arp-scan is a simple tool that can be used list the IP addresses (and devices) used in a network. It works by sender ARP 'who-has' requests for every IP address of the subnet. If the IP address is used by a device, it will reply with an ARP 'reply' packet.
Readtoastr is a JavaScript library that allows to display nice user notifications in your web application. In this blog post we will see how to integrate toastr in a Laravel project.
ReadToday we released version 1.1.0 of the cyrange Cyber Range platform. This version brings an important new feature : scenarios. A scenario allows to define a large scale exercise, involving multiple virtual machines, that can be interconnected using a complex network. Moreover, to run the exercise, the cyrange platform will deploy a copy of each defined VM for each trainee. Let's see how...
ReadDNS is a real corner stone of privacy and security on the Internet! From the security point of view, DNS is used by your machine to link a domain name to an IP address. DNS is also used to find the email server of a recipient (using MX records). On a desktop computer, DNS is used by email clients to perform auto-configuration. Over the Internet, DNS records are used to prevent BGP hijacking (using RPKI). The list is long! From the privacy point of view, the DNS queries sent by your computer offer a clear view of the services you use.
ReadWhen developing a web application with Laravel, you will usually have to deal with different users, that have different permissions. If the application is quite simple, with only 2 types of users (administrators that are almighty and regular users that have no permission) you can use a middleware to protect your administrator's area. In this blog post we look at Laravel policies, that allow fine-grain control of user actions.
ReadRecording the DNS queries perform by devices on your network is a simple and efficient way of monitoring your network. In this blog post we show how to configure the bind DNS server to log these...
ReadYesterday we organized the 2nd session of our cyber security evening. This series of events is a collaboration between the Royal Military Academy and MolenGeek. It aims to contribute to the preparation of the future generation of cyber specialists.
ReadThe cyrange Cyber Range is composed of multiple docker containers. After installation, here is how to configure your firewall to allow communication between the different components...
ReadIn a previous blog post, we showed how to install cyrange cyber range web interface using docker-compose. So now the cyrange Docker container is exposed on port 8080 on your server, and the guacamole container is exposed on port 8081. In this blog post we show how to configure Apache as a reverse proxy in front of your containers.
ReadBy default, Laravel (and Bootstrap) applications use fonts (like Nunito or Raleway) that are provided and hosted by Google. This is easy to use for developers, but comes with some drawbacks, including a performance penalty. Luckily, there is an open source project that makes it simple to use self-hosted fonts: fontsource.org
ReadLoki is a log database developed by Grafana Labs. In a previous blog post we have shown how to run Loki with docker-compose. In this blog post we will deploy Loki on a Kubernetes cluster, and we will use it to monitor the log of our pods.
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