https://youtu.be/6D035k7l_6o Unlocking the Power of Google AI Studio with Gemini 2.0 Unlocking the Power of Google AI Studio with Gemini 2.0 The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has opened doors to innovative tools that enhance productivity and streamline workflows. One such groundbreaking tool is Google AI Studio, introduced with its…

https://youtu.be/zkm0yj0zbds Enhance Your Home Assistant with HACS Enhance Your Home Assistant with HACS What is HACS? The Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) is a powerful integration tool for Home Assistant users. It allows you to install custom integrations and themes developed by the community, offering more flexibility in how you…

https://youtu.be/EnejSp-2yLg How to Install Home Assistant on Windows with Hyper-V How to Install Home Assistant on Windows with Hyper-V Welcome to our comprehensive guide on installing Home Assistant on a Windows machine utilizing Hyper-V! This tutorial aims to walk you through the straightforward steps necessary for setting up Home Assistant…

https://youtu.be/fNtPWNsmuew Understanding the Power of Git Pre-Commit Hooks Understanding the Power of Git Pre-Commit Hooks As developers, one of the key aspects of our work is to ensure that the code we write is not only functional but also clean and free of errors. Git pre-commit hooks provide a powerful…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh0eZtazGtU 2024 Home Lab Recap: Services and Future Plans Unveiling Your 2024 Home Lab Recap: Services and Future Planning With the end of the year approaching, it’s the perfect time to evaluate the developments in your Home Lab. This recap focuses on the core services that have been set up,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7i1d07skSI Introduction Are you ready to level up your PowerShell skills? In this video, we’ll cover 10 essential PowerShell commands every IT pro, sysadmin, and developer should know. These commands will streamline your scripting, automation, and everyday tasks on Windows. Learning PowerShell is very important in order to become a…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHf4jOBYTro&t=502s How To Use Tenable.SC Python Script To Build Custom Reports Why Should We Build A Script To Create Custom Reports? If you have ever used Tenable.SC you will know how frustrating it can be to build a report. You are tied down to the limited filters and settings provided…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXbvtbTMMI&t=24s Purpose Are you looking to automate a workflow? Check out this n8n tutorial for beginners. It is a low code solution, offering plenty of different nodes and integrations to interact with apps you use everyday! In this particular example we are building a website down detector. Essentially I want…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAKDxoWN8ns Purpose: How can you secure the network if you do not know what is vulnerable? There are measures that can be put in place to harden the network and each of the endpoints, but it is equally just as important to stay up to date with vulnerabilities and making…

Introduction Weather you are in the lab learning or in the work place, OpenVAS is a good tool to check out. GreenBone offers both a paid and free solution depending on the requirements of the task. In this case, I was set out to learn about the platform and scan…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbko3KYQww To start this conversation I wanted to say that this is not a normal discussion for the CyberMe following. The reason I had the idea of discussing this topic is due to the amount content creators who share some GPT generated ‘How To Guide’ to land a job in…

Introduction For those that are interested in automating tasks within your Tenable Security Center environment, you came to the right place. Although I do not have access to any Tenable products at this time, I do have some of the scripts that I had developed over the years which made…

Introduction: In the realm of cybersecurity, staying one step ahead of potential threats is crucial. This week, we dive into the world of penetration testing with a spotlight on NMAP (Network Mapper), one of the most versatile and widely used network scanning tools. NMAP is your go-to tool for network…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mJ7nQEgOz70 The purpose of this video is to cover the necessary steps to automate creating a task in Jira. For example, an RSS feed provided by Tenable must be updated. Once the RSS feed is updated, the title of the update and date must meet certain parameters defined in script….

This is my first post back on the blog after a recent move. I plan to make a more updated post to cover plans for 2023 but in the mean time I wanted to document a weekend project. Purpose: The purpose of this project is to get into the basics…

Disclaimer: I know after our last post we said we would cover a weekend project I had accomplished in regards to creating/hosting our very own docker container. Although I do still plan to cover this I had recently been deep in the lab (on the road) learning more about CISCO…

This weekend with all of my devices packed away, I decided to focus on something I have been meaning to learn more about, Docker. I have used Docker and containers for going on two years. The most that I did was deploying a few containers and manage the application from…

Today is the day I shut it down. I shut down my server in order for me to continue packing and prepare for an upcoming move. The video will be uploaded in a few weeks as I do have a few other videos recorded that I would like to upload…

Purpose: I have developed a similar script for my company months back and just decided today to cover the first version of it. I love automating any task that is done more then once. It saves a lot of time and allows me to focus my attention on other projects….

