personal Network stats while running Stadia and streaming Top 3 computers by network activity on my home network.I like viewing usage stats for my home network and comparing just how much data each device is using compared to other devices. For example I would have always thought my Plex server would
home projects Unifi Cameras Unifi Cameras, Dream Machine Pro, Unifi PoE SwitchI avoided tech for most of my holiday break but the one tech project I did do and was super excited about was setting up our new Unifi camera system. This system required me to upgrade my
advent of cyber Advent Of Cyber - Grinding to Catch Up I took a break from TryHackMe and the Advent of Cyber because the last couple of weeks before the holidays were extremely busy and I was pretty burned out with tech. I ended up spending most of the holidays away from my PC and
advent of cyber Advent of Cyber: Day 5 Review Difficulty: Medium Exploits Explored: SQL injection Tools: BurpSuite, SQLMap Sticking Point: Exporting captures from BurpSuite to SQLMap Something Learned: Combining BurpSuite and SQLMap Day 5's challenge involves breaking into Santa's forums using SQLi and dumping the database to find the hidden flag. I got
pentest Advent of Cyber: Day 4 Review Difficuly: Easy Tactics Explored: fuzzing and bruteforcing URL paths Tools: GoBuster and WFuzz Sticking point: passing data to API Something learned: Fuzzing something other than passwords This image was pretty cool for the victim site.Todays challenge is my favorite so far. Story wise
advent of cyber Advent of Cyber: Day 3 Review Difficulty: easy Tactics Explored: Attacking a login form with Burpsuite Sticking Point: Only start the Burpsuite capture before entering the credentials. The instructions confused me and I kept trying to capture when initially visiting the page. Capture password details that I entered. I tried
tryhackme Advent of Cyber: Day 2 Review Difficulty: very-easy Vulnerability Explored: reverse shells Sticking point: Trying to copy and paste my flag from my attack machine to tryhackme. Turns out you can access the attack machines clipboard in the left sidebar :) only slightly spoiler-ish. The flag isn't shown.The theme of
advent of cyber Advent of Cyber: Day 1 Review Difficulty: very easy Theme: Loved the elf & santa theme Where I got stuck: The question where you're asked what format the data is stored in for the cookie. It came down to Javascript and how JS stores data. Tryhackme.com released their Christmas
blog updates Blog recreated I ended up dropping the database for this blog and starting fresh. I ran into database issues after an update and the data wasn't worth the amount of time it would take to fix. Lesson learned, export blog contents before any major update. That