Not even close!

Well, it has been another week more or less and I am taking baby steps to getting my stuff together.  I have spun up a couple more services and watched a lot of YouTube videos/zoom meetings on cybertech.  Today's zoom meeting had my head spinning at the end of it due to the technical nature of the subject.  I have got some stuff done as far as the homelab.  Upgraded the r620 to 96 gigs of ram and now need to see how to best over provision it with LXC's and VM's.  I am being told not to use LXC's if I don't have to but you get so much bang for your buck using them not sure how I am going to back off on them, we will see.....

Now to get security onion setup as well as blackubuntu.  May also work on Splunk and bloodhound but I need to focus on getting Wazuh learned well.  It is hard but I guess if it was easy anyone could do it. 😁

Happy Wednesday 😀

Almost there

I have been working on a lot in the last several days.  Also watching a lot of tech videos.  I mean a lot of videos, lol!  Learning a lot but not quite there yet.  I have been all over the place with what I am working on which will have to stop here soon.  I have been doing a lot on the Proxmox server but need to update the ram in it to go further.  Mini server I have been doing a lot on with Portainer and the containers I have running on it.  I almost got VM's working on it but not yet on the mini server.  I need to circle back to Wazuh and all that it entails (powershell, sysmon, virustotal and a touch of wireshark).  I have also been working with runZero which is an interesting product, I guess!  

I have been thinking about installing security onion and greylog on Proxmox to kick the tires on them.  Maybe if I get adventurous this week, lol!  So much to learn and so little time!

Happy Wednesday 😀

Wazuh!

Okay

I did not get the mini server done but that is due to me using it 18 hours out of the day.  I hope and pray that does not come back and bite me later but oh well!  I have backed up the dockers containers as well as the 2 apps I use for video playback (Jellyfin and Plex), I also got VLC setup on my network as a backup just in case.  Not the same as Plex but I can play my videos from any tv in my house without issue.  Which I have been doing a lot of the last couple of days.  Learning a lot especially with Proxmox and Wazuh.  Yes, I finally got Wazuh spun up on the dell r610 in Proxmox after watching several videos before and after it was installed.  I still have a lot of work with getting it configured and wow it was definitely a learning curve trying to use it on just 2 computers running the agent.  I want to install the agent on the docker containers and the other VM's I have running on the r610.  I hope to get better over the next couple of weeks.  

Happy Tuesday 😀

Not much this week

Well, I did not get much done last week.  Just watching videos on sysmon, powershell and linux commands.

I still have not replaced my hdd in my mini server with a ssd.  I will complete that this week for sure, lol!  I had a scare today with running system updates on that box and it hosing up trying to update Jellyfin.  It prompted my to reboot when I saw the error message in the logs but that did not work, uh oh!  I had to take a deep breath and test the rest of my services running on that box and all was good but Jellyfin would not come up after several minutes.  So, I reran the system update command and that seems to have fixed it.  Whew!!!!

I have a backup of the database that I have not tested but this week would have sucked if I had to go that method.  I should switch it to a docker container, so it is easier to backup but oh well.  I think I need to spin up docker containers for plex and jellyfin and migrate my stuff to them.  It would have to be on the r610 in proxmox.  Hearing about several tools for pentesting online that I need to look into soon.  Learning a lot as of late.

Happy Tuesday 😀

Last Week Very Interesting

Okay

I did not get my mini server hdd replaced nor wazuh setup last week but I did get some other important things accomplished.

Installed a couple of services on my mini server ( iperf3 and drawio ), watched a lot of videos on setting up wazuh, winget, powershell/linux tutorials.  I worked on setting on a hacking lab on both of my laptops using virtualbox.  I also learned something important about using clonezilla, a 500 gig SSD and a 480 gig SSD are not workable if you are going from 500 gig hdd to 480 ssd and I have to remember to use gparted when I go from a 256 gig ssd to a 480 gig ssd.  I need to find a disk copying tool that is less complex.  Live and learn🤔 

Happy Monday 😀!

