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Before we get into it…<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Let’s start this off the right way.\u00a0 Thank you readers, community contributors, and supporters! We say this every year and each year it means more to us than you will know.\u00a0 As the Information Security community continues to grow, we would be remiss to not give a recap of what we (Not just the HM staff, but community members as well!) have accomplished!\u00a0 We have exciting products in store for everyone in 2019 and are thrilled to share them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018, How’d it go?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Well… We started off 2018 thinking Hackmethod readers and community members would benefit from a few different courses with VMs, student guides, and lab guides.  As you may have figured out, that didn’t happen due to HM management shuffles and our day jobs expecting more from us than usual, that doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t happen.  With that said, we did manage to accomplish some other great things instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

First off, community is life and without it we would be lost.  Learning from each other and sharing our experiences helps define us as security professionals.  As we\u2019ve stated before, we see it in our own professional experiences in incident response, threat hunting, or just solving problems.  We, as professionals, cannot solve everything on our own and rely on brainstorming sessions, discussions, lunch-n-learn lessons, and just asking a peer. We have heavily advertised our slack channel to give users\/readers\/community leaders direct interaction with each other.  It gives the HM community the accessibility, features, and user friendly atmosphere we are always looking for.  Since starting our Slack<\/a> channel, it has grown to 168 users and continues to grow every month thanks to the community!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CTF<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Second, if you haven\u2019t noticed, Hackmethod and the community have decided to make the CTF an annual (date TBD) contest instead of a monthly release of challenges.  We saw the stress adding up and amount of work it took to maintain a constant release of challenges. inCIDRthreat<\/a> has been the primary contributor and maintainer for HMCTF.  The HMCTF site<\/a> is still active and running and will eventually be updated with majority of 2017-2018 challenges that were previously released.  So check it out and remember to visit often.  Announcements will be made when challenges are added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Achievements<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n