We have been receiving several inquiries from pfSense users who would love to complement the classical firewall-style pfSense features with the inline Layer-7-based traffic policing offered by nEdge. Being able place pfSense and nEdge side by side allows to overcome … Continue reading
ntopng Multilanguage Support: EN, IT, DE and JP
We are happy to announce that ntopng has gone fully international! The following languages are now officially supported: English Italian Japanese German Language files are completely opensource, meaning that you can choose your preferred ntopng language, no matter if you … Continue reading
Cento 1.6 Stable Just Released
After more than one year since the latest stable release, we are glad to announce cento 1.6-stable. This new release brings stability, fixes and several new features. Among the new features, it is worth mentioning that: Flows can be exported … Continue reading
nDPI 2.8-stable is Out
This new release brings several fixes that make nDPI more stable. Such fixes involve especially DNS and HTTP traffic dissection. Here is the full list of changes: New Supported Protocols and Services Added Modbus over TCP dissector Improvements Wireshark Lua … Continue reading
How to export BGP routing information (AS Path) in network flows
Tools like traceroute have been used for a long time to track the forward path of packets, i.e. the journey of our packets to a remote destination. Unfortunately with traceroute nothing can be said about the path of ingress packets, … Continue reading
How to Track an Fight Malware, Ransomware, Botnets… using ntopng
Malware blacklists are not something new to ntopng. ntopng (including ntopng Edge) has integrated the emerging threats blacklist https://rules.emergingthreats.net for a long time. The 3.6 stable release also introduced some webmining blacklists, which would flag online mining sites and generate … Continue reading
Introducing libebpfflow: packet-less network traffic and container visibility based on eBPF
As previewed during our FOSDEM 2019 talk, this is to introduce libebpfflow a new library for enabling network traffic and container visibility based on eBPF. Designed to be CPU and memory friendly (its presence it is almost unnoticeable) , it … Continue reading
Identifying Suspicious Flows: Network Issues or Misbehaving Hosts ?
Starting from the latest 3.9 version, ntopng features and handy dropdown menu that allows you to filter flows on the basis of their current TCP state. Being able to filter flows on the basis of their TCP state is particularly … Continue reading
How to Detect Malware Hosts and Scanners Using ntopng
Hosts directly connected to the Internet are often contacted by scanners and malware hosts. Since a few releases ntopng integrates a blacklist that is refreshed daily. Whenever a host part of this list contacts your ntopng instance and alert is … Continue reading
Network Traffic Analysis in ntopng (a.k.a. ntopng 2019 Roadmap)
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam, Hannibal 247-182 B.C. For years ntopng has been a solution for collecting, analysing and visualising network traffic, but with a major limitation. It is too rich in data display and reporting that users needs to … Continue reading