Sniffnet

Did you know you can detect potentially malicious network connections using Sniffnet? 🕵️♂️ Today's blog post shows you how to improve your network security awareness by leveraging IP blacklists in Sniffnet. https://lnkd.in/etSgYSiZ

What I learned securing Sniffnet with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund 🔒 Recently Sniffnet completed the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, a program focused on improving the security of widely used open-source projects. The program consists of an immersive 3-week sprint that provides each onboarded project with $10k in funding, hands-on training, and mentorship to help maintainers understand that security is a baseline requirement, not a nice-to-have. In a world where Murphy’s law reigns supreme (“anything that can go wrong will go wrong”), what we can do is be prepared for it: security planning and implementation is as important as the rest of development, and can’t be downgraded to a mere reactive countermeasure used only when things go sideways. I feel a responsibility to amplify security awareness by sharing the knowledge and best practices I learned, so that other developers can take inspiration and apply similar proactive measures in their own projects: incident response planning, threat modeling, code scanning, and immutable releases are just some examples of the things that you can (and should) do. I tried to collect and organize all the lessons I take home from the program in a blog post you can find here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/evrC-fGp

It’s been 4 years since Sniffnet’s first line of code 🥳 Since then, the project has grown enormously: we’ve gone from “the temptation to make a GUI is strong” to the most popular network monitoring app on GitHub. To celebrate the anniversary, we’ve shared part of the journey on our blog: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eUxnhEBw

Sniffnet v1.5.1 was just published 🎉️️️️️️ Measure connections latency, support CIDR ranges in IP blacklists, new translations of the app, and other improvements. https://lnkd.in/g-xgp-Jv

Huge thanks to CodeRabbit for sponsoring Sniffnet 💖 CodeRabbit provides AI-powered code reviews giving context-aware feedback that helps teams ship better code, faster. But this isn’t the only way they’re helping maintainers: they’ve already committed over $1 million to open source development, and today they also started supporting us! This kind of support is what keeps independent projects sustainable, and we’re genuinely grateful for it. Want to help Sniffnet grow too? Join them and other amazing companies 👇 https://lnkd.in/ebkMvXge

Sniffnet hits the newsstand! 🗞️ LinuxUser, a popular German tech magazine, featured Sniffnet on the cover of their July issue, with a 3-page deep dive inside. It's lowkey exciting to see Sniffnet make the jump from screens to paper!

Sniffnet just reached 500k downloads! 🎉 What started almost for fun nearly 4 years ago is now installed half a million times worldwide. Huge thanks to everyone who has used Sniffnet and shared feedback over time helping to get here. 🫶 Sniffnet won’t stop and we already can’t wait for the 1 million mark! Let’s keep the snowball rolling and make network monitoring comfortable for even more people! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/dGx_DN8e

New domain name and official emails for Sniffnet 📨 The old domain (sniffnet.net) was chosen in a hurry, didn't include mail services, and as time passed we grew more and more dissatisfied with it, especially because of the "net" repeating in the app name and TLD. We could've just updated the old plan to add emails, but we took the opportunity to also change the domain name to sniffnet.app, which is more fitting for a software project and sounds less awkward. Read more in today's blog post. https://lnkd.in/dHqWpWSg

Sniffnet 1.5 is out 🎉 This is a remarkable milestone as Sniffnet is now finally able to show the apps and programs that are using your network bandwidth! Read the blog post to know more about this and other new major features. https://lnkd.in/dce3_7pD

Just received a wonderful gift from GitHub 🤩 “Thank you for everything you’ve done this year — sharing thoughtful product feedback, building in the open, and helping open source thrive. Your contributions truly make a difference, and we’re grateful for the time, care, and creativity you bring to the community.” A huge thank you to Abigail Cabunoc Mayes and the whole team at GitHub for this present, the heartfelt letter, and for providing the tools and infrastructure I use on a daily basis ❤️