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Cyber Countdown
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Cyber Countdown: Day 1

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KieranRowley
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26 days ago

Throughout December we are unwrapping, fresh content, celebrating this year’s successes, and gifting you with the tools and insight you need to be ready for 2025.

Lab of the Day

Every day we’re revisiting a standout lab from the past year—highlighting its impact and the skills it helped build, whilst also introducing you to the experts who built it.

To get us started, today’s lab is of course Episode 2 of our Community Challenge -Scanning. In this lab we’ll test your scanning and enumeration skills but other than that, you’ll find limited information available to guide you.

Lab author BethHolden, Cyber Security Engineer here at Immersive Labs is passionate about offensive cybersecurity and created this challenge as a little Christmas treat. The lab contains a range of tools which may provide multiple ways to solve the challenge, she’s eager to see how well you fare – good luck!

As a reminder, we reward the top performing community members in the following categories:

🥇 First to Finish
⏱️ Fastest to Complete
🎯 Most Accurate
💪 Most Persistent
🎁 Spot Prizes

In addition, at the end of each month, the lab author will provide a walkthrough to guide you through the lab and share hints, tips and expert advice on how to approach similar labs in the future. We also encourage you to submit your own walkthrough guides to community@immersivelabs.com and we will feature any unique approaches in their own Community Walkthrough Guide.

You can read more about Season 1 of the Human Connection Challenge here. To be in with a chance of a prize you have until midnight on Sunday 22nd December 2024 to complete episode 2!  

To find the lab in the Immersive Labs Platform, Click Exercise > Challenges & Scenarios > The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1 > Scanning

 

 

🔔 Don’t miss out – there are 5 more labs to come in this challenge series. Make sure you're following the CHALLENGES Tag to get notified as soon as each one is released.

Good Luck!

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  • This second season lab is really cool but I got stuck on question 8 about "Identify a token on one of the ports", is there any hint you could give me?😄

    • CalumS's avatar
      CalumS
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      I second that, great lab to start of the the Countdown, but stuck on that question 8 too even after completing all the other questions. 

      • edgarloredo's avatar
        edgarloredo
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        Any luck CalumS? I have spent hours scanning DNS and HTTP

  • Have bookmarked it in our teams calendar, looking forward to the start of the countdown🎄

  • Love the idea of the Community Walkthrough Guide! Always cool to see how other folks approach a challenge.