#monitoring

anonymiss@despora.de

How Unparalleled #RDP #Monitoring Reveal Attackers’ Tradecraft

Source: https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2023/08/09/how-unparalleled-rdp-monitoring-reveal-attackers-tradecraft/

We ran them for three years and accumulated over 190 million events, including 100 hours of video footage, 470 files collected from threat actors, and more than 20,000 RDP captures. 

The data collected allowed the study of attackers’ behavior, which was used to classify attackers into different groups.

#hack #hacker #cybercrime #internet #Windows #server #security #honeypot #attack #news

anonymiss@despora.de

#Ancient #warning to #society but it has only made things worse...

Watch: https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1678489786600120.webm

Be careful there is high danger because the following URI goes to #YouTube. Click here only if you are aware of the #danger and effects and have taken appropriate countermeasures for your own protection. Otherwise you will play directly into the hands of the exploitation system. I strongly advise against using YouTube without appropriate protection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTBkj8gFfI

#privacy #surveillance #tracking #internet #economy #capitalism #advertisement #politics #consume #system #soul #finance #money #society #Religion #problem #manipulation #propaganda #fake #life #freedom #democracy #monitoring #America #entertainment #song #music #smartphone #corporation #bigdata

escheche@diasp.org
anonymiss@despora.de

Why are #digital opportunities leading to the Orwellian #surveillance state?

It is much cheaper to query a surveillance #database and #arrest all the suspicious #people in it than good old time-consuming #police #investigations. Today's #technology enables almost seamless #monitoring at neuralgic points. In the past, this could only be dreamed of, and the staff alone was not enough to read every letter. Today, an #AI can take over this task and immediately calculate the potential #danger. Of course, bad mistakes happen, but as long as on average more dangerous people are recognized and arrested at an early stage, it is not important for the state. After all, everyone can make use of the possibilities offered by the rule of #law and, in case of doubt, will be released again. Unless, of course, he commits suicide like #AaronSchwartz. Particularly resistant dissidents are tortured to death like #Assange or chased into exile like #Snowden. #Security comes at a price, and it's the security that counts, especially in this uncertain, latent crisis situation. Welcome to the year 1984!


#society #democracy #justice #privacy #humanrights #politics #government #orwell #problem #future #internet #policestate #jail #prison #terror

danie10@squeet.me

Monitorix – A Comprehensive Open Source Linux System and Network Monitoring Tool

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Monitorix is an open-source, free, and most powerful lightweight tool designed to monitor system and network resources in Linux. It regularly collects system and network data and displays the information in graphs using its own web interface (which listens on the port 8080/TCP).

Monitorix allows for monitoring overall system performance and also helps in detecting bottlenecks, failures, unwanted long response times, and other abnormal activities.

It contains generally two programs: a collector, called monitorix, which is a Perl daemon that is started automatically like any other system service, and a CGI script called monitorix.cgi. It is written in Perl language and licensed under the terms of GNU (General Public License) as published by the FSP (Free Software Foundation). It uses RRDtool to generate graphs and display them using the web interface.

Of course, the test is with the eating of the pudding, and how many resources it will chew itself. Glances appears to have fewer features and no nice graphs, yet can chew a good 10% of CPU resources at times. Monitorix certainly also focusses on Linux servers as well with the Apache, Fail2ban, MySQL, etc stats.

See https://www.tecmint.com/monitorix-linux-network-monitoring-tool/

#technology #linux #monitorix #monitoring #opensource
#Blog, ##linux, ##monitoring, ##monitorix, ##opensource, ##technology

opensciencedaily@diasp.org

US Wind Commits to Environmental Research Partnership With UMCES


US Wind Inc. has declared $11 million in funding over 10 years to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) for three research projects aimed at understanding the potential effects of offshore wind development on marine mammals, fish and birds. The research will take place in US Wind’s 80,000-acre federal lease area off the coast of Ocean City, Md.
https://nawindpower.com/us-wind-commits-to-environmental-research-partnership-with-umces
#monitoring, #assessment, #acoustic, #wind, #clean-energy, #offshore, #environmental


opensciencedaily@diasp.org

US Wind Commits to Environmental Research Partnership With UMCES


US Wind Inc. has declared $11 million in funding over 10 years to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) for three research projects aimed at understanding the potential effects of offshore wind development on marine mammals, fish and birds. The research will take place in US Wind’s 80,000-acre federal lease area off the coast of Ocean City, Md.
https://nawindpower.com/us-wind-commits-to-environmental-research-partnership-with-umces
#offshore, #wind, #environmental, #clean-energy, #acoustic, #monitoring, #assessment


danie10@squeet.me

PowerToYou and Cloud Battery (amongst other apps) both display battery levels of your other Apple devices

