DefendTheWeb Basic Missions 01 · HACKINGKNACK://LOG

DefendTheWeb.net, previously called HackThis.co.uk, is one of the many different websites that publishes Web Hacking Games where the registered user must complete a certain challenge to continue to the other mission. I like this website mainly because it’s composed by many different types of missions in many different knowledge areas. All the challenges are presented in a simple way from the basic to the hard ones, with it’s always increasing difficulty from one challenge to another.

HackThisSite’s (http://www.hackthissite.org) challenges, by the time of this post, are basically divided in the following types:

Basic Missions;
Realistic Missions;
Application Missions;
Programming Missions;
PhonePhreaking Missions;
ExtBasic Missions;
JavaScript Missions;
Stego Missions;
IRC Missions;

This subject was revisited a great number of times before, and you can find many videos about this on the web, youtube, and other sites, but I was unable to find a video that truly explains the techniques in the proper way, and above all, i’ve never found a place where I could see all of them together, so my mission with this post is to create a series of videos based on HackThisSite Basic Missions and present them in an easy way for the beginner to get to know the right way to do things.

This is the first series of HackThisSite Video Series post, I intend to do all of the other Challenge Missions available and make this post the most complete I can.

Let’s Begin with the Basics …

1. HackThisSite.org Basic Mission #01 Challenge Solution

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On the Basic Mission #01, is that HackThisSite itself call the “Idiot Test”, it’s design simply for the beginner to understand the basic concepts on information gathering and source code inspection.

In this mission the beginner will have to write the right password to continue to the next challenge. In order to find the correct password we’ll have to inspect the source code to find some hints. Pay close attention the the source code comments.

Enjoy the Video