Month: October 2021

Uncategorized

Status Report 20211004

WHAT HAVE I BEEN UP TO?

The Journey Continues…

It’s been quite a while since I’ve revisited my website. I’ve been continuing to learn, hack, play, tinker, and do whatever else I can find. My journey to the OSCP goal has taken an alternative route, but I see it as a great one. When I started that journey, I was in a job where I had some free time, and planned to take 30 days to simply take the course (complete all the OSCP labs), and finish up the certification. Since then, I’ve found myself in a much more demanding job and can’t aford to take the 30 days required to give at least 40 hours a week to only hacking. As a result, I continue to hack on the "Hack The Box" system, and persue more obtainable goals related to the time that I can dedicate.

Continue Reading

BACKUPS

BitBlaze Transactions – save costs

BITBLAZE

BitBlaze was costing me over $65/month when storage is so cheap… why?

NOTE: Reference: https://www.backblaze.com/

BackBlaze is an amazing off-site storage solution. Keep in mind that when you set this up, you should encrypt your files from the source before uploading them to backblaze. TrueNAS makes this extremely easy to do using "Cloud Sync Tasks" under the Tasks menu. After creating a BackBlaze account, create a B2 bucket. Then, add an API to it that can be used in your TrueNAS system. You can use those APIs under the "Cloud Credentials" menu located under the System tab.

After configuring your backups, you need to know that there are costs involved. To do transactions (upload your files), your system will be using certain API calls. These calls are recorded and charged. This writeup will explain how I found out that these transactions were costing me more money than I accounted for.

Continue Reading

Computer Build EQUIPMENT GPU LINUX PROJECTS

GPU Passthrough on XCP-ng

USES UBUNTU 18.06.6 SERVER

This is a running log of an attempt to create a hashcat server on an XCP-ng server using PCI passthrough to an Ubuntu virtual machine.

NOTE: This is the GPU I’m using: https://www.nvidia.com/content/grid/pdf/grid_k1_bd-06633-001_v02.pdf

INSTALL ON XCP-NG AS A NEW SERVER

NOTE: Reference Download: https://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.6/

After downloading the ISO, I simply created a VM with 12 cores and 48 GB RAM

Then, I installed hashcat

sudo apt install hashcat

Continue Reading

Scroll to top