Category: Software
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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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Installing Omarchy On VMware Workstation
If you’re trying to run Omarchy on VMware Workstation, you might be experiencing some issues with the GUI after what appears to be a successful installation. With the basic graphics option configured on the virtual machine, Omarchy will boot but then fall to a black screen right after entering the password. Enabling accelerated graphics gets…
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Gathering Windows, PowerShell and Sysmon Events with Winlogbeat – ELK 7 – Windows Server 2016 (Part II)
In part I of this series, Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) on Windows Server 2016, I covered the following: Installing and configuring Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana as Windows services Installing and configuring Winlogbeat to forward logs from the ELK server into ELK Installing and configuring Curator as a scheduled task (optional) Now, in…
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Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) – Windows Server 2016 (Part I)
I am a huge fan of the Elastic stack as it can provide a great deal of visibility into even the largest of environments, which can help enable both engineering and security teams rapidly triage technical issues or incidents at scale. There’s also the fact that unlike Splunk, the Elastic software is free to use…
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ESXi 6.5 – Error Loading /xorg.v00 Fatal Error: 33 (inconsistent data)
The Error During a recent thunderstorm one of the ESXi 6.5 hosts in my lab environment that was not on a UPS, rebooted from a power fluctuation and when it rebooted I received the following error: Error loading /xorg.v00 Compressed MD5: d04cc03dd29bbe3fe547e9566f79674c Decompressed MD5: 00000000000000000000000000000000 As the error indicates, the file /xorg.v00 appears to be…
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PowerEdge R610 – Updating Firmwares When the LifeCycle Controller Fails
Why You Should Always Update Firmwares! Security patches, new features and bug fixes – These are all very good reasons to ensure firmwares are up to date before moving your new servers into production. Things like the BIOS, RAID Controller, iDrac and network controllers will all usually have updates available. Some of these patches may…
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Installing VMware ESXi on an Internal USB?!
One of the things I get the most questions about with my VMware ESXi posts/videos is about installing ESXi onto USB drives and booting it from there, and that question is usually followed by the concern of someone accidentally or even maliciously removing the drive from the chassis. In the case of the Dell PowerEdge…
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Home Lab Setup (2017)
In this post and video I give a quick run down of my Home Lab – everything from the rack itself, to the hardware and the basics of what everything is being used for. I started this project towards the end of 2012 with a single Dell PowerEdge 2950 GII and was hoping to teach…
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ELK Stack – Installing and Configuring Curator
In this post I am going to quickly cover what is needed to get Curator up and running on the ELK stack. In the last few posts about the ELK stack I covered everything needed to get it installed, configured and ingesting logs reliably. If you missed those posts, you can find them here: ELK…
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