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12. 09. 2023 Davide Gallo Contribution, DevOps, NetEye

Automating Icinga 2 Deployment on Linux Systems

Currently, deploying an Icinga 2 Agent on a Linux system can be intricate, given the substantial variations in the process across different releases or OS families. For instance: Fortunately, there’s no need to develop and maintain a custom script to manage these diverse scenarios. We can leverage the readily available Ansible Plugins for this purpose….

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05. 09. 2023 Rocco Pezzani Development, NetEye

Upgrading to the New nep-setup on NetEye 4.31

After a first semester full of great opportunities (many colleagues like to say so), the wheels have started turning again for NetEye Extension Packs. Now, a big evolution is beginning: in the near future, NEP will encompass the entire NetEye infrastructure, meaning it will also configure and manage NetEye Satellites. To do so, the current…

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05. 09. 2023 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.31

We fixed a bug in El Proxy that caused the verification result sent to the Monitoring to be filled with logs and difficult to read. Now a simplified report with only important information is sent by El Proxy to the Monitoring. Updated packages For NetEye 4.31 we updated the following packages: To correctly apply the…

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04. 09. 2023 Davide Sbetti Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.30

We fixed a bug in the Alyvix IcingaWeb2 module for which a missing requirement could led to an error if a certain package was not installed. Updated packages For NetEye 4.30 we updated the following packages:

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04. 09. 2023 Davide Sbetti Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.31

We fixed a bug in the Alyvix IcingaWeb2 module for which a missing requirement could led to an error if a certain package was not installed. Updated packages For NetEye 4.31 we updated the following packages:

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30. 08. 2023 Davide Sbetti Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.31

We fixed the following 4 bugs related to upgrade procedure to ELK 8. Firstly, we fixed an issue with a script used to set the correct number of replicas for single-node installations, which was throwing an error in case a certain system index, already having the correct setting, was being affected by the procedure. Moreover,…

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29. 08. 2023 Enrico Alberti Log Management, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Configuring the New Fleet Server on Elastic 8

The Fleet Management feature was automatically enabled with NetEye release 4.30, and with the current 4.31 version all the Elastic Stack packages will be upgraded to major version 8. These two milestones will permit us to centrally manage log ingestion using the new Elastic Agents (the evolutions of Beats Agents) and forget all the custom…

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28. 08. 2023 Mirko Ioris Blue Team, SEC4U

Hacker Group Activities and Cyber Security Concerns | First Semester 2023

A Security Operation Center (SOC) is a service where the customer is an active participant. Establishing a good relationship with the customer is an important requirement for handling security incidents more efficiently. Our SOC analysts produce and deliver several reports, most of them on a monthly basis. They are usually presented to clients during a…

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25. 08. 2023 Lorenzo Candeago DevOps

Debug and Workarounds for a Stuck Update on OpenShift 4.13.6

Today we wanted to update our OpenShift cluster, and after a while we came up against the following error: Not good… Let’s start by checking the clusterversion to investigate if we can find any errors: By analyzing the logs further we found the following error: it seems like the openshift-etcd-operator is not able to deploy…

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25. 08. 2023 Davide Sbetti Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.30

We fixed a bug in a check pre-upgrade related to the upgrade to Elastic Stack 8 which did not identify correctly the cases in which a single critical system index needs migration. Updated packages For NetEye 4.30 we updated the following packages:

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23. 08. 2023 Alessandro Mizzaro Development, Events, SEC4U

DEFCON 31: My Trip to Vegas w/ mhackeroni

Greetings, cyber enthusiasts! This year we hacked a satellite and won $50K!! Okay, now that I’ve got your attention, that last sentence isn’t fake, but let’s go back to a few days ago… I’m Alessandro — Alemmi on the internet — and while I always enjoy playing CTFs with my workmates here at Würth Phoenix,…

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23. 08. 2023 Charles Callaway Documentation

Tutorial Video Editing Technical Tips, Part 1: Making an Inset Porthole Video

Rather than the type of advice in my series on how to create a tutorial video, today let’s talk about the specifics on how to create a “porthole video”, which is an inset video overlay used during a screencast that doesn’t have the standard square shape (if it were square, we wouldn’t need any special…

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22. 08. 2023 Davide Sbetti Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.31

We fixed the following 4 bugs related to El Proxy. The first bug was that there was large RAM consumption during the verification in case the verified blockchain contained a large number of corruptions. With the fix, the list of found corruptions, which caused the problem, is now exported in a .ndjson.gz file, for easier…

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22. 08. 2023 Fabrizio Dovesi Atlassian, Development, Service Management

Scaled Planning in Jira: Another Brick in the Wall

The brand new “Top-level planning” template represents the puzzle pieces that guide us in effectively managing scaled planning in Jira Introduction: Why is “Scaling” fundamental? Do you know that feeling when you find the one puzzle piece that allows you to connect two larger sets of pieces you’ve already assembled? Well, that’s similar to what…

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21. 08. 2023 Davide Sbetti Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.30

We fixed a bug in a check pre-upgrade related to the upgrade to Elastic Stack 8 for which, in case some critical system indices need to be migrated, the upgrade was prevented. Updated packages For NetEye 4.30 we updated the following packages:

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