Presenter: Robin S
Topic: An overview of some distributed/clustered filesystems
Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park
Robin introduced us to a variety of different distributed filesystems, and walked through some of the basic features of MooseFS, SeaweedFS, JuiceFS, and a few others.
Physical location: Boston Pizza, 4804 Calgary Trail NW, Edmonton, AB
Virtual location: none
Thanks to everyone who came out to the December social. It was so nice to see and meet everyone in person, including a few new faces.
Good eats, good conversation, good company, good times.
Topic: bash ‘vim mode’ and general discussion
Presenter: Rajiv
Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room; 401 Festival Lane Sherwood Park
Topic: Tools to use to detect and block bad “stuffs”
Presenter: Rajiv
Physical location: Strathcona County Public Library, Maple Room
Rajiv walked through a list of tools that are useful in managing computer and connectivity security in Linux-centric environments.
OS
Qubes: qubes-os.org
Tails: tails.net
Sandbox
firejailtools.wordpress.com
kasmweb.com
Malware
clamav.net
rootkit hunter: rkhunter
Network
nmap
Vulnerability
nessus: tenable.com
openvas.org
qualys.com
Logging
ELK: elastic.co/elastic-stack (community edition)
ossim: cybersecurity.att.com
Analysis
Zeek: github.com/zeek/zeek (packet capture)
RITA: github.com/activecm/rita
vim
Forensics
docs.velociraptor.app
Google Rapid Response: github.com/google/grr
Detection/Prevention
snort.org
suricata: github.com/OISF/
Privacy badger: github.com/EFForg/privacybadger
pi-hole.net
Ublock-origin: github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Firewall
OpenSnitch: github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
PortMaster: safing.io
github.com/hectorm/hblock
pfsense.org
(opnsense)
Random other links:
linuxsecurity.expert/
www.isc2.org/certifications/cc
speedtest.net
Topic: How to set up and use opnsense/pfsense, a.k.a. a refresher in how to secure your home network
Presenter: Robert was the test subject
We walked through a hypothetical home network setup, where the user (me) wanted to isolate his home network from the default ISP router-created network. I also wanted to add pihole (or some equivalent adblocking functionatlity).
Either one of pfsense or Opnsense will do for this purpose; i happened to choose opnsense because that’s the one that installed with no issues. David and Rajiv provided some direction in how to configure opnsense, and we discussed other options and configurations that may be useful for other users and varying situations.
Topic: Docker
Physical location: Strathcona County Library, Maple Room
Manuel led us through how to use Docker.
Topic: Linux Desktop
Physical location: Strathcona County Library, Birch Room
Twas a fairly informal affair, discussion about different desktop experiences and various and sundry related babbits…
Topic: Shell scripts!
Presenter: Everyone!
Physical location: Strathcona County Library, Maple Room
We apologize for the technical difficulties that prevented us from starting the online meeting on time. (Something to do with ISP, technical jargon, blah blah blah, reboot, oh look there it’s up again.)
So, after introductions and a token cursory round of questions to each person about shell scripts, we ended up just munching pizza (thanks Rajiv!) and chit chatting about whatever.
Nice to finally meet HD Rajiv live and in person! 🙂 And welcome to the group Max!
Topic: Random and sundry things
Physical location: Veterans Village Common Room
‘Twas an enjoyable evening in a different physical location.
Dave was kind enough to lend his internet bandwidth so that we could stream the meeting. Thanks Dave!
We went around the virtual table and each person talked a bit about what they were doing with Linux:
* Dave talked about proxmox and hypervisor stuff
* Norman had a question about pbx
* Sam talked about his ideas for his home lab
* Sam had a question about security for backup codes
-> the general consensus is: As much as possible, KEEP YOUR SECURITY CODES OFFLINE, i.e. not connected to internet AT ALL.
There was some general discussion around gaming on linux, as well as some talk about linux on android – grapheneOS.org
Topic: Home “labs”
Physical location: Strathcona County Library, Birch Room
Manuel and David shared an overview of their home lab setup.