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I was looking for an app to alert me to low battery levels across various of my iOS devices. Although coconutBattery looked good, it is macOS only, and I only power my Macbook up occasionally. So I looked at a good four iOS app options, and there is no perfect one that does everything perfectly. I also discarded anything that was updated more than a year ago. I installed across my iPhone, iPad and Watch. You can view the battery levels from any device’s app, for all the devices.

PowerToYou covers iPhone, iPad (and iPencil found under Bluetooth devices), Watch, AirPods (added as a Bluetooth device). What I like is that it has a good widget layout, clearly showing the percentages and time last updated for each device. You can set notifications globally for any device falling below, or going above (to prevent full cycle charging), a percentage charged. Adding the AirPods on my iPhone, made them show up on the iPad’s app just fine. The widget expanded to show the AirPods. It also has some choices for Watch complications. The app was last updated Feb 2022, and has an active Discord support community. Download from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/powertoyou/id1558154409.

Cloud Battery covers the same devices as PowerToYou (but says AirPods can no longer be monitored this way, and did not detect them), but it also detected and showed my Apple Pencil battery level. Its widgets fall a bit short though as they are nice but fail to show any percentage level or time last updated. However, a quick press on the widget opens the app, which shows the percentages. Another quick press on an individual device, shows when the charge level was last updated, rename the device, and set a device specific alert fop passing below or above a certain percentage level. Cloud Battery also allows you to customise the colours of widget text and icons, and is also unique in that you can share a device’s charge status with another Cloud Battery app user. App was last updated Jan 2022. Download from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cloud-battery/id1480648069.

“Charged?” is a small app that allows you to check the charge level of your iOS and macOS devices via iCloud. I did briefly use it, and it shows battery percentages with last updated, for iPhone, iPad and macOS. It does lack some of the extra features the apps above have, and was last updated in March 2021.

Battery Status Overview does not work with macOS, but works on iPad, iPhone and Watch. It also has a lot fewer settings and more basic graphics, but does include a charge history log. They only mention alerts for the battery charge level reaching 100%. The app was last updated in Dec 2021, and only has one review rating, though.

Apple’s built-in battery widget is great, but it ONLY shows local devices, so no overview of all your other devices.

So I am a bit torn between PowerToYou and Cloud Battery. I’m leaning more towards PowerToYou as the widget has everything clearly shown. Cloud Battery’s plus is its ability to set a different minimum and maximum battery percentage for each device separately.

I’ll post any updates about this topic at my blog post at https://gadgeteer.co.za/powertoyou-and-cloud-battery-amongst-other-apps-both-display-battery-levels-of-your-other-apple-devices/.
Bild/FotoPowertToYou at top and Cloud Battery bottom Bild/FotoOpening Cloud Battery app shows percentages
#technology #apple #battery #chargelevel #monitoring
#Blog, ##apple, ##battery, ##chargelevel, ##monitoring, ##technology

danie10@squeet.me

Healthchecks.io is an open source online service for monitoring regularly running tasks such as cron jobs, or monitoring sites without public websites

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It uses the Dead man’s switch technique: the monitored system must “check in” with Healthchecks.io at regular, configurable time intervals. When Healthchecks.io detects a missed check-in, it sends out alerts. Similarly, you can use this service too, to monitor a remote location that is not publicly accessible across the Internet because it does it’s check outbound, and not inbound such as say UptimeRobot does. In this way, if the job has not checked in after a predetermined period, you’ll receive a notification.

It is fully open source, so you can either self-host the monitoring service yourself, or their cloud service is free to use for up to 20 job monitors with e-mail alerts or 5 SMS / WhatsApp credits. If you are using the Dead Man’s Switch service (open source clients), this is certainly an alternative to consider.

See https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks

#technology #opensource #healthchecks #alternativeto #deadmansswitch #monitoring
#Blog, ##alternativeto, ##deadmansswitch, ##healthchecks, ##monitoring, ##opensource, ##technology