When you start seeing Spring Cleaning posts on socials, why not take a day to start “cleaning” with your devices at home? I took the day to review my home lab server and validate it could still run the projects I wanted it to. Below is all the steps I went through while knocking off the cobwebs.. the server has not been online since October of 2024. The problem Outdated server, lab was running Ubuntu 20.

Full disclosure: This is my notes from watching Plantplants, a student mentor at OffSec, on a Twitch live stream. The video will be reposted to OffSec’s youtube soon. Setup After launching the targe machine on the OffSec portal, set a local zsh environment variable to the target IP export IP=10.0.0.2 The variable can then be used in future commands. Recon Plantplants mentioned he liked to do manual enumeration while the all port scan ran in the background.

This website started out as a college project in 2015 to learn about content creation, SEO, and websites. The domain has changed a few times and so has the layout, but the core purpose has always been the same. It is important to be able to articulate, summarize, and present while learning a new topic. Blogging has allowed me to share about my professional development and community involvement. As a decade approaches, my focus is shifting to include guest authors, cross posts, and more in order to bring in those with a similar passion.