Crowdsec – Collaborative Security
Crowdsec is a relatively new tool in the security world, it’s an Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), it allow the detection of threats and the adding of necessary firewall rules if needed. Crowdsec differs from other IPS because of the collaboration aspect. It also offer an on-premise or cloud dashboard. You may have heard, or used […]
Host a Tor Bridge
First, What is tor ? Tor, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. It directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network, consisting of more than six thousand relays, for concealing a user’s location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor […]
Nextcloud Cron Setup
You may have encountered the following warning after a Nextcloud install or you may even never seen it but Nextcloud need to execute some background tasks regularly to insure it’s good working condition. Some cleanups need to be executed on a daily basis. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check your Nextcloud application […]
Fixing Broken Nextcloud – MariaDB 10.X Upgrade
As a classic HomeLab enjoyer I self-host most of the stuff I use daily. But few days ago while maintaining my Nextcloud instance, I updated Nextcloud & MariaDB to catch up on the latest patches. Unfortunately, my docker install was unable to start properly again and I was greeted by the following error : So […]