My beginning experiences with Docker

TL;DR: Mount a easy to find directory as the _/data_ directory on your Docker container unless you want to go down the rabbit hole of “Why isn’t it easier to find my container’s files?” Hey all, with my recent entry into the whole homelabbing scene, one of the key technologies that I wanted to learn more and try out was containerization. With all the tech buzz words that are out in the world, containerization has to be one of the most often used. Sure the word itself containerization lends itself to how the technology operates at a high level, but how does it work at a lower level? Will it replace VMs? How easy is it really to make changes to a “container” and then send it to someone? Who is this aimed at? Why are there socks at the end of my bed? ...

June 2, 2024 · 5 min · 1058 words · perfectra1n

My first blog post

Hi! This is some more example text lol. git clone https://github.com/zadam/trilium

June 2, 2024 · 1 min · 11 words · perfectra1n

My OSCP journey

As is cliche for all network security students that enroll in PWK/OSCP, I’ve decided to share my experience, in this crazy, long, wild ride. If you take away nothing else from this post, remember this from the post below: I had written the report from an incorrect point of view. I needed to write the report from the point of view of a help desk intern. Someone that knew how to copy and paste, move files, and change directories. I needed to write it from the point of view of someone that knew nothing more. ...

June 2, 2024 · 18 min · 3761 words · perfectra1n

Penetration Test Report Notes

These are just some notes that may be useful for anyone creating any kind of report, after performing a penetration test, Record for the duration of the test in high quality so that screenshots can be made from it later, but at a lower FPS so that it doesn’t bog down your machine. Screenshot EVERYTHING. Only format the text of the unmodified and modified exploit code nicely, and place into the report. ...

June 2, 2024 · 3 min · 477 words · perfectra1n

Setting up a router / gateway as a VM in ESXi

I recently decided to completely go off the deep end and try a router OS like pfSense. This would replace my current EdgeRouter X, which I absolutely love and still adore, but I wanted to try something a little different. What would it be like to take the Ethernet cable from the modem, and plug it straight into my server? Doing some research in the r/homelab subreddit, I found out that if you do not dedicate a NIC (Network Interface Card) to the virtual machine, it will crank all the CPU threads that are allocated to it, to 100%. So I bought a cheap, but still decent gigabit, two port, Intel NIC. The NIC arrived, I turned off my server, unracked it, opened it up, and completely forgot that the server did not come with a PCIe riser. ...

June 2, 2024 · 3 min · 554 words · perfectra1n