At ${WORK}, we’ve been running Greenbone Vulnerability Management for some years. After a recent upgrade, Mosquitto wouldn’t shut up about certificate and keyfile until I told it where to find a server certificate and the associated private key. I simply reused what GVM uses in general.

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Today, I had a go at the ETOPEN Suricata rules in Security Onion 2.4.150. I disabled long ago the rule numbered “2060252” and named “ET INFO Go-http-client User-Agent Observed Inbound.” This one popped up when I hunted for the reason the Suricata rules showed “Rule mismatch.”

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After upgrading Brave to version 1.73.89 (Chromium 131.0.6778.69) and Google Chrome to version 131.0.6778.70, the web GUI of our Fortinet FortiGate is inaccessible. Both browsers display the following error when attempting to access the GUI:

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Up until quite recently, I’ve been using YTD Video Downloader in Windows for downloading YouTube videos, but even the paid version has issues. This weekend I rediscovered the steps I took using youtube-dl (yt-dlp) during last Xmas, and made a shell script to automate everything.

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