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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 to get started. Mirai was certainly one of the easier boxes

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 to get started. Solidstate was extremely similar to another training box

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.

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 I figured this would be a good time to dive

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 to get started. Blocky has been the easiest box for me

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

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

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

#TryPod - March Is Podcast Month

#TryPod - March Is Podcast Month

I'm really not sure if March is officially Podcast Awareness Month but all the podcasts I listen to have been asking listeners to use the hashtag #TryPod and to try to get at least one person they know to listen to a podcast and perhaps get indoctrinated into