing. I reached out to OffSec and after forty-five minutes, I received an email containing the instructions. I VPN’d into the exam network, read the objectives, and proceeded. About two hours in,... [Read More]

Background Penetration testing has always been a topic of interest for me. Dating back to my teenage years, wanting to “hack a system” was something I always wanted to do. I tried to tinker with a few things here and there over the years, but I was usually too intimidated to do anything. My interest in cybersecurity grew in college, but my program focused more on the business aspects of cyber and not the technical. [Read More]