I was handed this vm as part of my bi-weekly VM hacking group. Step 1: I began by running an nmap scan to find the IP address of the VM using the command: nmap 10.0.0.0/24 The /24 means I want to scan for addresses from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.255: Step 2…

Continuing the Symfonos series, here is my write up of Symfonos 3. Step 1: I started off by running the following nmap scan to enumerate ports and services: nmap -A -p- 192.168.142.130 It appears there is only 3 services available, FTP, SSH, and a web page. …

We are going through the whole Symfonos series in my Vulnerable Box hacking group at work. Here’s a step by step write up for Symfonos 2. Step 1: The box is at 192.168.142.129 on my network. I’ll start of enumerating it with nmap: nmap -A -p- 192.168.142.129 The -A switch…

In thinking about my home network design, from an early stage my goal was to have an environment that compared to an enterprise environment. My near term goal with information security is to master the fundamentals, and I saw this project as a great way for me to do that…

It’s been a bit since my last post. I’ve been doing some deep diving in a new VM hacking group I am a member of at work (I have a Symfonos 1 write up in the works), but I wanted to circle back to my project of inspecting and controlling…

I am still on this quest to control the web traffic that comes into my home, and I decided I needed to go deeper. When I attended John Strand’s ‘Intro to SOC’ class through Wild West Hackin’ Fest he spoke about having Zeek and Rita installed on a Raspberry Pi…

My 2.5 year old daughter has recently discovered YouTube on the tablet she likes to watch videos on. We do a good job of monitoring the content she is viewing, but as it pertains to advertising I wanted more control over the content she is being exposed to. My Help…