Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) are an essential part of modern network security. In today’s digital world, cyber threats are constantly evolving, making it increasingly important for organizations to protect their networks from attacks. An IPS is designed to provide an additional layer of security by detecting and preventing malicious activity before it can cause harm to your network. In this blog post, we will explore what an IPS is, why every network needs one, and the benefits of implementing an IPS in your network. ...

PfSense is a popular open-source firewall solution that is widely used by small and large businesses alike. It offers a variety of features that help to secure your network, including firewall rules, VPN support, and intrusion detection. However, with so many options and configurations, it can be difficult to know how to get the most out of PfSense and ensure maximum security for your network. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best practices and tips for maximizing security with PfSense. ...

GNU/Linux server are great, cost-effective way for businesses to store and share data. GNU/Linux is open-sources, so it provides plenty of resources and community cooperation . However, that also brings security concerns. If you’re going to run a GNU/Linux server, you NEED to know how to secure it properly. 1. Updates the server The first thing you used do is update the OS to the latest version. Most VPS or cloud-based server update when you deploy them but still update. Run this commands based on the OS you are running. If you don’t know then run: ’ cat /etc/issue `. This will tell you. ...

What are subdomains To explain what a subdomain is you need to explain what a domain is. A domain name is the name of your website. So like rebootcyber.xyz or google.com is a domain. This allows users to just type in a name instead of a ip address. This makes it so much easy to remeber a website. Back to what a subdomain is. All a subdomain is a prefox added to a domain name to separte a section of a website. Site owners primarily use subdomain to manage extensive section that require their own content. Subdomain function as a separte website from its domain. This distinction enables developers to develop a section of a website without muddling a site’s overall intent. ...

What is a IP Address? An IP address is Internet Protocol Address. Basically it is the address to a computer. There are two types IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 is used everywhere but is every old. IPv6 is not used every much but is newer. IPv4 An IPv4 address looks like 127.0.0.1. It is kinda of a complete technology to understand. So there is public and private address. Do to some compact math there are only 4 billion IPv4 address in the world but there are 16 billion internet facing devices in the world. I may suck at math but 16 is bigger than 4. ...

What is DNS? DNS is Domain Name Server, when you go to google.com, computers don’t know what google.com is but it does know what an IP address is. So you have a file on you computer that says google.com equals 127.0.0.1. If you want to see the IP of google.com ping google.com on any system. How does DNS work? So when you go to a site like rebootcyber.xyz. First your pc check its DNS cache file then go to a local name server like your router or pi-hole. Then to a .com name server. Final to rebootcyber.xyz nameserver. If there are subdomains you want to go to then it will be the job of rebootcyber.xyz nameserver. ...

uptime-kuma UPTIME-KUMA What is Uptime-Kuma? Uptime-Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool. I will say at first I thought this was dumb. Why would I need a uptime monitor system? When I run it just to give it a chance I fell in love with it because of one feature. The feature notification. You can send notification to email, discord, telegram, and etc. What are the ways to install it. You can install using docker, install script, or build it. I use docker because I love docker. I will do an article on it later. ...

SATA CABLE HACK What is a SATA cable SATA(Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) cable is an IDE standard first released in 2001 for connecting devices like optical drives and hard drives to the motherboard How does the hack work The SATA cable interfaces can emit radio signal during certain read and write operation. This will main be used in air-gap system because this systems do not have wireless connection.An attacker can use malware to hijack legitimate software process to preform vert specific read/wire functions that reflect the contents of the data that the attacker wants. You will need to first get access to this machines. You can use a bad USB or make some social engineering. This attack can only receive data about 4ft away. If they go further than that then they will get error bits and this attack only transfer at 1 bit/sec. ...

What is OpenDNS? OpenDNS is a DNS sinkhole. This allows you to stop people from going to certain sites that you don’t want them to go to. There is two version of OpenDNS called Umbrella this is the enterprise version and cost money. We will be using the consumer version called OpenDNS home. First you need to set up an account. You will need an email address, password, and public IP. Ones you login in. You are ready to start ...

PiHole 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. This allows you to block unwanted stuff and websites on your private network.DNS Sinkhole is a mechanism aimed at protecting users by intercepting DNS request attempting to connect to known malicious or unwanted domains and returning a false, or rather controlled IP address. The controlled IP address points to a sinkhole server defined by the DNS sinkhole administrator. ...