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Howto be a Hacker/Pentester/Security person - List of resources

I've just stolen HypnZA list of suggested links and added a few others by various people. (Please feel free to send me other links/info you think might be useful to add.)

HypnZA's commonly shared list (in the correct order):

1. https://www.hacksplaining.com
2. https://pentesterlab.com/exercises/web_for_pentester and https://pentesterlab.com/exercises/web_for_pentester_II
3. Watch Ippsec's HackTheBox videos from oldest to newest, but attempt the box in the video before watching the video (requires a paid hackthebox account to access the machines in the videos)

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set http or socks proxy environment variables

# set http proxy
export http_proxy=http://PROXYHOST:PROXYPORT

# set http proxy with user and password
export http_proxy=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@PROXYHOST:PROXYPORT

# set http proxy with user and password (with special characters)

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According to several forums, you can disable HSTS by introducing a new configuration variable. First, go to the Firefox configuration page (about:config), right-click, choose "New Integer", then provide the name "test.currentTimeOffsetSeconds" (no quotes) with a value of 11491200. This should bypass HSTS, although you may also need to clear the Cache and Active Logins in the Clear Recent History dialog (Ctrl-Shift-Del).

This apparently works because of a function called GetPreloadListEntry that checks to see if the current time is less than the next list expiration time; since the time is effectively calculated to be later than the expiration time, no check is performed. This effectively disables HSTS checks.

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#!/bin/bash
#
# transcode-video.sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Don Melton
#

about() {
    cat <<EOF
$program 5.13 of April 8, 2015

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For some reason, it is surprisingly hard to create a bootable Windows USB using macOS. These are my steps for doing so, which have worked for me in macOS Monterey (12.6.1) for Windows 10 and 11. After following these steps, you should have a bootable Windows USB drive.

1. Download a Windows disc image (i.e. ISO file)

You can download Windows 10 or Windows 11 directly from Microsoft.

2. Identify your USB drive

After plugging the drive to your machine, identify the name of the USB device using diskutil list, which should return an output like the one below. In my case, the correct disk name is disk2.