Homelab build Components
Desktop Hardware inventory Component Item Specs / Notes Case NZXT H7 Flow 2024 – Mid-Tower ATX Airflow Case Airflow-focused, 3 x 120mm pre-installed fans, supports bottom-mounted GPU fans, good cable management Power Supply Corsair RM850x – 850W Fully Modular PSU ATX 3.1 compliant, PCIe 5.1 support, Cybenetics Gold, 12V-2×6 cable ready CPU AMD Ryzen 7…
How to Backup Proxmox VM’s using Rclone
Setting Up Proxmox Backups with Rclone and Backblaze B2 Backing up your Proxmox VMs and containers is critical for maintaining a secure and reliable environment. This guide walks you through setting up backups with Rclone and Backblaze B2 cloud storage. Step 1: Locate Proxmox Storage Navigate to the storage directory for your backups and identify…
Creating a Honeypot server for threat intel IOC matching
Honeypot using IONOS VPS and Cowrie I want to create a safe honeypot to try to capture malicious IPs and perform research on them. To do so, I am going to run a cheap VPS in the cloud and remotely pull logs from it. Requirements Optional Outcomes Step #1: Login to public facing VPS using…
How I built my own Autonomous SOC
This project has the goal of creating a production security stack, with the capability to gain visibility into all alerts without the alert fatigue experienced by an individual homelabber. This article assumes you have ELK installed, if you have not done that, navigate to my other blog on the subject at: ELK Stack Install Project…
Greenbone Vulnerability Scanning on Proxmox
Greenbone on Proxmox I want to run a vulnerability scanner from my Proxmox instance. Greenbone provides a solution, but its native format is meant for VirtualBox or VMware. In this blog, we are going to upload the OVA image to Proxmox and adjust it to be compatible with our system. Requirements: Software Outcomes Step #1:…
How to install a open-source firewall on Raspberry Pi 4
IPFire On Raspberry Pi The goal of this project is to get an open source firewall distribution to boot in a raspberry pi so I can get a inline firewall for my network. I want to get an idea of who is trying to break in from the outside, increase my security from external attackers…