I am a father, husband, infosec something, and now blogger. This page is to help me understand by writing things down, and hopefully in turn maybe help out some other people along the way.
See that avatar image I have above? I stole it from a cartoon one day and now for the life of me I can't find where I stole it from. I've tried reverse image search and Google Lens and just googling words but I can't find it. If someone knows what it is from please please let me know, you can message me on twitter. I don't like stealing content but the picture just really illustrates my general view of everything
Sometimes it’s necessary to change the public IP address of a cloud deployed system. I had need to do that recently and wanted to be able to do it again on a regular basis, here we go.
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Change workspace with touchpad on Linux
Why won't they just buy me a mac?
I was recently supplied with a new work laptop and chosen to go with a Linux base OS (specifically Kali 2019.4 in this instance). I’ve traditionally always worked from a mac and so enjoy being able to navigate my various workspaces using the touchpad alone hwever with Linux this isn’t...
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Proxtop Pentest Lab Part 2 - Windows 10 Clients
The enemy of a secure system
Today we’ll be letting the enemy in. Whenever conducting pentests it’s often the human side of the business that fails the infrastructure. If we just had computers running the place it would all be fine but nooooo someone thought it would be a good idea to let people on the...
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Proxtop Pentest Lab Part 1 - Windows Server 2016
oh here comes this guy - wooooooooo
Now that the Proxtop has a basic setup and network config ready to go it’s time to start loading on our hosts. We’ll start with the server.
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Proxtop Pentest Lab Part 0 - Initial Configuration
Networking, Storage, Where on earth is it?
Now that we have Proxmox installed on the Proxtop (that’s what i’m calling it now) it’s time to get an understanding of how things in Proxmox work and how we’re going to get our lab configured.
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