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Creating an Active Directory Home Lab

Posted on 23rd July 202123rd July 2021

At some point in your IT career, you are going to need to build yourself an Active Directory home lab. This tutorial covers segmenting your lab from the rest of your home network, Installing Windows Server 2019, Installing Active Directory, and then joining a Windows 10 workstation to a domain. Other than the physical hardware […]

First Three Steps to Secure a Linux Server

Posted on 2nd April 20212nd April 2021

Illustrated Tutorial for Installing Microsoft LAPS

Posted on 20th June 202020th June 2020

Banner Based Vulnerabilities For Microsoft Exchange smtpd

Posted on 3rd December 201927th February 2020

HTTP Header Internal IP Disclosure

Posted on 24th November 201925th November 2019

Password Audit: Extracting hashes from Ntds.dit

Posted on 12th November 201913th November 2019

In this tutorial, I will show you how to do a password audit of a Windows Domain Controller by extracting the NTLM password hashes from the Ntds.dit file; In order to crack the hashes with Hashcat and see their clear text value The Ntds.dit is a database that stores Active Directory data, which includes all […]

Category: General Admin Tasks

Creating an Active Directory Home Lab

First Three Steps to Secure a Linux Server

Illustrated Tutorial for Installing Microsoft LAPS

Banner Based Vulnerabilities For Microsoft Exchange smtpd

HTTP Header Internal IP Disclosure

Password Audit: Extracting hashes from Ntds.dit

Top 10 Security YouTube Channels

Creating a Simple HTTP Server with one line of Python

Installing Linux Mint In VirtualBox

Find Cached WiFi Passwords in Windows