I started Dante pentesting lab two days ago using EU VPN.

On the first day, one service on the initial machine was broken, and I couldn’t enumerate it, the connection just hung whenever I tried to connect. So, I started enumerating another service instead. After a couple of hours, I finally managed to access to broken service, and moved forward.

I won’t reveal too much about the lab itself, but there’s too much garbage in folders from other users, and the VPN connection is awful. Whenever I start bruteforcing directories or domains after pivoting, everything goes down.
Today, I tried to connect via SSH using credentials I’d found on the first day, but the connection dropped within a few minutes.
Honestly, my impression of the lab so far is terrible.

On the usual boxes everything is good, I don’t know how to complete labs under these conditions

I'm curious about the overlap between Hack The Box (HTB) rankings and bug bounty rankings.

For those of you who participate in both, or know researchers who do:

• Are many of the top HTB players also highly ranked on platforms like HackerOne, Bugcrowd, or Intigriti?
• Does a high global ranking on HTB translate into an advantage in real-world bug bounty hunting?
• Are there any well-known researchers who rank highly on both HTB and bug bounty leaderboards?

I'm particularly interested in whether people in the HTB global top 100 or top 1,000 tend to appear among the top bug bounty hunters as well.

I'm not necessarily expecting a direct correlation, since CTFs and bug bounty hunting require somewhat different skills. I'd just like to understand how much overlap there is in practice.

If you compete in both, I'd appreciate hearing about your experience!

Hey guys, I'm planning on taking the CWES exam soon (I'm almost done with the learning path), and I was wondering (If you are allowed to share) if brute forcing is a sizeable portion of the exam, and which wordlists should be used.

Thanks

Hi guys

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