Lab Notes

Lab Notes — September 23, 2025

Sysadmin Work

• Continued managing licensing workflow and Exchange/Outlook distinctions.
• Assisted with saved Wi-Fi password retrieval on Chrome OS.

Security+ Studies

• Compared DNS amplification vs Smurf attacks.
• Reviewed shimming, refactoring, MAC spoofing as application/service attacks.
• Defined IoC (Indicator of Compromise) and NTP protocol basics.
• Studied pass-the-hash attacks.

Security Research

• Looked into travel router capabilities (tunneling, portable AP, segmentation).
• Reflected on post-quantum internet access and timelines for consumer quantum hardware.