General Admin Tasks Archives - Security Tutorials

MFA in Office 365 – Notes from the Trenches.

1st April 2022 hemp General Admin Tasks, Networking

In this tutorial, I wanted to try something a bit different. Instead of just doing a simple how-to guide on[…]

Creating an Active Directory Home Lab

23rd July 2021 hemp Expliots & Pentesting, General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics, Networking

At some point in your IT career, you are going to need to build yourself an Active Directory home lab.[…]

First Three Steps to Secure a Linux Server

2nd April 2021 hemp General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics, Networking

This tutorial covers the first three steps to secure any Linux server. Be it a VPS, Linux Virtual Machine, or[…]

Illustrated Tutorial for Installing Microsoft LAPS

20th June 2020 hemp General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics, Networking

In this Tutorial, I cover the Installation and deployment of Microsoft LAPS on a Windows Domain. Giving you an Illustrated[…]

Banner Based Vulnerabilities For Microsoft Exchange smtpd

3rd December 2019 hemp Expliots & Pentesting, General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics

This Banner based Vulnerability is a common Exchange Server misconfiguration I see on PCI Compliance scans all the time. Try[…]

HTTP Header Internal IP Disclosure

24th November 2019 hemp Expliots & Pentesting, General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics

In a recent PCI DSS Compliance Report, I had an HTTP Header Internal IP Disclosure Vulnerability; which, I have dealt[…]

Password Audit: Extracting hashes from Ntds.dit

12th November 2019 hemp General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics

In this tutorial, I will show you how to do a password audit of a Windows Domain Controller by extracting[…]

Top 10 Security YouTube Channels

21st October 2019 hemp Expliots & Pentesting, General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics, Hacking Wireless Networks

My, Top 10 list of security YouTube Channels is not based on subscribers, or the amount of content they produce[…]

Creating a Simple HTTP Server with one line of Python

30th March 2018 hemp General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics, Networking

Python can run a simple HTTP server, using a built-in module called SimpleHTTPServer this provides standard GET and HEAD request[…]

Installing Linux Mint In VirtualBox

9th October 2016 hemp General Admin Tasks, Hacking Basics

Linux Mint is a Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plugins, media codecs,[…]