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Well, it finally happened. I was hacked.

Posted on July 26, 2026

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My homelab consists of about a dozen VMs, plus a couple random devices. Unless I’m traveling, I run updates a couple times a week. This includes my…

Reminiscing …

Posted on June 28, 2026

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig I was thinking back and remembered that I used to write for a cyber blog. This one in fact. I had totally forgotten … In all seriousness,…

Don’t Cross the Streams, Ray!

Posted on July 24, 2025

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig A little over four years ago I purchased a power strip. It had USB-A ports for charging and was flanged for easily securing it to my desk….

Diving Back Into Apache Logs

Posted on May 10, 2025

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig I wrote the majority of this about a year ago and it sat in my drafts folder. I didn’t have the time nor mental energy to fully…

Naughty Serenade

Posted on January 6, 2025

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig One of my passions is old movies. Mostly Hollywood golden era, but all kinds. I post a short blog entry for the pre-1980 films I watch. For…

Adventures in Server-Sitting

Posted on November 12, 2024

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My home server seems to occasionally enter a steady state. The syslog logs, the IDS detects, the vulnerability scanner scans, the web server serves. I stop routinely…

D-Link Router Compromise Attempt

Posted on August 15, 2024

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig@fosstodon.org Security Onion threw up three alerts this week:WGET Command Specifying Output in HTTP HeadersPossible D-Link Router HNAP Protocol Security Bypass AttemptD-Link Devices Home Network Administration Protocol Command…

Diving Back Into Apache Logs

Posted on June 3, 2024

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My home server has been pretty quiet as of late. Sometimes because it’s literally quiet. I will shut it down from time to time because the fans…

The Choices We Make

Posted on May 10, 2024

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig We are not who we used to be. Well, mostly we are, but in a real sense we aren’t. Every minute cells die and are replaced. Neurons…

Security on the Flip Side

Posted on January 15, 2024

by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig Occasionally mentioned in a podcast, I was only tangentially aware of the Security BSides conferences. More notice was taken while attending DEF CON this past summer, which…

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