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February 7, 2021

Announcing restic-PyBM v0.1

By Eric Viseur Computer networks, Home server, Information security  0 Comments
Announcing restic-PyBM v0.1
A Python 3 wrapper to manage restic repositories and monitor them with Nagios-compliant outputs, created by yours truly.
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January 19, 2021

Yubikey & Raspberry Pi based 2-tier CA with step-ca

By Eric Viseur Home server, Information security  0 Comments
An affordable solution to set up a basic root CA with physical security for your sensitive keys.
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December 21, 2020

Some notes on a privacy-minded Pi-Hole deployment

By Eric Viseur Computer networks, Information security  0 Comments
Pi-Hole is an excellent solution to block ads, trackers and malware network-wide at the DNS level. With a few tweaks, it can be a great asset for privacy on the Internet.
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December 4, 2020

unbound DNS-over-TLS forwarding server on Debian Buster

By Eric Viseur Computer networks, Home server, Information security  0 Comments
Setting up unbound is simple. Getting it to work on Debian Buster with DNS-over-TLS is no rocket science either but does require some fine-tuning explained in this article.
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November 23, 2020

recoll: Going paperless without getting moneyless

By Eric Viseur Daily life, Home server  0 Comments
A write-up on how I selected a lightweight tool to finally throw away those big piles of paper and get a decent full text index of all these official documents.
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October 24, 2018

Site-to-site OpenVPN in unprivileged containers on Proxmox VE 5

By Eric Viseur Computer networks, Home server  0 Comments
This article covers the specifics of getting OpenVPN to work on unprivileged containers with Proxmox VE 5.2 and the configuration specifics for a site-to-site link.
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October 23, 2018

CTFd on Ubuntu 18.04

By Eric Viseur Computer networks  0 Comments
CTFd is a nice and easy to use CTF management platform based on Python. This article gives a straight guide for quick deployment on a bare Ubuntu 18.04 VM/Container, in case you cannot use Docker.
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February 22, 2018

Splitting the IPS from the routing function with pfSense

By Eric Viseur Computer networks, Home server, Information security  0 Comments
Following performance issues with my all-in-one IPS/Router setup on my home network, I decided to split it between a pfSense-based IPS and a Linux-based router. This article explains why I made that choice, how I revised my architecture and the resulting implementation.
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October 1, 2017

A subjective list of useful cybersecurity resources

By Eric Viseur Information security  0 Comments
In this (supposedly) frequently updated article, I list websites and publications that I find useful as a referential/background for my cybersecurity activities. Basically, this is a dump of my Feedly subscriptions list, assorted with additional elements (books that I read, links I don't want to lose, and so on).
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August 16, 2017

Icinga 2 with InfluxDB & Grafana on CentOS 7

By Eric Viseur Computer networks, Information security, Monitoring  0 Comments
Icinga started out as a Nagios refactor. It has now become so much more, and is a pretty solid tool to monitor efficiently an heterogeneous system with minimal effort. Along with the InfluxDB time-series and the Grafana visualization tool, it can be used to build a modern and reactive NOC platform starting point.
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On days, I’m a dazzling System Engineer that designs devices and systems like there is no tomorrow.  Or, I’m on holidays, I frantically drink beers and learn about stuff.

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Recent Posts

  • Announcing restic-PyBM v0.1
  • Yubikey & Raspberry Pi based 2-tier CA with step-ca
  • Some notes on a privacy-minded Pi-Hole deployment
  • unbound DNS-over-TLS forwarding server on Debian Buster
  • recoll: Going paperless without getting moneyless

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