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5 Years of InfoSec Focused Homelabbing
About the Project Five years ago, on September 22 2019, I published my first blog post titled “New Homelab”. This began a journey in documenting side-projects done on nights and weekends to build skills in Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis, and other InfoSec disciplines. While originally created to build a resume of projects for future employers, it evolved into a platform that afforded me opportunities to teach workshops at leading security conferences, land a new job, compete in a international malware analysis competition, contribute to large offensive security projects, and even have my own content referenced in other researcher’s offensive security blogs and workshops.
This blog post is an outline of my approach in developing side projects, specifically in the InfoSec space that I have greatly benefited from in hopes of inspiring you, dear reader to do the same. I’ve blogged about reverse engineering challenges where I was stuck during the competition, but afterwards a fellow competitor shared a bit of insight that unlocked the “ah ha!” moment. While each CVE blurb varies in quality and content, for Open Source projects, you have the ability to go and grab the patch, and perform root cause analysis on the underlying vulnerability.
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