This is inspired by several others who have previously completed this task. This is a compilation of what I learned from various sources in case it needs to be reproduced in the future. NOTE: Most images are taken from other sites and I claim no copyright. I purchased the ESP32Cam in a 2 pack from […]
Log into the Raspberry Pi Open the web browser and go to https://code.visualstudio.com Click Other platforms Under the Linux section (penguin icon), to the right of .deb, select ARM NOTE: The other .deb versions are for 64-bit operating systems. The default Raspberry Pi image is 32-bit When the download completes, click on the downloaded file […]
Recently I was alerted by GitHub that I should stop using a username/password when using the GIT command line utility. Instead of a password, I should be using a Personal Access Token that is more flexible and easier to secure. This is a brief walk-through of how to setup and use these tokens. NOTE: In […]
I have recently had the opportunity to begin using Azure Labs (https://labs.azure.com) for my classes. This lab environment helps to replace a previously self-made and self-maintained VMware environment. By building a lab with a virtualization layer (such as Hyper-V), this lab environment helps build flexibility and repeatability to my teaching. While primarily designed for working […]
Install SNAP Microsoft released updates to Visual Studio Code as a SNAP package. Snap is a package management utility similar to apt, yum, or dnf, that is used to install software and any required dependencies. To install VS Code, we must first install snap. Install snap Configure snap for classic mode (required for VS Code) […]
DVWA ( http://www.dvwa.co.uk/ ) is a very useful tool for learning about web-based security. This is not just useful for hackers, but also for security engineers to learn the tools and processes used by hackers to attack production systems. This post hopefully covers everything necessary to setup DVWA in a virtual machine. Configuration DVWA: Version […]
One of the Ansible modules I was excited to learn about was the user module. With this module we can quickly and easily create and manage users on multiple systems. This is especially helpful for Linux devices that may not be joined to a domain and therefore require local users and passwords to be created […]
I use a Dell keyboard, model Y-U0003-DEL5 that has a string of hotkeys on the top of it. These keys for the most part are useless to me because they are primarily for web browsing (back, forward, stop, restart) and other simple tasks such as opening the email client. I wanted to use these keys […]
Install LAMP Stack To begin installation of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP) we update the apt catalog. Then we select the packages to install. NOTE: We are also including the git package now so we can use it later. Once the packages are installed, we start them and configure them to auto-start at […]
IF/THEN statements CASE statements WHILE statements