Questions tagged [monitoring]
Monitoring is the act of looking on the processes or systems for performance, supervision and surveillance.
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How do you protect against your IT domain admins accessing your data?
I work at a small company and we use an external company to take care of all our IT needs (a "managed IT service provider"). This includes managing our windows domain, our network, and everything else....
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Capturing multicast packets in WLAN
(I had to move this from Network Engineering stack exchange where I origianlly asked this question)
If a device in monitoring mode snoops on the traffic in a WLAN, can it CAPTURE and READ multicast ...
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How can TLS/HTTPS remain secure if the entire transmission is monitored? [duplicate]
Okay, so I'm pretty sure this question comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of how HTTPS works, but here goes:
Say that someone has hooked into the "internet line" coming from your home so that ...
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Securing a Personal Hotspot
I'm buying a brand new phone, added to it: a new line and SIM card, along with a brand new laptop, to use my phone's network as a hotspot. I will not be using these devices for anything but personal ...
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If a vulnerability has no relevant attack vectors, is monitoring still legitimate for a company?
Today while reviewing vulnerability scan results with a colleague, we had a debate about what vulnerabilities can be considered "true or legitimate" and hence worthwhile to spend resources in ...
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How to locally monitor outgoing internet traffic?
I have a cable internet connection that goes to a ASA firewall and then into my local network where i have several machines including many VM's on a ESXI server.
I am looking for a way to monitor ...
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What process inside Windows recognizes exploits?
When I try to save a file containing code exploiting a well-known vulnerability (link redirects to an example git-hub code), windows alerts, that a virus was found and a few seconds later, the file is ...
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OWASP: Insufficient Logging & Monitoring - open source tools
Being new to the security and logging and after reading a lot about the terms used, I am pretty sure I neither need an IDS/IPS nor a WAF.
I am mostly interested in automating the "monitoring" of my ...
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What can schools see on school issued Mac? [closed]
My school gave everyone Macs that were sealed in the box and everything. From what I’ve seen so far, the root certificate hasn’t been tampered with. Can they see my https web history? Can laptops have ...
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Java http proxy burp
I have a web application which downloads and executes a jnlp file to launch an applet. Using javaws I set a proxy under the network settings at 127.0.0.1 port 8080. Is this enough to monitor through ...
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Analyze / Sniff all packets from all devices connected to a router
First of all, before explaining what I'm trying to do, let me clarify that my intentions are not steal any information, as it's only for study purposes, not even for my own entertainment.
I'm trying ...
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Configure burp to intercept JNLP
I am monitoring a site where there is an applet. To use it, there is the download and the execution of a jnlp file. I would like to monitor the requests made from and to that file through Burp.
I read ...
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Can a laptop be monitored when booted from external drive?
If a laptop is monitored (say from employer) and I boot it from an external USB hard drive or a LIVE-CD/USB-Stick, can it then still be monitored somehow?
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How can I capture all data from a specific device on my network?
I have an iPhone that is connected to my Wi-Fi at home. I want to capture ALL traffic from that iPhone (because it's my network) and record it and view it. I don't have physical access to the device.
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Monitoring and Securing IoT devices [closed]
I have a mix of IoT devices at home. Alexas, WiFi PLugs, Smartthings (with related Z-Wave/Zigbee devices). I've been on the hunt for a solution to monitor what these devices send out and secure data ...
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How should we mitigate threats that are keep coming to our security monitoring system?
We have continuous cybersecurity threat feeds that coming to our SOC on a daily basis from different sources that provide all the new CVEs, new malware variations and more. We just don't know how to ...
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How to check if my PC's HTTPS/TLS connection is monitored or a key-logger is installed? [duplicate]
A few days ago, in the office, we were asked by our bosses to install a program. This was supposed to be an Antivirus program.
But after installing this program many of our colleagues have been ...
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Avoiding Dark Web monitoring detection
At our company, we offer security services to our clients. One of the things that management has pushed down to us is the need for dark web monitoring.
Because I am in the business meetings as well, ...
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Commercially available spyware not getting detected
I guess everyone here knows those commercially available stealth PC monitoring software.
I'm surprised that those trojans are hardly detected by virus scanners.
All surveillance makers recommend in ...
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osquery in Docker environment
I am currently researching security monitoring in Docker environments and want to explore the possibility of using osquery to gather activity from containers, but I have run into a bit of a security ...
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How can disabling Diffie-Hellman cipher for packet inspection be secure?
I have noticed that a number of network packet monitoring tools on the market today seem to have roughly the same recommended configuration parameters as described below:
Disable Diffie Hellman in ...
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Methods for analysing android app on runtime [closed]
I want to analyse security of android app by monitoring its behaviour on runtime. I need to monitor variables modifications, accesses and api calls while android app is running on the device. I tried ...
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Security Onion VMWare + OpenWRT IPTables Mirroring
I'm trying to set up SO in my home network to lab and see if I can monitor all ingress/egress traffic from my SOHO router. I don't have a switch with SPAN ports, or a network tap so I'm using OpenWRT ...
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What is the best way to analyze results of a technical security assessment? [closed]
I want to conduct a technical security assessment on my company's client computers with focus on Windows 10.
So far, my idea is to execute several Powershell scripts on the clients and gather the ...
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Are there any good instant messaging applications with a good end-to-end encryption to its web application? [closed]
Whether an app like Telegram is secure or not has already been answered and it has recently been confirmed that it is not. Apps like Signal and Cryptocat have been recommended instead. But do these ...
