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Dusting, and other things you haven't been doing. Just some quick little dos and don't for dusting a computer, from my experience. Dos Set aside time to clear out your computer of dust, bugs, and other things regularly. In a normal home or small business, this may be once a month or every other month and that's okay. For high dust environments, clean it more often. Be cautious of spinning fans. Even with a little spray keyboard duster, if you let it spin your fans, it may be strong enough to bend the blades or otherwise put additional wear on the fan physically. If you let it free spin, on occasion you may damage the bearings or the plastic connections to the motors and the fan won't connect properly. This causes the fan to be unusable and usually becomes a matter of replacing the fan. This includes processor fans, case fans, powers supply fans, etc... DO NOT SPIN THEM BECAUSE ITS FUN. I know it is, but refrain. Use between 40-50 psi from air compressors. Most controlle...

 CozyHosting Intro: I went to start another HTB system and figured this would be a good one to write up. I know there are other writeups on this, and from what I've seen, I think I can put together something better to follow. So, lets dig in. Recon: I started with nmap, I have nmap aliased which is basically setting mynmap to "nmap -sS -sV -Pn -p1- --open -sC -oN nmap" which I have setup this way so I can create a folder for the htb challenge, enter the folder, and then nmap from there. saving my file for reference later. This does miss some udp stuff and things like that, so it's not the best scanning, but it's sufficient in most cases to give me an advantage A few other starter things I like to do is start dirb and eyewitness to go grab a picture of the site. Lets not forget to go ahead and get some whatweb detection goodness. So far we've only found login and admin pages, think I'm gonna try to run FFUF to see what else we can find while we investigate ...