In late January 2024, I started the Google Cybersecurity Certificate program through Coursera. I took notes throughout the course and posted them here, starting with the first of eight courses in ...

This year I plan to get three CompTIA certifications, commonly known as the trifecta: A+, Network+, and Security+. Following is a cost breakdown for the ‘Basic Bundle’ for each cert. This comes wi...

Link to room. There’s another nmap room here, which might be more in depth. Link to nmap. One of the first questions asks what is the first switch listed in the help menu for a ‘Syn Scan’. sh nma...

Main Desktop PC Win10 / Kali Linux Main Laptop Lenovo ThinkPad T540P 16GB RAM Kali Linux / Win11 Old Laptop Samsung something something Intel Core i3-2350M @ 2.30GHz 8GB RAM MX Linux ‘Libretto’

Download the OpenVPN config file from TryHackMe. Open it in a text editor. Add the following line under cipher AES-256-CBC: data-ciphers AES-256-CBC. Save the file and try again with OpenVPN. No...

These are notes from my journey through TryHackMe’s free rooms. Here are my notes from the Linux Fundamentals Part 3 room. This room is more intense than the first two. Learn the ps command. To ...

Inspired by this post, I’ll work through each room and provide explanations along the way. Level 1 - Getting Started Before getting started with challenges and CTFs (Capture the Flags), we recomm...

Here is a link to the room TryHackme Intro to Offensive Security Room Start the machine. Grab the IP address of the machine. In my case, it’s 10.10.194.153. Log into that machine. I’m using Open...

It’s a simple process. I followed the steps outline in the free room at TryHackMe called OpenVPN. Here is how I connected to TryHackMe’s servers through Linux: Go to TryHackMe’s access page. Down...

I came across this article that predicts cybercrime costs to surge from $8 trillion to over $20 trillion per year by 2027. Those are ridiculous numbers. Some of these stats seems to be backed up....