Must do better this week

Okay

I did not get everything done I scheduled to get done but I did get some things worked out.  I think I know why I am not able to print from a windows computer to my print server.  Needless to say, windows users take a lot for granted!  Microsoft literally holds your hands when it comes to setting up devices in their environment while linux expects you to just know how hardware, software and the kernel interact in it's environment; but I did shoot myself in the foot by going headless for ubuntu server.  I probably would not had a problem if I had went gui with the ubuntu server install.  Oh well, the benefits far out weight the pain points using it headless.  I may be able to get the printing issue resolved today.  Also need to work on the HDD upgrade for the mini server.  SSD came in lastnight and I will try to get done in a day or so.

Here's to a new week!

Happy Monday 😀

Better Late Than Never, lol!

Well I did not get done everything I planned out on my todo list last week.

Oh well, such as life!

MS Sql Server  Done

Wireshark  Done

Nmap  Done

Proxmox (Kind of done, I chickened out on upgrading Proxmox from 8 to 9 but I did get it updated for 8)

Install Wazuh  (Unfortunately, this was a no go)  Need to find a system that has the resources for setup) 

Training modules for PowerShell, Linux fundamental's and Python   Done

Upgrade mini server's hard drive to an SSD  (not done due to the SSD that I have being to small) Amazon

Possible upgrade Portainer and Immich   Done

Work on using Notion as a note taking solution (?)  Done

I did get my windows server 2022 updated

I got netdata installed but still working on figuring out how to use it

I also got the mini server backed up to an image even though I was not able to get the image moved to the SSD.  The current HDD is 500 gigs and the SSD is 480 gigs.  Clonezilla did not like that for the two ways it has to image and restore to a new drive.  Oh well, I have to order a 500 gig SSD from Amazon, ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week working on getting 500 gig SSD for drive upgrade for mini server and need to work on getting Wazuh installed on a box here, fun!!!!

Trying to learn using a lot of the pentesting tools like zeek, rita, backstorm, gobuster and possibly burbsuite.

Baby steps!!!

Happy Tuesday 😀

Another Monday

New start

Things to accomplish this week

Work on the following:

MS Sql Server

Wireshark

Nmap

Proxmox

Install Wazuh

Training modules for PowerShell, Linux fundamental's and Python

Upgrade mini server's hard drive to an SSD

Possible upgrade Portainer and Immich

Work on using Notion as a note taking solution (?)

More to come

Happy Monday 😀

Printer Snafu!

Learned a lot today.  Spent 2 hours today working on my printer issue in Linux.  After changing the cups config file roughly 15 times I am finally able to print from the console page, but I did have the working after the first change, lol!  Me being me decided after I was able to print from the console page to modify the cups config file and enable Kerberos which caused a royal pain in my butt.  I wasn't locked out of the console, but I was not able to make changes to the config file from the console, granted I usually do that from the command line anyway.  Enabling Kerberos made printing and making changes from the console impossible.  So, I tried to change the file for the block of text under Kerberos.  12 + changes later I decided to look at the backup file for the config file that I had fortunately backed up before I first modified it and I was off to the races.  In the end I soon discovered in order to turn off Kerberos I had to modify the entry at the top of the file under "DefaultAuthType" and vola it was working again.  I am so glad I back up my config files before I modified them . It is worth it.  Also learned that the drivers for my printer are deprecated and will probably not work after the next upgrade of cups.  Oh well, I will have to cross that bridge when I get to it.

Happy Tuesday 😀

A New Day

Well, it is a new day, and I have made a decision on the pursuit of working on new projects.  I wasted several days trying to get the Wyze bridge project to work because all the videos I watched made it so simple to get setup in their environment.  It looks like Wyze has done something on their end to prevent this project from working.  Now I have to make sure I don't chase my tail on new projects when they don't quite work the way they are supposed to work, lol!

Lessons learned!

Happy Thursday 😬