Posted inTHM - Ignite
THM – Ignite
The Ignite room, tagged as "easy" really does not have a lot of instructions on the page itself apart from a generic "A new start-up has a few issues with…
Posted inCybersecurity
CyberSecurity and Red Teaming (Notes)
Google Doc link to most of my notes - this is mostly for quick reference and will not make much sense on a quick read-through I am planning to start…
Posted inHardware Publish Raspberry Pi
Sandisk USB 3.1 PenDrive and Raspberry Pi (4b) based Wireless NAS for the Macbook (MacOS Ventura)
My weekend task this week was simple! A Sandisk and Raspberry Pi based NFS/NAS wireless mount for my MacBook :-) Hardware used: 3 nos Raspberry Pi 4b (wireless) Sandisk USB…
Posted inAWS Clouds, Infra and Observations Opensource
How to build a self-hosted VPN server on AWS
A VPN server allows you to connect using a secure tunnel.This has a couple of benefits. First, you sort of have control over your data. And it also allows you…
Raspberry Pi K8s/K3s/Kubernetes Cluster from scratch – the easy way!
The Raspberry Pi has always been a capable little computer, and with the Raspberry Pi 4 series, we now have Wifi, Bluetooth etc along with 8 Gb RAM - a…
Posted inClouds, Infra and Observations Posts Publish
The Four Major Cloud Trends That Will Make an Impact in 2022
The cloud is one of the most important innovations in recent years. It has completely changed the way we compute and store data. The future of the cloud holds many…
Posted inApple
Understanding an IOS/Apple iPhone “exploit”
Apple exploits (and for that matter, any platform exploits) are a plenty. But most of them are fun, and as long as you can play around with them and understand…
Posted inHacking
Anatomy of a good Social Engineering/Phishing attack!
Social Engineering and Phishing has been around for donkeys' years now. While really sophisticated attacks are usually designed and prepped months, sometimes years in advance, and can be brutally effective,…
esxtop annoyances – MAC
esxtop does not like to work on the Mac out of the box. And this has nothing to do with the OS itself! Read on to find out what exactly…
Posted inEverything Else Publish
The Facebook Conundrum
This is a non technical blog. Well, "technical", if you are into systems and processes though. The whole Facebook WhatsApp Instagram Signal Telegram conversation and mess essentially ended up in…
Posted inHardware Publish Raspberry Pi
Sandisk USB 3.1 PenDrive and Raspberry Pi (4b) based Wireless NAS for the Macbook (MacOS Ventura)
My weekend task this week was simple! A Sandisk and Raspberry Pi based NFS/NAS wireless mount for my MacBook :-) Hardware used: 3 nos Raspberry Pi 4b (wireless) Sandisk USB…
Posted inTHM - Ignite
THM – Ignite
The Ignite room, tagged as "easy" really does not have a lot of instructions on the page itself apart from a generic "A new start-up has a few issues with…
Posted inCybersecurity
CyberSecurity and Red Teaming (Notes)
Google Doc link to most of my notes - this is mostly for quick reference and will not make much sense on a quick read-through I am planning to start…
Posted inAWS Clouds, Infra and Observations Opensource
How to build a self-hosted VPN server on AWS
A VPN server allows you to connect using a secure tunnel.This has a couple of benefits. First, you sort of have control over your data. And it also allows you…
Raspberry Pi K8s/K3s/Kubernetes Cluster from scratch – the easy way!
The Raspberry Pi has always been a capable little computer, and with the Raspberry Pi 4 series, we now have Wifi, Bluetooth etc along with 8 Gb RAM - a…
Posted inClouds, Infra and Observations Posts Publish
The Four Major Cloud Trends That Will Make an Impact in 2022
The cloud is one of the most important innovations in recent years. It has completely changed the way we compute and store data. The future of the cloud holds many…
Posted inApple
Understanding an IOS/Apple iPhone “exploit”
Apple exploits (and for that matter, any platform exploits) are a plenty. But most of them are fun, and as long as you can play around with them and understand…
Posted inHacking
Anatomy of a good Social Engineering/Phishing attack!
Social Engineering and Phishing has been around for donkeys' years now. While really sophisticated attacks are usually designed and prepped months, sometimes years in advance, and can be brutally effective,…
esxtop annoyances – MAC
esxtop does not like to work on the Mac out of the box. And this has nothing to do with the OS itself! Read on to find out what exactly…
Posted inEverything Else Publish
The Facebook Conundrum
This is a non technical blog. Well, "technical", if you are into systems and processes though. The whole Facebook WhatsApp Instagram Signal Telegram conversation and mess essentially ended up in…
Resetting esxi root password
OK, so people are reaching out for resetting ESXi password as the old blog of mine isn't there anymore http://www.vdsyn.com/resetting-the-root-password-for-esxi-5-x/ Ok this was on ESXi 6.5 - need to test…
Posted inEverything Else Publish
Facebook and Privacy
Let's face it (see what I did there?) a lot of people are actually leaving Facebook. I know I have, and it hasn't been as easy. It has been hard.…
Can ESXi hosts upgrade via Commandline on Nutanix?
Well, this is thoroughly a fun pet experiment - just to tinker around and see what breaks :-) Should you be trying this on a prod cluster? Holy !@#$ no!…
Upgrading ESXi 7.0.x from the command line
So, you are done with https://www.thevfanatic.com/understanding-esxi-7-0-1-upgrades-command-line/ and are now aching to see what a successful upgrade looks like? Fear not! We have a successful upgrade to feast our eyes on!…
Understanding ESXi 7.0.1 upgrades – command line
So ESXi upgrades can be done in a variety of ways. You could use the Update manager, use the ISO in IPMI - but then the most fun way (for…
Those Pesky ESXi 7.0.x log files :-)
Well, ESXi 7.0 is upon us, and so are new Logs :-) If you have been poking around the ESXi's guts and can't comprehend what those shiny new logs are,…
Posted inEverything Else Publish
Chrome – NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID
Ever tried setting up a Nutanix or VMware lab and Chrome just cr*ps out on you? With nonsense like "Your connection is not private" NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID - whatever in God's name…
IPMI time zone using ipmitool
Using ipmitool to find BMC/IPMI timezone that is set
Enabling the Hyper V role in Windows 10
If you are looking for a free desktop virtualization solution and you are running Windows 10, well, in a pinch, you can actually create and run a fully functional Hyper…
