I started this blog a decade ago. A college project continued into a professional portfolio and passion project. Everything has changed from the website name and design to the writing style and content. One thing that remained the same was the struggle to consistently post relevant content. The problem A lot has changed in the last 10 years, while I am still interested in hacking, I find myself split among other priorities.

When you start seeing Spring Cleaning posts on socials, why not take a day to start “cleaning” with your devices at home? I took the day to review my home lab server and validate it could still run the projects I wanted it to. Below is all the steps I went through while knocking off the cobwebs.. the server has not been online since October of 2024. The problem Outdated server, lab was running Ubuntu 20.

Full disclosure: This is my notes from watching Plantplants, a student mentor at OffSec, on a Twitch live stream. The video will be reposted to OffSec’s youtube soon. Setup After launching the targe machine on the OffSec portal, set a local zsh environment variable to the target IP export IP=10.0.0.2 The variable can then be used in future commands. Recon Plantplants mentioned he liked to do manual enumeration while the all port scan ran in the background.