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…
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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 inOpensource Terraform
Terminating or destroying a build
To remove/terminate or destroy a build, it pretty simple. You use the terraform destroy command ayan@Epoch:~/terraform$ terraform destroy aws_instance.example: Refreshing state... (ID: i-065b6f952bd9dc3e0) An execution plan has been generated and…
Posted inOpensource Publish Terraform
Getting Started with Terraform
Now that we have Terraform installed, let us see what it is actually capable of. Terraform is an Infrastructure automation tool and works with AWS, GCP (Google Cloud), Azure, Alibaba…
Posted inOpensource Publish Terraform
Terraform
What is Terraform? Terraform is an Infrastructure provisioning tool. This supports multiple clouds and currently, I am dabbling with it on Amazon Cloud (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), Azure and Alibaba…
