Author: Trond Endrestøl
Greenbone Vulnerability Management and Mosquitto on FreeBSD
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.
Read More → Greenbone Vulnerability Management and Mosquitto on FreeBSDET INFO Go-http-client User-Agent Observed Inbound
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.”
Read More → ET INFO Go-http-client User-Agent Observed InboundKibana appeared dead after upgrading Security Onion from 2.4.120 to 2.4.130
Kibana appeared dead after upgrading Security Onion from 2.4.120 to 2.4.130. Running sudo so-kibana-restart on the manager solved this issue.
Read More → Kibana appeared dead after upgrading Security Onion from 2.4.120 to 2.4.130Synth 3.09 and 88 hyperthreads
At ${WORK} we have a so-called “monster server” as our resident FreeBSD builder. Unpatched Synth 3.09 handles up to 64 hyperthreads, i.e. 64 scanners and 128 builders. Our builder has 88 hyperthreads, necessitating an expansion to 88 scanners and 176 builders.
Read More → Synth 3.09 and 88 hyperthreadsInstalling Windows 11 24H2 x64 2025-01B
After surfing for a while I came across source 1 and source 2. This approach worked for me.
Read More → Installing Windows 11 24H2 x64 2025-01BDoes Git have a race condition with itself?
Git is at 2.47.1 and this happened as part of a routinegit -C /usr/src pull -j `nproc` –no-edit –no-ff -p andgit -C /usr/src rebase stable/14 stable/14+local:
Read More → Does Git have a race condition with itself?Fortinet FortiGate and Chromium-based browsers
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:
Read More → Fortinet FortiGate and Chromium-based browsersmosh unusable with IPv6 in Cygwin
mosh’s IPv6 support has been broken in Cygwin for a while.
Read More → mosh unusable with IPv6 in CygwinSecurity Onion running out of space in the /nsm filesystems?
If you have insufficient space for Security Onion’s /nsm filesystems, then consider adjusting these parameters in the SOC (Administration > Configuration):
Read More → Security Onion running out of space in the /nsm filesystems?Downloading and converting YouTube videos using youtube-dl (yt-dlp)
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.
Read More → Downloading and converting YouTube videos using youtube-dl (yt-dlp)