James Cao
TryHackMe Kenobi Room

TryHackMe - Kenobi Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Kenobi Room - Walkthrough on exploiting a Linux machine. Enumerate Samba for shares, manipulate a vulnerable version of proftpd and escalate your privileges with path variable manipulation. Overview Room URL: https://tryhackme.com/room/kenobi Difficulty: Easy Time to complete: 45 Walkthrough 1. Deploy the vulnerable machine Scan the machine with nmap, how many ports are open? ...

September 13, 2025 · 3 min
TryHackMe Metasploit Introduction Room

TryHackMe - Metasploit Introduction Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Metasploit Introduction Room - An introduction to the main components of the Metasploit Framework. Overview Room URL: https://tryhackme.com/room/metasploitintro Difficulty: Easy Time to complete: 30 Walkthrough 1. Introduction to Metasploit No hints needed! ...

September 11, 2025 · 2 min
TryHackMe Vulnversity Room

TryHackMe - Vulnversity Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Vulnversity Room - Learn about active recon, web app attacks and privilege escalation. Overview Room URL: https://tryhackme.com/room/vulnversity Difficulty: Easy Time to complete: 45 Walkthrough 1. Deploy the machine No hints needed! ...

September 11, 2025 · 2 min
TryHackMe Intro To IaC Room

TryHackMe - Intro To IaC Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Intro To IaC Room - An introduction to infrastructure as code. Overview Room URL: https://tryhackme.com/room/introtoiac Difficulty: Easy Time to complete: 90 Walkthrough 1. Introduction No hints needed! 2. IaC - The Concept Your organisation is preparing to launch a new service called FlyNet. The DevSecOps team provisioned an infrastructure and tested this service in the dev environment. Which IaC characteristic will streamline the provisioning of this same infrastructure in staging and production? => Answer: Repeatable ...

September 11, 2025 · 3 min
TryHackMe Windows Fundamentals Part 3 Room

TryHackMe - Windows Fundamentals Part 3 Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Windows Fundamentals Part 3 Room - In part 3 of the Windows Fundamentals module, learn about the built-in Microsoft tools that help keep the device secure, such as Windows Updates, Windows Security, BitLocker, and more… ...

September 10, 2025 · 2 min
TryHackMe Windows Fundamentals Part 2 Room

TryHackMe - Windows Fundamentals Part 2 Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Windows Fundamentals Part 2 Room - In part 2 of the Windows Fundamentals module, discover more about System Configuration, UAC Settings, Resource Monitoring, the Windows Registry and more.. Overview Room URL: https://tryhackme.com/room/windowsfundamentals2x0x Difficulty: Info Time to complete: 30 Walkthrough 1. Introduction No hints needed! ...

September 10, 2025 · 3 min
TryHackMe Windows Fundamentals Part 1 Room

TryHackMe - Windows Fundamentals Part 1 Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Windows Fundamentals Part 1 Room - In part 1 of the Windows Fundamentals module, we’ll start our journey learning about the Windows desktop, the NTFS file system, UAC, the Control Panel, and more. ...

September 10, 2025 · 2 min
TryHackMe What Is Networking Room

TryHackMe - What Is Networking Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. What Is Networking Room - Begin learning the fundamentals of computer networking in this bite-sized and interactive module. Overview Room URL: https://tryhackme.com/room/whatisnetworking Difficulty: Info Time to complete: 30 Walkthrough 1. What is Networking? What is the key term for devices that are connected together? => Answer: Network ...

September 10, 2025 · 2 min
TryHackMe Web Application Security Room

TryHackMe - Web Application Security Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Web Application Security Room - Learn about web applications and explore some of their common security issues. Overview Room URL: https://tryhackme.com/room/introwebapplicationsecurity Difficulty: Easy Time to complete: 90 Walkthrough 1. Introduction What do you need to access a web application? => Answer: Browser ...

September 10, 2025 · 1 min
TryHackMe Unified Kill Chain Room

TryHackMe - Unified Kill Chain Room Walkthrough

This is my TryHackMe walkthrough, created to document my learning journey and share solutions with the community. The writeups include a mix of hints, step-by-step explanations, and final answers to help players who get stuck, while still encouraging independent problem-solving. Unified Kill Chain Room - The Unified Kill Chain is a framework which establishes the phases of an attack, and a means of identifying and mitigating risk to IT assets. ...

September 10, 2025 · 3 min