SSSunny Sainiinvillxn.hashnode.dev·1h ago · 29 min readCase File #1: Preparing the Crime SceneHello, Analysts and Attackers 👋 I'm Sunny - I love spending my time into breaking things, figuring out how they work, and then learning how to detect them. Welcome to our series "The Detection Engine00
Cchristoph_baierinquollix.hashnode.dev·19h ago · 3 min readWhy Is Self-Hosting Still So Hard? Professionally, I work as a software developer. I also value privacy, which is why I decided to host my own open-source services at home. While I had some system administration experience, this was my00
Ddelusional-2005inad-deepdives.hashnode.dev·Jul 24 · 6 min read# Building My First Active Directory Lab (And Everything That Went Wrong)When I started my cybersecurity roadmap this summer, "build an AD lab" was just one line item on a checklist. I didn't expect it to become one of the most educational — and most humbling — parts of th00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 9 min readTwo TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designedTwo TrueNAS servers. Same rack. One's on CORE, one's on SCALE. If someone asked me why, the honest answer isn't a design decision. It's a series of arrivals — one workload trigger at a time, each land00
JTJakson Tateinservermo.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 6 min readProxmox GPU Passthrough: Splitting One GPU for Multiple VMsDeploying modern artificial intelligence models or serving remote desktop sessions requires phenomenal graphics processing power. Purchasing dedicated graphics hardware for every single virtual machin00
Ddamienanon14ininfinitedomain.hashnode.dev·Jul 21 · 6 min readFrom the Skip to the Shell: Teaching Myself Bash by AccidentQuick heads up before you dive in: this post gets a bit more technical than my usual ones, since it's literally about how a computer terminal works under the hood. I'm going to try to explain every pi00
Ddamienanon14ininfinitedomain.hashnode.dev·Jul 17 · 4 min readSetting Up a Home Lab Without Breaking the Bank: Pi + Dumpster LaptopSo I had a laptop running Arch Linux. Cool. Now what. A laptop by itself doesn't teach you cybersecurity. You need something to actually attack. Preferably something that won't get you a knock on the 00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 16 · 12 min readOPNsense on bare metal — 18 months as the only perimeterFor most of the homelab's life, there wasn't a firewall. The ISP router did what ISP routers do — NAT out, block unsolicited inbound, don't ask hard questions. That's not zero security. It's just not 00
Mmkdrinmkdr.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 6 min readFinally Building My First HomelabI have always wanted a place where i could host my own services instead of relying on apps that require subscriptions. I have been meaning to build a homelab for myself. A system that I can use to rem00
Ddamienanon14ininfinitedomain.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 4 min readFrom the Skip to the Shell: How I Built a Cybersecurity Lab from a Dumpster FindI found a laptop in a bin. Not metaphorically. An actual bin. It was a Lenovo 100e 2nd Gen, sitting there looking sorry for itself next to someone's old furniture. I picked it up, fully expecting it t00
