I connected an AI-driven recon tool to a self-hosted LLM running on my own GPU, drove it from a Kali attack VM, and pointed it at a ClassicPress target on a segment I control. Cross-host inference, a VRAM wall, a clean run against the wrong target, and the lesson I keep relearning: a local model is a lead generator, not an oracle.
Setting up Game of Active Directory (GOAD-Light) on Windows 11 with VMware Workstation and Vagrant — and the real story behind it: troubleshooting the VMware utility, the launcher’s provider bug, a missing plugin, host-only networking, and provisioning failures that stood between me and a working AD lab.
Step-by-step notes from a homelab penetration test: discovery, enumeration, Kerberos user discovery, brute force, and admin shell with Evil-WinRM. Includes commands used and outputs captured during the exercise.
Centralised logging and detection engineering in my Windows homelab using Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarders.
Overview of my Active Directory homelab: domain setup, users, security exercises, and next steps for monitoring and detection.