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 base understanding of Linux so […]
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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 and programming languages but never
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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 stored. The DNS server is
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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 learning. This post is going
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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 it is back to the
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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 the scenes. In a live
OverTheWire [NATAS Levels 6-10] Read More »
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 and continue my journey into
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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 was doing a job which
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 Kali. For example, Wireshark was
Setting up the “Lab” Read More »