Today we are going to complete the Overpass on TryHackMe. I have been enjoying TryHackMe lately. This week I have completed about 5 rooms. This particular room took a little longer then anticipated but nonetheless, I learned a few things and had fun. In this room we will discuss Rot13…

Purpose: I wanted to do a write up highlighting an SQL injection lab provided by TryHackMe. Although it is listed as ‘Easy’, I do find the lab to be quite beneficial. In this write up I will discuss how I went about retrieving the flag using a python script I…

Purpose: Another day, another write-up! I have completed most of these boxes from HTB a few weeks back. Just now putting some time aside to document the process. Today’s box Fawn, covers some basics of FTP and NMAP scans. Question: Answer: File Transfer Protocol FTP has been around for many…

Introduction Just a few weeks ago Cyber Apocalypse 2022 was being hosted on HackTheBox. Personally, I try to jump into as many of the popular CTF challenges as possible just to gain that required experience. In doing so, I realized I am not used to this style format and needed…

Purpose: A few weeks ago we had created a web application using HTML/PHP which connected to a MySQL database. The database stored a username and password in order to receive a login success message. For this walkthrough we are going to attack it using a few methods. Starting with some…

Purpose: This lab will help strengthen the understanding of SQL injection. In this lab we will create a MySQL database, setup a simple Apache web server and then attack! This lab will continue over several write-ups and Youtube videos. Overtime we will use more advanced techniques to not only attack…

Purpose: Today’s lab will cover installation and setup of an SMB share on an Ubuntu machine. NFS is another option. For my home lab which uses both Windows and Linux machines, SMB is the best choice. For the longest time I would just set up a simple http server using…

I recently had just finished my first certification with the Azure platform (AZ-900) and wanted to jump into some personal projects before moving on to the next (AZ-104). For several months I have been fairly interested in scripting/programming and have heard about Ansible along with a few other solutions to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXuRAY7VMJo Today I passed the AZ-900 certification with ease! In doing so, I thought it would be best to give back to others in sharing my resources. Before I go into what I had used over the two weeks of studying, I wanted to share a brief introduction to how…

Goal Instructional discussion showing how I manage my Minecraft Server. By the end of this discussion you will have the tools necessary to schedule restarts, create and store backups while also keeping it up and running. This will also help you strengthen your understanding of creating bash scripts and utilizing…

A lot is coming my way in 2022. Super excited to hopefully transition into my first professional job within I.T/Cyber outside of the military. Today I just wanted to write what my focus is for 2022 and what I am going to get into throughout the coming months. As noted…

Purpose: As I mentioned yesterday here is the next five levels solved using only python. No walkthroughs were used or references for OverTheWire. Instead all information was from python documentation and other discussion posts relating to python. This has helped me understand the material deeper. Some of the details will…

As I mentioned in one of the original instructions for my first walkthrough on NATAS, I wanted to go at it with Python. My motivation for this was during my initial search on how to complete the objectives using common tools in Kali. While doing so I found a lot…

I recently acquired another Raspberry pi 3b+. Instead of adding it to my homelab and throwing more docker containers on it (I wanted to) I ended up making it a retro gaming console. I decided that it would be a good addition to my collection, allowing me access to all…

I have been wanting to setup something on my local machine to manage all my SSH sessions from one location. I generally am only on one computer managing various VM’s. I previously was running some PowerShell scripts just to open the session but I found Solar-PuTTY to be a good…

A few weeks ago I had received my Raspberry Pi. I purchased the Pi to run some services here at the house. My motivation for this was from a reddit post showing off its dashboard using homer, a docker container. I have not touched docker yet outside of some vulnerable…

It has been a few weeks off of posting, that does not mean the work has stopped! I started my last college course on the 1st of November and will be graduating towards the end of December. Super excited to knock this off my list as it has been a…

As mentioned in a previous discussion I have recently started a Minecraft server. The purpose of this server was to not only have fun but to learn more about Linux. I have a good foundation but I want to continue growing that into a large city! Anyways, the reason I…

Recently as discussed in my last write up I have started a Minecraft Server. Not only did I want to do this for the game aspect but I felt there was a lot of learning that can be had with managing a server. I would say I have a decent…

A quick story to a perfect reason as to why I started a home lab. Although it is not quite what I want, it gets the job done. As it stands I currently do not have a job in I.T. I have always played around for years with different technologies…

Part II of this instructional will help explain the process for setting up a DNS server along with configuring the Active Directory forest we just created in part I. The AD Forest is the location where all information and configuration regarding the network domains, users, computers and group policies are…

This week I was able to set some time aside and get my server back up and running. This server was gifted by someone in the industry who no longer needed it. I am forever grateful for this and hope one day to give back to someone else who is…

I took off of learning anything other then topics related to Security+ for the last several months. I had a goal day for September 20th to become certified. As of September 4th I am now Security+ certified! Super excited to continue on with this journey. So with that being said…

Today we are going to continue our NATAS hack-through. I am really enjoying the Natas wargame. Level 6 When logging into level 6 we find a form that requests a secret to be entered. It also provides us with the source. This helps us understand what is going on behind…

Today we are going to take a look at the NATAS games over at OverTheWire.org. My motivation to start with the NATAS games was to learn and freshen up on some web hacking. I am looking to build a better base for when I go into these various CTF challenges…

Today I took some time to do a quick write up about Bash. I am very interested in programming and scripting. If their is one piece of advice that stuck with me, its the fact that automation is essential. Looking back to a company I worked for briefly, the technician…

Today I set some time aside to set up an entirely new enviornment to continue my learning. For several months I have been running Kali Linux within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). Throughout my time using WSL2 I had several issues arise where I needed a full instance of…