Realtime login monitoring with Pushover

See Part 2. My previous article was about securing your Raspberry Pi and having it alert you via email whenever something suspicious occurred. This time I’m taking it a step further, and adding real time push notifications whenever somebody logs in via ssh. For delivering the notifications I’m using Pushover, which is a generic push service, with clients for both iOS and Android. The app isn’t free, but once you purchase it, the service is free up to 7500 messages per app, per month, which is more than enough for this purpose. [Read More]

Securing a collocated Raspberry Pi

There’s an updated version available of this guide here This is a small guide i wrote for setting up a new Raspberry Pi server hosted at PCExtreme I know there are plenty of guides on how to secure your server, but i wanted this as a recipe for myself. I don’t normally use “cookbooks”, but since setting up a remote server isn’t as trivial as setting up a local server, i felt it was worth creating a list of things to do, afterall if things go wrong you can’t just pull the plug. [Read More]