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From research to practice: I created a portal to run virtual machines with vulnerabilities

Hello, . I have been searching for vulnerabilities for many years and I realized that this is a global and dynamic area. It is impossible to describe it in one book. Every day I get new knowledge about technologies, as well as about the shortcomings in their security.

For me, the main source of knowledge is the reports of other researchers in this field. Reading the reports, I find interesting techniques for myself, which I later apply in my work. As a rule, it is not enough to read the report to understand the root cause of the vulnerability. Therefore, I began to simulate situations in which the described vulnerability may appear. I started to have virtual machines with vulnerable web pages. Initially, I published them in my telegram channel, but this is not convenient, since virtual machine images weigh from 1GB. People had to download the image and install it in VirtualBox.

In this regard, it was decided to develop a portal where users can launch virtual machines with vulnerable pages at the click of a mouse.

After many months of development, I am pleased to present the hackerhub.pro website. On the site, you can run virtual machines and hack. Tasks are provided in CTF format, where upon successful hacking you get a flag. When sending the flag, you are prompted to specify the complexity of the virtual machine, which will be useful to other users.

The site is ready to use, but there is still a lot of work ahead.

From research to practice: I created a portal to run virtual machines with vulnerabilities