I suppose we all heard of the Advent of Code. So who would be up for joining the Advent of Cyber from TryHackMe?
For those who are new to the concept: Every day, starting from the 1st of December until the 25th (Christmas), there is a new challenge up ahead. Kind of like the 30 days of tooling.
The Advent of Cyber is mainly focused on Security testing. A great way to start learning some security!
I’m in!
Hopefully “beginner friendly” means what it says 
XD, they have good tutorials and tips and tricks. It should be ok xd
I’m definitely tempted! Like Eva said, hoping it’s pure beginner friendly because I know absolutely nothing. I might just start and see what it’s like, no need to commit for the full advent I guess. Thanks for sharing!
I’m assuming its not like testing, so failing is not going to be that painful I guess.
True! I’m mainly focusing on the web app challenges.
Nope 
not always!
This one is online and it’s fully “gamified”, so it encourages you. And the exercises are pretty easy to get takeaway learnings from, so far looks good.
OK so two things happened.
I went to check out the website the day before the advent started and did some of their exercises, it was fun! They’ve got this beginners’ course (the Pre-security one) which I may or may not finish, all good.
The other thing that happened is that actual infosec people that I know are all teaming up and doing this together with some beginners that they know, and instead of just asking ‘Hey I heard about this and was considering doing it, can I join?’ I just completely froze and pretended I hadn’t already checked out the website and wasn’t interested whatsoever.
Sometimes I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
I see, playing the innocent stranger
Nothing is wrong with you, you are just making sure you get the most out of your journey! 
No no the thing is, because now it’s real infosec people doing I instantly went like ‘OK clearly this is not for me then’. And so I haven’t even tried the advent thing anymore.
Aw 
There are some walkthroughs now available so maybe give that a shot? 
You’ll see challenge 1 is very easy!
Hahahaha yeah I guess I could. I actually did get something out of it, TryHackMe also have a Presecurity learning path for people who have never done any kind of hacking or infosec stuff so I’m currently working through that one. It’s interesting!
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