Like any sensible cybersecurity professional with entirely normal hobbies, I occasionally spin up a small digital nation-state of VMs on my Fedora desktop. Usually they behave. Usually. Then one day, without warning, they staged a coordinated rebellion. This post chronicles how my Fedora workstation decided to reinvent network segmentation, how libvirt lost its memory of…
Why bother? Markdown is much easier and faster to work with than building HTML, or WordPress blocks, so my personal theory is that I might actually post more if I make it easier for myself. Also it is an excuse to play with automation and AI. Do we need more of a reason then that?…
It wasn’t just one thing that prompted me to switch it was a number of factors. Microsoft’s latest feature “Recall” just happened to be the straw that broke the camels back here. Though it is a heavy piece of straw in and of itself. Like a lot of people I was getting tired of the…
This is a longer post so here is a Table of Contents Migration Attempt #Two So this is my second attempt to migrate away from VMware’s platform. This one went better then last time, though there were some causalities along the way. Namely all my Windows VMs. The reason for the migration has not changed,…
The Backstory It is coming up on time to renew my VMug advantage, but with VMware dropping support for a lot of older hardware, plus Broadcom’s statement about not really caring about any one but their 5 biggest customers. I figure I should migrate to a more open source solution, plus my wallet will feel…
So I rebuilt my computer about 4 months ago and I run Windows 10 for my primary desktop. When I did that I decided to also implement some security best practices. Namely not always running as an account with admin permissions. Here is my summary of that experience. Configuration and Setup Immediately after rebuilding I…
So I had an issue where I wanted to host multiple websites behind a single web address/IP address. I knew this was possible to do, but I didn’t know how. I also wanted it to be secured by HTTPS, which would require a redirect of all HTTP traffic. I stitched together the following. I commented…
What we are actually doing This is a guide that walks you though decrypting a Bitlocker encrypted drive when you need to perform startup repair and don’t have the recovery key. What you need Background info So I had a problem this morning, my computer ran updates last night and some Windows startup files got…
This assumes you already have expanded the hard drive within VMware or VirtualBox, or whatever your virtualization solution you use. You will also need to make sure parted is installed on the system you are working on. This guide is using GNU parted 3.1 Disclaimer: Parted is a partition modification tool make sure you have…
So I have some disks I got from a friend, he got them off ebay and they didn’t work for him, he couldn’t get his RAID controller to format them at all. After doing some research I came to the conclusion he didn’t have the equipment needed to reformat them. I offered to buy them…
