With my new router (Ubiquiti Dream Machine) finally here, I’ve done a pretty major overhaul of my homelab. In my humble setup, I have four main devices that I’m using at the moment: my desktop, my laptop, my phone, and my server. Devices The desktop has been recently

As you can guess from the title, I’ve been dabbling into the world of the Cisco CLI. As a Linux user, I’m familiar with the idea of a CLI, and I’ve been looking forward to playing around with some configurations in CLI. I just finished the basics

It’s been a while since I posted here, so I thought I’d give an update as to what I’ve been studying. Unfortunately, my schedule hasn’t quite worked itself out to the point where I can start buckling down and study for the CCNA, but I have

I meant to post a while back, but life got in the way. I was on vacation at the beginning of July and then the week back from that was busier than I anticipated so I wasn’t able to get something up in time. I’m going to try

ZeroTier Now that my server is up and running (and in RAID 1+0 instead of RAID0), my first order of business is to setup a way for me to access my Proxmox server from outside my home network. Enter ZeroTier. Honestly this is one of the coolest things I’

The Specs I got a server! It’s an old one, but it’ll do. I have big plans for this server, and I’m excited to get it up and running. The server is an old HP ProLiant DL380 G6. It has two Intel Xeon 6-core processors for a

I mentioned in my first official post here that I’m going for the CCNA certification. I haven’t scheduled it yet, but my goal is to take it sometime in the next 6-8 months. Once I set an exam date I’ll have more of a formal study plan,

This was originally posted on my old GitHub page on June 5th, 2021 A+ Thoughts and Next Certification I recently took my CompTIA A+, both the 1001 and the 1002 exams, and I was able to pass first time! I’ll be giving some of my thoughts here, obviously without

This was originally posted on my old GitHub page on May 1st, 2021 When I originally started this blog, it was to hold CTF writeups as a way of tracking my progress toward the OSCP. While I still hold the long term goal of getting the OSCP, and still want

This post was originally posted on my GitHub site on July 31st, 2020. This is an easy box on TryHackMe. Here’s a screenshot of the tasks we’re given to solve: Looks pretty straightforward to me so let’s get started by making some directories. I’ll make a

This post was originally published on my old GitHub website on July 16,2020 This is a medium difficulty box that’s part of the Offensive Security Path on TryHackMe. For those of you who don’t know, TryHackMe is a great website that not only has great CTFs, but

First of all, if you’re reading this I appreciate it. I just want to inform any readers that this website is actually a second iteration of a personal website. The first site I had hosted over on GitHub. That site was almost all ctf writeups with the exception of