John, Author at Cyber Me

Dashy Dashboard

Just a few years ago I picked up and moved. The plan is for this to be a permanent location for me to reside and build up an empire. In doing so, the lab had to come down. Which I was super cool with as not much was going on and it was all poorly documented to begin with. Now that I am more settled in when I have time I am looking to build it back up. Today starts with the dashboard. The central component which will keep an abundance of links and information pertinent to the lab. The purpose of this lab will cover the entire process of getting a dashboard setup using none other than Dashy! I actually have not heard of Dashy until just recently. I will say I am a big fan of the dashboard and the developer.

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Scanning for vulnerabilities the right way (OpenVAS)

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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 sure that everything is patched and

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How To Install GreenBone Vulnerability Management (OpenVAS) The Right Way in 2024

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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 my environment for vulnerabilities. At

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How To Get Into Cybersecurity With No Experience

Automate Tenable Security Center | Python script

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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 my life a lot easier.

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NMAP: Unveiling the Power of Network Discovery and Scanning

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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 reconnaissance, vulnerability assessment, and security

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How To: Automate Tasks in Jira using Python and PowerShell

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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. If these are met, the Python

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How to build a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions

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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 of what a DevOps engineer

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Introductory networking lab using Packet Tracer

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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 networking. I have been enjoying

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Weekend Project: Creating first custom docker image and pushing to private repository

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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 said container. For example NextCloud

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