Task 1 - Introduction

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Task 2 - Example Research Question

In the Burp Suite Program that ships with Kali Linux, what mode would you use to manually send a request (often repeating a captured request numerous times)?
Answer: Repeater
What hash format are modern Windows login passwords stored in?
Answer: NTLM
What are automated tasks called in Linux?
Answer: Cron Jobs
What number base could you use as a shorthand for base 2 (binary)?
Answer: Base 16
If a password hash starts with $6$, what format is it (Unix variant)?
Answer: sha512crypt

What is the CVE for the 2020 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in WPForms?
Answer: CVE-2020-10385
There was a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability found in the Debian version of Apache Tomcat, back in 2016. What’s the CVE for this vulnerability?
Answer: CVE-2016-1240
What is the very first CVE found in the VLC media player?
Answer: CVE-2007-0017
If you wanted to exploit a 2020 buffer overflow in the sudo program, which CVE would you use?
Answer: CVE-2019-18634

SCP is a tool used to copy files from one computer to another.

What switch would you use to copy an entire directory?
Answer: -r
fdisk is a command used to view and alter the partitioning scheme used on your hard drive.
What switch would you use to list the current partitions?
Answer: -l
nano is an easy-to-use text editor for Linux. There are arguably better editors (Vim, being the obvious choice); however, nano is a great one to start with.
What switch would you use to make a backup when opening a file with nano?
Answer: -B

Netcat is a basic tool used to manually send and receive network requests.

What command would you use to start netcat in listen mode, using port 12345?
Answer: nc -l -p 12345

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