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Hack The Box: Sau

Enumeration Port 80 doesn't give me anything but port 55555 reveals what looks like a Python-based web app. The application appears to be some sort of app to inspect HTTP requests that are sent to the application. There is a function to enter a master token that allows

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Hack The Box: Keeper

Enumeration As always, start off with an NMAP Scan Just 80 and 22 open today. We will start by enumerating the web app. To make some of this work easier, I am going to add keeper.htb and tickets.keeper.htb to my hosts file. Navigating to the linked site

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Hack the Box: Inject

Enumeration Browsing to the webpage on port 8080 lands at a "Zodd Cloud" product page. There seems to be signup and sign in functionality that will be worth exploring. None of the links work except signup, which lands at an Under Construction page. Oh, but there is an

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Broken Azure

I saw this link posted on LinkedIn with a collection of free cloud training resources and decided to try my hand at some of the Azure ones given my relative lack of familiarity with Azure versus GCP and AWS. Kind of going in order, I decided to start with Secura&

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Hack the Box: Busqueda

Initial Recon Conduct typical initial portscan └─$ nmap 10.10.11.208 Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-04-26 11:13 EDT Nmap scan report for 10.10.11.208 Host is up (0.089s latency). Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (conn-refused) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open

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Family Road Trip 2021

I had to be in Las Vegas for work for a few weeks. Since I was planning to drive anyways, we decided to make a road trip out of it and visit several National Parks along the way and finishing the trip off with a couple of nights in Vegas.

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Lost Creek Wilderness Loop

I was getting the itch to do a backpacking trip. Given the pandemic situation I decided to stick close to home and went with the Lost Creek Wilderness Loop. Coming from Denver, the Wigwam Trailhead was the closest entry point.  However, that trailhead has about a 3.7 mile spur

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Skiing With a 2-Year-Old

We took our son skiing for what could be the last time this season. As such, I thought it would be appropriate to recount the trials, tribulations, and celebrations of a season of skiing with a 2YO. Patience and Expectation Management The key to every ski trip with kids is

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Squaw Mountain Fire Lookout

I am not sure where I first heard about them (probably some click-baity Facebook ad), but for the last few months I have been obsessing over renting a US Forest Service fire lookout tower. In their heyday, there were a couple thousand lookout towers. With the advent of modern technology,

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Five Fourteener Frenzy Weekend

After planning a Sunday trip to climb Longs Peak with some folks from 14ers.com I decided to fill my Saturday with the DeCaLiBron route. After the Sunday Longs trip fell through, I ended up doing Torreys Peak on Sunday. Altogether I hit 5 fourteener peaks this weekend, 4 of

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DIY Barn Door

A common architectural feature out here in Colorado is to not actually put a door between the master bedroom and the master bathroom. So we decided a barn door was the best option but given the non-standard (wider than normal) size of our doorway, the only pre-made options were going

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Mount Evans - 14,264'

Mount Evans is Colorado's 14th highest peak and also one of the most accessible as it has a road to the top. I tried to summit this mountain a few weeks ago with my 2-year-old on my back. We ended up turning back because he was ready to

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Pit Stop At Arches National Park

The drive from Las Vegas to Denver is a long one.  Somewhere in the 11-12 hour range. This length of trip necessitates at least one major pitstop (on top of regular gas and snacks). Luckily Arches National Park is almost exactly half way and made for a perfect opportunity to

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Zion National Park - Partial Zion Traverse

I was in Las Vegas for work and had a long-ish weekend due to moving from day shift to night shift. I decided this would be the perfect opportunity to plan a trip to Zion National Park for some wilderness backpacking. The park has a ton of trails but for

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10 Years, 10 Things I Have Learned

My wife and I have been married for 10 YEARS TODAY!!!!  It is insane how quickly time flies and how many life events have happened in that time. I love her more than anything in the world but as they say "marriage is work".  I think we would

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Olive Ridge Campground - With A 2-Year-Old

With the weather being so outstanding, we decided to pack up the fam and head up into the mountains to get a weekend camping trip under our belts. We had previously taken the little guy camping back in Texas for one night. This trip was a test of our two-night

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Mount Falcon Park

We were looking for a hike on the west side of Denver so that we could meet up with friends in the area afterwards.  Mount Falcon Park was in the perfect spot for the time we had between nap time ending for the little dude and needing to meet up

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Saint Mary's Glacier

Being in Colorado, I felt the itch to get up into the mountains before our first month in our new home was up.  On a suggestion from my brother-in-law, we decided to head up to Saint Mary's Glacier. The glacier is just past Idaho Springs on I-70 so

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pfSense With CenturyLink 1GB Fiber

We just recently moved into a neighborhood that offers CenturyLink 1GB fiber into the house.  I mistakenly though the change would be as simple as plugging in my current setup to whatever modem they provided.  Turns out that is not the case and that a little more work is required.

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Hack The Box: Irked

Irked: Retired 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 My initial enumeration returned a handful of ports. From port

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pfSense Insights

This post will be updated as I find out interesting tidbits while working with my pfSense. Usually this will be getting something in the house to work as expected with out opening up the firewall to everything. Amazon Shopping App UPDATE: The solution listed below no longer works. The Amazon

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Big Bend National Park: Outer Mountain Loop

I had about 3.5 days of my first quarter time off leftover after trips to Washington (working vacation) and Hawaii and I desperately wanted to do a backpacking trip in Big Bend.  Some quick Googling led me to the Outer Mountain Loop.  This trip can be anywhere from 25-45

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Moanalua Valley Middle Ridge to the Forbidden Haiku Stairs

Distance: 9.6 miles Time To Top: 3 hours 8 minutes Time Down" 2 hours 25 minutes Round Trip Time: 6 hours With a new baby in the family, it was time to pack up and head back to Hawaii to see the new little guy.  I also took

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SANS Holiday Hack 2018

I have to be honest, life is just too busy this year for me to actually write a full report in the context of the story. Suffice it to say, I really enjoyed this year's challenge, much better than last year in terms of not having to actually

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Flying To Dallas With A Toddler

I have been wanting to fly to Dallas for a while and 3 opportunities in a row have resulted in the weather not cooperating. Well, we finally had the weather we needed to make the trip. I generally prefer to fly the Flight School's Cessna 172, but after