Certification Homelab IoT Penetration Testing Writeup
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Creating a Remote Start IoT Device for my Desktop PC
As I started preparing everything over the last week to ensure I’d be ready for my last semester in undergrad, I thought about how I’d get work done while I was on campus. The laptop I use daily is a ThinkPad T14s Gen1 that I won in a surplus auction running Fedora Linux, and I…
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Building and Securing a Homelab – Segmentation and Implementing a Firewall
Introduction In the first installment of this series, I detailed how I went about creating my virtual network and implementing Wazuh as a SIEM to help me monitor security events on my network. Additionally, I performed a penetration test on the network and looked for indicators of compromise to see what I should be looking…
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Passing Security+ and Next Steps
Around a week ago I sat in a Pearson VUE center for the third time this summer and took the CompTIA Security+ exam, which was the last exam that I had set out to take this summer as part of my goal to prove my skills in the field of cybersecurity. The title of this…
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Building and Securing a Homelab – Initial Creation and Adding a SIEM
Introduction Around a year ago I started on a small project that would allow for me to play around with networking in a way that was very beneficial to me: remote file and terminal access while I was outside of my home network. The way that I implemented this was quite simple, using a Raspberry…
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Passing Network+
During this summer, I made a goal to work towards certifications to demonstrate my ability in various IT concepts, along with learning new concepts that I can apply later on in my career. Initially I started out on a very small scale, taking and passing the ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity exam (which is currently being…
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Creating a Virtual Penetration Testing Lab
The process of creating a virtual lab for hacking into virtual machines is very simple to do, and only requires a few downloads and configurations. There isn’t any required prerequisite knowledge, however it may be beneficial to have an understanding of basic Linux/UNIX terminal commands and installing packages. Let’s dive right in Downloading VirtualBox VirtualBox…