I Put a Vulnerable Server on The Internet
Source: YouTube · John Hammond · published May 22, 2024 · 15:19
The video demonstrates CrowdSec, a "massively multiplayer online firewall" that uses crowdsourced threat intelligence to protect servers 0:00-0:20.
Key Takeaways:
• CrowdSec is a collaborative cybersecurity platform that aggregates threat signals from across the internet to create actionable block lists 1:19-1:40
• Installation involves setting up a security engine, remediation component, and enrolling endpoints in the CrowdSec network 3:30-3:46
• Users can subscribe to community-maintained block lists for various threats including botnets, proxies, and brute force attacks 4:40-5:00
• The vulnerable test server received 53 alerts from malicious actors in just two weeks, demonstrating the platform's effectiveness 6:50-7:10
• CrowdSec provides detailed visualization of attacks including source IP addresses, targeted services, and geographic origins 8:00-8:20
CrowdSec offers an open-source, community-driven approach to cybersecurity that makes threat protection accessible and effective 10:05-10:25.
Sources:
- 0:00-0:20 Introduction to the vulnerable server experiment and CrowdSec
- 1:19-1:40 Explanation of CrowdSec's collaborative threat intelligence concept
- 3:30-3:46 Installation and enrollment process for CrowdSec
- 4:40-5:00 Setting up block lists and remediation components
- 6:50-7:10 Results showing 53 detected threats
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I put a vulnerable server on the open internet just to see if it'll get hacked and spoiler alert it's going to get hacked because I'm going to hack it and hey you can too look seriously here's the IP address hack the thing go wild but you might get blocked from the security that I have in place because for this machine I've set up crowd secc and crowd secc has already blocked a handful of attacks take a look already stopping over 50 threats across the open internet now let me be straight up crowd secc is the sponsor of this video but seriously honestly they have something really cool here it's awesome and I want to show you it's like a whole new idea and approach to cyber security think of it as like a massively multiplayer online firewall or detections or hey mitigations blocking threats …