https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog Write-ups from my home lab (Active Directory, Wazuh, osTicket) plus Attack Analyst and ASL Learn. en-us Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/jfrog-artifactory-cve-2026-82329 https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/jfrog-artifactory-cve-2026-82329 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT I started treating cybersecurity news the same way I treat a ticket. Read the story, write down what the article actually says, then ask whether it would fire in my lab. This one was CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS 9.8) in JFrog Artifactory. The Hacker News covered it. The useful bits came from JFrog (the... https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/asl-learn-web-app https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/asl-learn-web-app Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT ASL Learn is a web app I built so I (and other hearing learners) can look up American Sign Language videos without digging through a bunch of tabs. Search a word, watch a clip, save it to a study card, practice later. It is a study aid. It is not a class, and it is not a substitute for Deaf... https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/attack-analyst-rss-threat-intel https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/attack-analyst-rss-threat-intel Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT I built Attack Analyst because I was reading cybersecurity news and not keeping any of it. I wanted the same habit I use on a ticket: pull the story, write down what actually happened, then say how you'd defend and what you'd look for in a SIEM. It's a personal study library. It is not a product... https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/hunting-in-wazuh-first-investigations https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/hunting-in-wazuh-first-investigations Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT In June I wrote about getting Wazuh and Sysmon standing. This stretch was different. I stopped adding tools and tried to work an alert the way I think a SOC would. The process I'm using: a high-severity alert opens a ticket, I hunt in the Wazuh Dashboard (not by grepping the server), I write a... https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/Nextcloud_update_8-11-26 https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/Nextcloud_update_8-11-26 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I haven't posted in a while but I have been working on the homelab. Biggest new piece is Nextcloud, running with MariaDB and Redis. I also: Moved database credentials into a file Cleaned up the Docker Compose file Added a health check for MariaDB Set container dependencies so things start in order... https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/HomeLab_update https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/HomeLab_update Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT It's been a little while since the last post. I've been making some bigger changes to the homelab. I moved past basic setup and started building a small SOC-style environment: monitoring, a place for incidents to land, and more Windows and Linux admin in a lab I control. Biggest piece was getting... https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/Troubleshooting_osTicket https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/Troubleshooting_osTicket Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I was putting osTicket on my Raspberry Pi for the help desk / SOC side of the lab. I figured it would be a straightforward install. It was not. I ended up in Apache, Linux networking, and a port conflict. After installing osTicket, Apache, PHP, and MariaDB, I expected the setup page. I kept... https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/why-i-document-my-it-learning https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/why-i-document-my-it-learning Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I took some time away from the Active Directory homelab and had to get my bearings again. The lab is a Windows Server domain controller and a Windows 11 client in VirtualBox. First day back I poked around and tried to create a new user, just to remember how the environment was set up. The password... https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/first-helpdesk-post https://www.jbtechbyte.com/blog/first-helpdesk-post Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I'm a workers' compensation adjuster. I want to get into IT, and after that into cybersecurity. I graduated from Kean University with a B.S. in Information Technology, and in April I passed CompTIA Security+. That covers the classroom side. What I didn't have yet was time on the tools. I applied to...