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New NAS and Backup Strategy

New NAS and Backup Strategy

I finally got a NAS (Synology DS216se) for the house to keep our photos and other important files safe. I was starting to get really nervous about losing data both on the home computer and this server as well. The new NAS required a good backup strategy. I really wanted

Cloudflare - Free Tier

Cloudflare - Free Tier

While researching ways to improve the speed of this website, I recently found out that Cloudflare offers a free tier of service to personal websites and blogs. Everything I read made this seem like a pretty easy move and the benefits of increased security, speed, and DOS protection seemed like

Hack The Box - Mirai

Hack The Box - Mirai

Mirai: Retired 10 Feb 2018 If you are interested in learning more about penetration testing, Hack the Box is a great way to get your feet wet in a legal and well built environment. Head over to hackthebox.eu [https://hackthebox.eu] to get started. Mirai was certainly one of

Hack The Box - Solidstate

Hack The Box - Solidstate

SolidState: Retired 27 Jan 2018 If you are interested in learning more about penetration testing, Hack the Box is a great way to get your feet wet in a legal and well built environment. Head over to hackthebox.eu [https://hackthebox.eu] to get started. Solidstate was extremely similar to

Book Review - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

Book Review - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

!!!!SPOILERS!!!! While perusing Facebook, I saw recommendation for this book. I had never heard of this title before that. I put a few titles on hold from the library and this was the first one that was available and I am glad. Hillbilly Elegy is an intriguing story of one

Flying To The Coast

Flying To The Coast

The last opportunity we had to fly the family to the coast was back in November and the plane had a leaky fuel sump and kept us on the ground, so being able to finally make the trip in January was a treat. We originally had plans to be in

Book Review - Ernest Cline's Ready Player One

Book Review - Ernest Cline's Ready Player One

!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!! I recently read Ready Play One in anticipation of the movie release in March. Multiple people told me the book was a fun read and the moving sounds good (I had to read the book while trying to avoid the trailer until I was done). I liked the

SANS Holiday Hack 2017 - Wintered

SANS Holiday Hack 2017 - Wintered

This year's Holiday Hack did not disappoint. Using vulnerabilities and attacks that dominated the headlines this year made the event even more fun.

Book Review - Frank Herbert's Dune

Book Review - Frank Herbert's Dune

!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!! I just decided that I would write reviews for books that I have read that seem impactful in some way. Some of these might just be literary reviews but could stray to social commentary about how the book addresses current issues. The first book on the list is

First Useful PowerShell Script: PuTTY to SSH Config

First Useful PowerShell Script: PuTTY to SSH Config

I have done a little bit of PowerShell work in the past but mostly just training exercises and modifying existing stuff. With the release of Bash for Windows and the recent announcement that Microsoft will be bringing OpenSSH to Windows [https://www.techspot.com/news/72313-native-openssh-coming-windows-10.html] I figured this

Metasploitable3 CTF

Metasploitable3 CTF

Rapid7 just wrapped up the second of their Metsploitable3 CTFs, this time for the Linux version of the intentionally vulnerable OS that both beginner and advanced hackers can hone their skills on. They only allowed 500 participants/teams worldwide. I had a lot of free time the week of the

Hack The Box - Blocky

Hack The Box - Blocky

Blocky: Retired 9 Dec 2017 If you are interested in learning more about penetration testing, Hack the Box is a great way to get your feet wet in a legal and well built environment. Head over to hackthebox.eu [https://hackthebox.eu] to get started. Blocky has been the easiest

Hocking Hills State Park

Hocking Hills State Park

While in Ohio for some Air Force training I decided to violate our 90 minute driving radius and drive two hours to the gorgeous Hocking Hills State Park. I have to admit, I did not expect much from Ohio, the drive in was about as flat as Nebraska and when

Hack The Box: Europa

Hack The Box: Europa

Europa: Retired 2 Dec 2017 If you are interested in learning more about penetration testing, Hack the Box is a great way to get your feet wet in a legal and well built environment. Head over to hackthebox.eu to get started Enumeration Using Sparta, I ran a staged NMAP

Hack The Box: Apocalyst

Hack The Box: Apocalyst

Apocalyst: Retired 25 Nov 2017 If you are interested in learning more about penetration testing, Hack the Box is a great way to get your feet wet in a legal and well built environment. Head over to hackthebox.eu to get started. Enumeration Using Sparta, I ran a staged NMAP

Making My Server IPv6 Compatible

Making My Server IPv6 Compatible

I got a Reddit message from a user who is running a single stack IPv6 setup and was unable to access my website. I thought I had everything in order to make this work but apparently not. Thanks to this user for reaching out so I could fix the problem.

Air Force Network Research Homework

Air Force Network Research Homework

Continuing my Air Force Training's Advanced Distance Learning I had to choose a network protocol from a list and do a short research assignment on the tool. I chose DNS. I got 10/10 on this while also getting to use a link to a friends DNS exfiltraiton

Colorado Vacation - Lake Como

Colorado Vacation - Lake Como

We recently got back from a good week long vacation to Colorado to visit our brothers and my nephew. Aside from the great breweries and awesome beer, my brother and I also got to do some back country camping. We chose Lake Como, nestled in the middle of the Blanca,

Update All The Things - MySQL Migration

Update All The Things - MySQL Migration

My Ghost installation recently informed me that an update was available. I usually try to take care of these as quickly as possible and have a little script the did all the updating for me. So I blindly kicked off my script and promptly bricked my Ghost install. Ghost Update

Air Force Training: Guided Research Assignment

Air Force Training: Guided Research Assignment

As part of my next round of Air Force Training's Advanced Distance Learning I had to chose a tool from a list and do a short research assignment on the tool. I chose Burp Suite. Here is what I wrote...seemed like a good idea of post something

Hacking and Skydiving

Hacking and Skydiving

Well I was lucky enough to get to go to a Con (Conference) again this year. I went to DEFCON last year but this year decided to go to a smaller Con to see what that was like. Based on a co-worker's recommendation, I decided to go to

SANS SEC642 - Advanced Web App Penetration Testing

SANS SEC642 - Advanced Web App Penetration Testing

I was just lucky enough for work to send me to a SANS course in Vegas (at Caesar's no less, where Caesar lives) because a member of our team had previously booked the course and then left the company. SANS has a great refund policy and would have

WOD On The Lake

WOD On The Lake

We recently moved CrossFit gyms to Crossfit Born Ready [https://www.crossfitbornready.com/] so that we could work out together and take the baby with us instead of working out separately. Lucky for us, they were doing a lake workout and BBQ the weekend after we started so we got

Meal Delivery Services

Meal Delivery Services

We have been using the free/discounted trial periods for a bunch of meal delivery services 1) because it makes them really affordable and 2) because when we had just had our baby, it made a lot of sense to have easy meals, oh and 3) we are cheap and

Pilots N' Paws

I recently had the oppurtunity to work with a pretty sweet charity organization: Pilots 'N Paws [https://www.pilotsnpaws.org/]. They are an organization that pairs pilots who want to fly with dogs who need transport to their forever home. In many cases, these dogs are within hours of