Summary I was asked to recover a photo library (~50GB) from a 2008 iMac that wouldn’t stay running long enough to complete a Time Machine backup. After liberating the 3.5 inch hard drive from the ...

Today I will be writing about working with Gitea and the act_runner program to self-host a code repository. This is part of a multi-part series walkthrough for running Gitea and act_runner on a vir...

Joplin is my current note-taking app of choice because markdown notes are easy to read and I like the cross-platform support. Markdown is supported by many applications so there is no threat of bei...

I sought out a way of running .ova files downloaded from VulnHub on Proxmox. The reason for doing so is twofold: first, I can better isolate the virtual machine on my network and second, my main ma...

I recently migrated from a self-hosted Wordpress instance as a CMS to Jekyll. When initially writing posts for Jekyll, my workflow consisted of using the text editor Atom and the Ruby gem bundle to...

Overview Rclone is a tool I recently discovered that allows you to sync files to cloud-based storage. You are not limited to a single cloud destination, either. This guide is focused on installing...

Overview As part of reconnaissance stage of a pentest, you may wish to capture home pages of an organizations’ websites. One option to do just that is HTTPscreenshot. HTTPscreenshot has been toute...

Secure Shell or SSH is a cryptographic network protocol that operates at the application layer of the OSI model. Its typical usage is for remote access to Unix systems. SSH was developed as a repla...

Overview Looking to browse the internet “anonymously” using off-the-shelf hardware? Heading down to your local coffee shop to “borrow” wifi to upload the latest ISIS targets is no longer a viable ...

Overview I recently set up a few servers out in “the cloud.” I needed a way to ship all the logs generated by these hosts to my splunk instance. Since shipping raw syslog data across the internet i...