Any OS can support PXE/EFI boot possibilities to other systems booting. This post will focus on creating a X86/EFI boot environment using Debian for booting various other systems. The post will primarily focus on booting other Linux environments, there will…
Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. It is designed for low-power embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but can be installed on almost…
Prometheus and Grafana support various integrations including Pihole, following guide will provide instructions on how to integrate these products for interactive statistics and reporting.
rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of important files with known good ones in online databases, searching for default directories (of rootkits), wrong…
nftables replaces the popular {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables. This software provides a new in-kernel packet classification framework that is based on a network-specific Virtual Machine (VM) and a new nft userspace command line tool. nftables reuses the existing Netfilter subsystems such as the…
Wazuh is a free, open source and enterprise-ready security monitoring solution for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response and compliance.
This exporter is the recommended way to expose SNMP data in a format which Prometheus can ingest.
Direct Routing: referred to as DR, adopts a semi open network structure, similar to the structure of TUN mode (IP tunnel), but the nodes are not scattered in different places, but located in the same physical network with the scheduler.…
Netdata is an open source tool designed to collect real-time metrics, such as CPU usage, disk activity, bandwidth usage, website visits, etc., and then display them in live, easy-to-interpret charts. This post will cover how to create a Netdata “parent’…
Some us of don’t want to run PiHole, but do wish to run an AdBlock system either in DNS or integrated with our proxy server. provides a solution to both. This entry will describe how to integrate an Adblock…