nProbe

Introducing nProbe 9.4: New Platforms Support and Product Editions
This is to announce nProbe 9.4 stable that is an incremental update of 9.2 released last fall. The goal of this maintenance release is to pave the way to pervasive embedded systems support as we now support OPNsense/pfSense/FreeBSD Soon we’ll make a separate announcement as soon as more ntop packages will be available for these platforms. Ubiquity EdgeRouter X Read this blog post for learning more about sub 100$ Ubiquity-based hardware probes. OpenWRT In addition we have decided to simplify the nProbe versions that were hard to understand for most …
Guides

ntopng, InfluxDB and Grafana: A Step-By-Step Guide to Create Dashboards
Creating Grafana dashboards out of ntopng data basically boils down to: Configuring ntopng to export timeseries data to InfluxDB Configuring the Grafana InfluxDB datasource to extract timeseries data from InfluxDB Adding Grafana Dashboards panels with ntopng data This post aims at covering the topics above to serve as reference for those who want to create Grafana dashboards. Configuring ntopng to Export Timeseries Data to InfluxDB To configure ntopng to export timeseries data to InfluxDB, visit the ntopng Timeseries preferences page, and pick InfluxDB as driver. Then, it suffices to configure …
nScrub

A Step-By-Step Guide for Protecting Your Network with nScrub
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks represent a family cyber-attacks that are more and more common nowadays. They aim to make the service unavailable by overwhelming the victim with high traffic volumes (this is the case of volumetric or amplification attacks based on UDP, ICMP, DNS, …) or an high number of requests (including TCP connection attacks like the SYB flood, or Layer 7 attacks able to exhaust the resources of the service at the application level). This differentiate them from other cyber-attacks like intrusion attacks or malwares aiming to destroying, stealing …
nDPI

Efficiently Detecting and Blocking SunBurst Malware
Earlier this month a new highly evasive malware attacker named SunBurst has been disclosed. Immediately some countermeasures have been disclosed and in particular some Snort/Suricata rules have been published. We have analysed the rules trying to figure out if ntop tools could detect and block Sunburst and the answer is yes, you can. Let’s have a look at some of the rules. The first thing you can observe is that the rules are any/any, meaning that an IDS has to look into every single connection this because most IDS do …
ntop

Dec 10th, ntop miniconf 2020 part III: nProbe and n2disk (on embedded systems)
This is a reminder for the third and last part of our mini-conference 2020 scheduled for this Thursday, December 10th 4 PM CET/10 AM EST. This time we’ll focus on the latest nProbe and n2disk features and provide a short practical tutorial. In addition we’ll cover ntopng alert and endpoints. Finally we’ll discuss how to embed ntop toolsin small devices for ubiquitous monitoring Below you can find all details, including the webinar link and calendar entry. Luca Deri: nProbe Traffic Monitoring and Embedding Carlos Talbot: Embedding ntopng on Ubiquity UDM …
n2disk

Exploiting Arista MetaWatch with n2disk and ntopng: HighRes Timestamping and Analytics
Precise packet timestamping is a key feature for network traffic analysis and troubleshooting. Traditionally many people use FPGA-based NICs with precise timestamping (e.g. Napatech, Silicom) even though a good precision can be obtained with PTP-based NICs such as many Intel network adapters. A better alternative to this practice is to avoid ad all using specialised adapters and rely on existing network devices to timestamp packets. Arista packet brokers with MetaWatch  can be configured to add an extra trailer (Metamako) with metadata to every captured packet. In fact Arista 7150 Series …
Announce

Dec 3rd, ntop miniconf 2020 part II: ntopng
This is a reminder for the second part of our mini-conference 2020 scheduled for this Thursday, December 3rd 4 PM CET/10 AM EST. This time we’ll focus on the latest ntopng 4.2 features. We have the pleasure to host our friends at Tribe29 that will preview how ntopng has been integrated with CheckMK, Nextworks and Verxo that will talk about using ntopng and ntopng Edge in real use cases, and Cubro who will present a new product that embeds ntopng. Below you can find all details, including the webinar link …
ntop

Using ntopng as network sensor for SecurityOnion (and integrated with Suricata)
SecurityOnion (SO) is a popular Linux distribution for threat hunting and security. It included ElasticSearch as backend for storing alerts as well as Kibana-based web interface. SO includes out of the box a few sensors such as Suricata that is a signature-based IDS used for flow analysis. To date SO does not include a tool that is able to merge network and security analysis or that can collect input from sensors and provide a high-level consolidated alert (e.g. a DoS vs individual alerts generated by Suricata). As most of our …
ntop

Embedding ntop: Nokia Beacon and Ubiquity UniFi Dream Machine
The latest generation of network devices are pretty powerful and open. This means that such devices ship with a Linux-based distribution such as OpenWRT or UniFI OS. In these devices it is possible to install third party software as the CPU is pretty powerful, there is some storage and memory available for running additional applications. In this blog post we want to describe our experience with two of these devices where it is possible to install ntop tools. This allows the network traffic to be monitored without having to install …
ntop

Using ntop tools on VyOS
VyOS  is a popular open-source router and firewall platform based on Linux, and some of our users asked us to support it natively. This post explains you how to achieve that in a few simple steps. Prerequisites As VyOS is based on Debian Linux, the easiest solution is to install precompiled Debian packages or compile it from source. In order to do this you need to configure the Debian repositories that on VyOS are empty. You need (as root) to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and store on it something like this: deb …
ntopng

You’re Invited to the ntop MiniConference 2020: November 24th, December 3rd and 10th
This year due to the pandemic, we had to cancel our scheduled community event. Considered that we have introduced many new features in our tools we would like to invite you to an online mini-conference divided in three distinct events. The first event is a general even where we briefly summarise what we have done in the individual tools so people can have an overview of what we have done and where we would like to go. The other two events are instead focusing on specific tools so people can …
ntopng

Howto Write a Telegram Alert Endpoint for ntopng
Telegram is a popular messaging application that many people use daily to do instant messaging and receive notifications. As of ntopng 4.2, it is now possible to deliver alerts to external entities including Slack, email and Discord. This post will show you how the Telegram alert endpoint has been developed so that readers can learn how to contribute to the ntopng development by coding new integrations. For a complete guide about alert endpoints, please refer to the ntopng user’s guide, whereas the complete telegram endpoint source code can be found …

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