pfsense/Proton VPN & Direct Access For Netflix

Hi All, It has been a while since you last heard from us. But we're back at it this time with a guide to create a Netflix alias that can be applied to any source you would like to have a direct connection to your WAN. Of course we all know Netflix blocks VPN connections, …

Update Your Home Assistant Instance Running In a Docker Container

We've grown to love Home Assistant as we've used it and we've found the easiest way to get started would be running it in docker. Since updating the image is actually a problem we encountered after first installing Home Assistant in a Docker container, we wanted to make it a bit easier for our readers …

Getting Started With Damn Vulnerable Web Application on Docker

With Ubuntu Server 18.10 you can actually install Docker as part of the installation process. We will walk you through the install and we will install our first image. For this tutorial we chose DVWA (Damn Vulnerable Web Application) as our docker image. Let's get started. After downloading and booting up the Ubuntu Server 18.10 …

Virtualizing pfSense with VMware vSphere / ESXi 5.5

We built our personal lab in ESXi 5.5, and as foundation the first device we installed after configuring ESXi was a pfsense virtualized firewall. This article does not cover how to install vSphere or how to configure pfSense to do any of the many amazing things it can. A basic, working, pfSense virtual machine will …

Enabling HTTPS for pfsense with a Self Signed Certificate

Today, we are going to show you how to add a SSL to your pfsense installation to encrypt communications while using web configuration. Step 1: Create a backup and backdoor in case something goes wrong we can recover. Log into pfsense. Navigate to Diagnostics > Backup & Restore. Skip Packages = Unchecked Skip RRD = …