::: Analyze Network Traffic using "Security Onion" :::

Security Onion is a Linux distro that includes Intrusion Detection System(IDS) , Network Security Monitoring(NSM) and Log management.

It is open source and free. Developed by Doug Burks.

It includes
1) Sguil : Sguil (pronounced sgweel or squeal) is a collection of Free software components for Network Security Monitoring (NSM) and event driven analysis of IDS alerts.

2) Snorby : Snorby is a new and modern Snort IDS front-end.

3) Squert : Squert is a web application that is used to query and view event data stored in a Sguil database (typically IDS alert data). Squert is a visual tool that attempts to provide additional context to events through the use of metadata, time series representations and weighted and logically grouped result sets.

d) ELSA : Enterprise log search and archive (ELSA) is a centralized syslog framework built on Syslog-NG, MySQL, and Sphinx full-text search. It provides a fully asynchronous web-based query interface that normalizes logs and makes searching billions of them for arbitrary strings as easy as searching the web. It also includes tools for assigning permissions for viewing the logs as well as email based alerts, scheduled queries, and graphing.

Check Security Onion tutorial link

::: "RECUVA" - File Recovery Software :::

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted from your iPod, or by bugs, crashes and viruses!

• Simple to use interface - just click 'Scan' and choose the files you want to recover
• Easy to use filter for results based on file name/type
• Simple Windows like interface with List and Tree view
• Can be run from a USB thumb drive
• Restores all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything.
• Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems
• Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.)
• Restores files from external ZIP drives , Firewire and USB Hard drives
• It's fast, tiny and takes seconds to run!

Download Recuva

::: CHINA spying by planting microchips in Electronic devices that can scan Wi-Fi devices to serve Malware :::

China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan Wi-Fi devices to serve malware

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