Hello and welcome to the Tuesday, March 5, 2020, edition of the Santernet Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, and today I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

In today's diary, we have sort of an old topic renewed, and that's how you are capturing packets in Home Labs.

One of the quick and dirty ways to do that is a little passive tab, which has the advantage

that, well, first of all, it's cheap, it's simple.

You can even make them yourself as shown in this diary.

However, these simple tabs also come with some significant drawbacks, most notably

that they're limited to 100 megabit. So even many home internet connections probably will be

slowed down if you add a tap like this. My own sort of preferred solutions these days,

if you are on the budget, is a simple five port. Switch, there are now a number of switches

in the sort of $20 to $50 price range that offer a monitor port or a span port that works quite well in a setup like this.

A tab for a home network, typically doesn't have to be perfect, and you're certainly willing to

drop a couple packets here and there for a much lower price. eBay also always a great source

for some sort of more professional equipment, but that comes

with other disadvantages, like for example that it's usually quite noisy and sometimes

not easy to operate or requires special licenses.

Let me have more bad news for Team City users.

That's the JetBrains product.

It's had a couple of vulnerabilities earlier this year, and now we have three more

vulnerabilities that are allowing an unauthenticated attacker to access the Team City server as an administrator.

A patch was released by JetBrains today.

There is an update available that you can apply.

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