Just Hacking Training Launches Free Home Lab Beginner Course and Announces Hacker Summer Camp Participation

The video is a Just Hacking Training live stream hosted by John Hammond and featuring Jorum, focusing on the launch of a free Home Lab Beginner Buildout course. The stream announces Just Hacking Training’s presence at Hacker Summer Camp (Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas, July 31–August 2024), where they will sponsor villages including IoT Village, Red Team Village, and ScamBait Village, offering free mini-workshops on emulation and encryption. The course teaches foundational home lab setup using Proxmox (a type-1 hypervisor), covering installation, networking, virtual machines (VMs), Linux containers (LXCs), backups, and core applications like Gitea (self-hosted Git), Vaultwarden (password manager), and Uptime Kuma (service monitoring). Jorum demonstrates repurposing old hardware (e.g., mini PCs, desktops) with minimal specs (16GB RAM, 128GB storage) and emphasizes automation via Proxmox VE Community Scripts for deploying apps like Docker, Jellyfin, and AI tools. The course includes hands-on labs, quizzes, and a focus on security practices such as encrypted cloud backups and remote access via Tailscale (overlay VPN). Additional free community projects like Crosswind Systems (vulnerable web app) and OnlyLands.ai (CTF challenges with monthly training giveaways) are highlighted. The stream concludes with a demo of Jorum’s personal home lab, showcasing local AI models (e.g., Quen 3.5) and productivity tools like Nextcloud and Code Server.