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Bitstream walkthrough - HackSmarter

jack@jstuart.io (Jack Stuart) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:20:14 +0800

Introduction

Bitstream is a Cyber Range from Hack Smarter and is the first time I’ve attempted something like this so my path is a bit different from all of the other walkthroughs as my background is more on the blue side and I’m a lot more comfortable with Windows than Linux. Overall this took me about 9 hours to get through and I had to use a few hints along the way.

About Me

jack@jstuart.io (Jack Stuart) — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’m an experienced Microsoft Security Consultant based out of Perth, Western Australia, I focus mainly on Microsoft (Onprem/Cloud) M365 Security - based around the Essential 8 and general Microsoft best practices. I’m starting to looking more into the red team side of things which is why you’ll see walkthroughs for HackSmarter and HackTheBox come up.

I like building the right things, the right way, the first time

Creating a professional blog with Hugo, Github and Cloudflare Pages

jack@jstuart.io (Jack Stuart) — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0800

Introduction

This blog has been created completly free utilizing Hugo (An open-source static site generator), the Hugo-Paper Theme, GitHub (As the code repository/builder) and Cloudflare Pages as the host. The reason I went with Cloudflare Pages vs GitHub Pages is simple, You need to be on a paid GitHub plan to use a private repository, if I want to leave things in draft/I’m just playing around with formatting etc. I don’t want the world to see all of this. Yes I could put it in another branch etc but it’s still not what I personally wanted. This blog will show you how to create an exact replica of this site for free!