Category: Servers
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Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 3: Atomic Red Team
Intro Additional Modules Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 1: Lab Overview & Outline Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 2: EDR Deployment Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 3: Atomic Red Team Atomic Red Team Atomic Red Team is an open-source project featuring a library of atomic tests combined with a…
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Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 2: EDR Deployment
Intro Additional Modules Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 1: Lab Overview & Outline Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 2: EDR Deployment Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 3: Atomic Red Team The Elastic Container Project The Elastic Container Project will serve as our Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) solution for…
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Building A Purple Team Lab – Module 1: Lab Overview & Outline
Overview This will be a multi-part series focused on setting up a Purple Team lab with the following high-level goals in mind: Locally hosted using open-source software where possible (Free) Deploy & configure an Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) solution Gain hands on experience testing basic red team tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) on Windows…
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Trilium Notes – Self-Hosted Server Setup
I’ve been looking for a OneNote alternative for a few years now, but haven’t been able to find anything that combines the same basic functionality with a simple, clean interface. As I’m increasingly moving away from Microsoft products, I realized it was time to find a dedicated solution and stick with it. I’m excited to…
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Revisiting Purple Teaming AD with BloodHound CE & AD-Miner
A few months ago, I published a blog post that involved managing Bloodhound CE with Docker Compose: Purple Teaming AD with BloodHound CE & AD-Miner Since then, BloodHound CE has seen some pretty significant improvements, including new tools to simplify container management. Because of this, I wanted to revisit this setup and put together an…
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Home Lab (2025)
It’s been a while since I’ve made a video, and even longer since I’ve shown my home lab setup! I’ve been doing some cleaning and thinking about upgrades, so I figured now would be a good time to show where everything currently stands.
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Windows EDR: Telemetry & Sensors – Mind Map
I recently read Evading EDR by Matt Hand. While not a lengthy book, it’s technically dense and packed with tons of valuable information about Windows and EDR internals. It’s a fantastic resource, and I highly recommend it: Evading EDR by Matt Hand To help solidify my understanding of the concepts and apply them in future…
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Ultimate Local AI Setup Guide: Ubuntu, Ollama, & Open WebUI
Intro & Background It seems safe to say that artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), are here to stay. As a cybersecurity professional, it has been pretty easy to find use cases for AI in my daily work, from general penetration testing and writing tools to forensics and reverse engineering. However, as with…
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Purple Teaming AD with BloodHound CE & AD-Miner
BloodHound is one of those tools that everyone in the industry seems to have heard of and it tends to generate a buzz amongst engineers anytime it’s brought up. This reputation is well-deserved with it being such a game changer when it comes to attacking and auditing Active Directory domains. Every organization running Active Directory…
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Analyzing & Detecting IIS Backdoors
IIS Extensions As Backdoors Microsoft recently published an interesting blog explaining how they’ve noticed a new trend where attackers have been leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions to covertly backdoor Windows servers: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/07/26/malicious-iis-extensions-quietly-open-persistent-backdoors-into-servers/ The Microsoft post contains a wealth of information on this topic, but I really wanted to dig through the specifics in order…
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