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In an effort to gain another cert this year, this past month I took SANS SEC542 and completed the GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT) certification.

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A great time was had

Am I a cool infosec person yet

As I’ve talked about previously, all compute workloads in my homelab are run on an older HP Z620 workstation.

S3Scanner gains a glowing recommendation

Time to put up or shut up

The Issue # Yesterday when trying to transfer an ISO file from a TrueNAS SMB share, I was getting horrible transfer speeds.

#FuckStalkerware pt. 3 - ownspy got, well, owned maia.crimew.gay article stalkerware web exploit Part 3 of a series of hacktivist posts examining stalkerware apps from the inside out.

There is a note in Apple Notes on my phone that I cannot open.

Background # This is a new thing I’m trying out - a list of links to articles, videos, podcasts or anything else that I’ve come across recently that I think are very interesting.

Contributing to Homebrew - so easy a caveman could do it

I started my homelab almost 10 years ago.

Learning new tech is hard.

How fast can we validate a large text file of JSON?

There are a few different ways to run Docker on Proxmox.

I have an account on Tumblr, though I seem to be one of the few people still on the site.

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AttackDefense is a new site with all sorts of awesome labs and CTFs for training.

I was fortunate enough to attend the 2018 Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis, MN.

Note: If you are currently trying to get access to this box, I highly recommend you try it yourself first and only use this guide if you really are stuck.

Update: May 14, 2019 This article originally contained instructions for running Oracle 12c.

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Contact # Mastodon Github Email: dan(at)salmon(dot)cat

A coworker recently sent me a link to Yet Another Cryptocurrency.

If you run ZFS like I do (and I think you should) there will probably come at time when you need to migrate a dataset from one volume to another.

Student Breakfast - MN IT Services w/ Chris Buse # $400M budget for MNIT 0% unemployment rate MNIT wants to train/develop IT skills.

Prepare Wireless Card # View Network Cards: iwconfig Kill Wireless Processes: airmon-ng check kill View Networks # airodump-ng wlan0 Capture traffic # airodump-ng --bssid 04:A1:51:9F:98:BB --wps --write ISSO-WPA2 --channel 6 wlan0 where: --bssid - MAC of

Note: This article is not just a stringent comparison of Apple vs Android, but a look at the whole picture that I took while deciding which phone to switch to.

Background # I recently picked up a Chromecast for my TV so I could stream Netflix easier since XBMC’s addon is terrible if you don’t want to use a keyboard.

Projects # S3scanner - Scan for open S3 buckets and dump contents miniprint - A medium interaction printer honeypot 🍯 venmo-data - A dataset of 7 million transactions scraped from the Venmo public API Vulnerabilities # CVE-2025-27422 - Authentication Bypa…

Background # A few months back, I was doing cleanup on a system that I had cleaned of malware.

Step 1 # From an elevated PowerShell window issue the following command to gather some information about our current network profile: Get-NetConnectionProfile Name : Unidentified Network InterfaceAlias : Ethernet InterfaceIndex : 10 NetworkCategory : Pub…

Requirement Note: Android Studio requires an Intel processor with VT-X support for it’s built-in emulators to work.

While attempting a “rails new” command, I was greeted with this lovely message: An error occurred while installing rake (10.4.2), and Bundler cannot continue.

Background # I recently forgot my password for SickRage and was surprised by the little documentation online.

Intro / Credits # After much work and starting from scratch a few times, I finally got a working jail put together that uses ruTorrent, rTorrent, and Lighttpd to create a very nice personal seedbox in FreeNAS.