Homelab Small Projects

As the title mentions, this might feel more of a blog post rather than a write up. I have not gotten around to updating in a while since I’ve been extremely busy. Firstly, my job search is over as I’ve accepted a position as an Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, under their Microsoft Cyber Defense Team, working under their Azure infrastructure! Super excited beyond belief.

I will probably be making each of these projects their own pages after I finish taking time off, but for now this will just be a small update.

Zeek - Network Analysis

Zeek is a network analysis tool that can be used to quickly organize network traffic. This came from a conversation I had with my mentor who suggested I look into this, so I will be updating my learning potentially in another post. Essentially I’ve been exposed to it and can see the importance of it in an enterprise environment.

Golang CLI

I am currently writing a CLI in Golang that will emulate the functionality of a Linux terminal. It only supports “cd” and “ls” commands as of now, however I will keep working on it. It is very early in its stages and continuously keep moving forward. Source code can be found here.

Homelab

My homelab has been designed out, however now I have to save some money to be able to afford everything. Obviously since I am awaiting to start my new job, I am out of money right now to afford for it. However, I did sketch up a network architecture of it, just for fun.

Although I can’t get to juicy parts of messing around with servers, I did end up working on my Pi-Hole at home. However, it is currently on standby, since for some reason I am continuing to have issues with it. At first, I had reason to believe it was rate limiting queries, however now I believe it oddly may be an inconsitent power source (the current rig is very cheap, a multi-year old power extension cord so that the Rpi can be close enough with the very small length Cat6 cables I have). It tends to completely be unable to resolve any queries, typically for about 2 minutes. The web interface dashboard does not show any errors when I load it so I will have to keep looking into it. I ran a script that tested with about 10,000 queries back to back (after fixing rate limiting) and returned with 0 errors.

Nextcloud

I am currently running an instance of Nextcloud on an instance of mine through Vultr. It is very cost effective and I will continue to use it as a testing environment so that when I get my homelab up and running I can use it permanently with my own hardware.

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix

Finally, I am ongoing learning the ATT&CK Matrix, although it is still in beginner stages.