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Monitoring setup compromising online privacy [closed]
Original post has been updated and includes more details, hopefully it will be sufficient.
Background
I'm hoping that someone here has the adequate knowledge along with suggestions as to what can be ...
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How to get private keys for traffic decryption?
We are a huge organization with hundreds of web servers in a DMZ. We have appliances (a few of them in each location) where all incoming traffic from outside of the network is decrypted (well it ...
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Tools for monitoring wifi? [closed]
is there any tools in linux for :
monitoring upload and download traffic
host ip and mac using (that is live)
device name
of all users who use our wifi or local network?
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What are the core differences between Airodump-ng, Wireshark, and TCPdump? [closed]
As all three tools are packet sniffers, I would have expected them to give me the same results when I use them to monitor my home's network, but they don't. Therefore what are the core differences and ...
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Where would I place a sniffer to capture data in a home network with the following topology?
I am aware of the various techniques that there are to sniff around a network that has Hubs or Switches (port mirroring, hubbing out, use of taps), but I am not sure which method would be more ...
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How does WiFi NIC monitoring mode work, if at all? [closed]
I always wondered, when connected to WIFI network, does my NIC receives packets directly from other computers (not ones that passed through the router) and ignores them (similarly to what happens when ...
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How to monitor a logs directory with OSSEC agent in windows
My problem is that I have some windows programs I want to monitor with the following structure in the logs filename:
Program name%Y%m%d_%timestamp.log
Where %timestamp is formed by the concatenation ...
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How is the security of SSH affected in the presence of a passively monitoring MITM?
In an ideal world, where all links are fully trustworthy from a data integrity point of view, with proper settings, modern SSH can be more or less assumed to be fully secure against eavesdropping on ...
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SIEM Alien Vault recommended method for muting noise
I have installed Alien Vault into my environment and I am seeing a ton of logs going into the SIEM. Upon further investigation, I see that these are being generated by AlienVault itself. I think that ...
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Does Web proxy also get information of any files uploaded to cloud?
I want to detect any files uploaded from my computer to any website.
I was not able to find anything where I can directly detect any files uploaded from my computer to any website.
I hear that proxy ...
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tcpdump traffic to a remote host?
I unfortunately have to work with a publicly accessible 3rd party badwebsite.example.com where only the login form is served via HTTPS. The inbox, messenger, tickets queue - all go through HTTP. Is ...
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Is it possible to tell if an email went through a proxy type service where the email might be monitored?
Recently, we began implementing some 3rd party email proxy services that allow control filters for in and out bound emails. This is for compliance reasons.
Anyway, this got me thinking. Could it be ...
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Unknown device in home network
I have a home network that is behind NAT. My router IP address is 192.168.0.1 and DHCP is configured to provide addresses from the 192.168.0.1/24 range.
My desktop is connected trough the ethernet ...
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Legality IP collection/storage [closed]
Without giving too much away, I'm contemplating on designing a service/app for a specific business to monitor certain static IPs such as their service providers and other statically connected devices (...
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DRM - Make sure that a SDK is used by the client legally
We are an IT startup which provides some clients with a Software Development Kit, which may be used by the client within a specific environment, according to some terms and legal agreement.
Especially,...
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Who is talking to my laptop? No PCAP or firewall— in BYOD environment
Is there a method or a linux log to record IP addresses (and other network data) that are attempting to talk to a laptop sitting within an enterprise network from that laptop without running pcap-- ...
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SIEM: Monitoring End Users and DHCP IP assigning issue
I want to monitor my end users activity for which I have selected Alien Vault as my SIEM solution. Now, when I see logs coming in and I see malicious activity at a certain IP (e.g 10.10.10.4) with ...
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Unable to get EAPOL packets in monitor mode
I am not able to get EAPOL packets on Wireshark. I've provided my AP's PSK decryption key to protocol 802.11 and adjusted my monitor mode interface's(TP-Link WN722N) frequency channel correctly. I got ...
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How do ISPs impose data caps? [closed]
Nearly in every country, ISP's implement Data caps. Can somebody tell me how do they implement them at software / hardware level ?
How do they filter millions/billions of request and decide their ...
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How to analyse packets sent by controller in Wireshark?
I want to mimic a replay attack on controller PR402. I connected my computer with this controller via TCP/IP <-> Serial Bridge and I would like to analyse packets sent between computer and ...
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Can a Government block a specific app traffic, even with a VPN running?
A few minutes ago, there was a terror attack on a nightclub in Istanbul/Turkey(Thoughts and prayers to the victims and families), usually, the Government limits most of the communications apps traffic ...
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Tool to listen http traffic goes to different ports (Windows) [closed]
I am using a set of microservices (Spring MVC Hosted in Undertow containers along with Gradle) which are spawned on different ports in the same machine. Services make HTTP REST to each other.
I need ...
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SPAN traffic for “Internet to Ext FW”
Is it advisable to mirror the traffic between the internet and the external firewall while the management interface is accessible from within the network? This is to perform packet capture and ...
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IDS recomended UI? [closed]
I been using Snort IDS, but I recently switched to Suricata IDS since is still community based, etc.
With Snort I used to use Snorby...
What UI for searching organizing, removing false positives ...
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Monitor or prevent? DLP [duplicate]
Scenario:
I'm administrating my company's network all alone. I'm the only IT guy around and can not spend too much time with anything special as some people would start freaking out.
I have to ...
