Doug Burks

@dougburks.bsky.social

Founder and CEO of Security Onion Solutions. I post mostly about Security Onion, SO-CRATES, and OhMyDebn. Believer, husband, father.

OhMyDebn 4.3.0 now available! OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. Tons of improvements in this release including new preview carousel for themes and backgrounds and 1-click access to over 3,000 other themes!

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SO-CRATES 4 is now available! SO-CRATES is a standalone web application for analyzing pcap files, log files, and binary files. LOTS of great features in this release including alert acknowledgement, keyboard navigation, and animated backgrounds for fun themes!

OhMyDebn 4.2.0 now available! ✅Updates cliamp to 1.63.0 ✅Updates Google Chrome installation to use ohmydebn-google-chrome-stable-install ✅Updates OpenCode to 1.18.16 ✅Updates SO-CRATES to 3.2.0 continued...

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Doug Burks@dougburks.bsky.social · last wk.

SO-CRATES 3.2 is now available! Another BIG release but here are the highlights: - Includes AI Summaries and Playbooks - New pivot menu - More rulesets and tuning options Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments below!

SO-CRATES 3.2 is now available! Another BIG release but here are the highlights: - Includes AI Summaries and Playbooks - New pivot menu - More rulesets and tuning options Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments below!

OhMyDebn 4.1.0 is now available! OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.

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SO-CRATES 3.1 is now available! TONS of improvements in this release including: new Rules interface new Notes interface new Themes interface with optional OhMyDebn theme sync new About modal updated Welcome modal and lots more under the hood

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Security Onion 3.2.0 is NOW AVAILABLE, with a whole bunch of new features and quality of life improvements. - Initial implementation of Agentic AI functionality - Gemma now available - Datastream Lifecycle Management - ES|QL support for Sigma rules - Updates to nearly two dozen major components

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SO-CRATES 3 is LIVE 🔥 Container for Rapid Analysis of Threats, Evil, and Sus Makes quick work of your pcap, log, and file analysis Now with: Suricata 8 support for more protocol metadata sqlite backend optimizations for performance and scalability new themes (CGA, C64, Vaporwave, and more)

OhMyDebn 4.0 now available with SO-CRATES 2.1.0, OpenCode 1.18.4, cliamp 1.60.1, and more! OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.

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🚀 SO-CRATES 2.1.0 is here! 🔥 Standalone container for rapid analysis of PCAP, logs & binaries just got even better! New highlights: ✅More protocol support (Modbus, DNP3, PostgreSQL) ✅Improved theme engine ✅Fresh Matte Black theme ✅Nostalgic Sguil theme (shoutout to the legends!)

OhMyDebn 3.8.9 now available with SO-CRATES 2.0 and OpenCode 1.17.20! OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.

Doug Burks@dougburks.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 SO-CRATES 2.0 is LIVE! 🔥 Security Onion Containerized Rapid Analysis of Threats, Evil, and Sus just leveled up. New in v2.0: • Brand new Hacker Mode 👀 • One-click “Delete all previous analyses” • Fresh favicon + polish

🚨 SO-CRATES 2.0 is LIVE! 🔥 Security Onion Containerized Rapid Analysis of Threats, Evil, and Sus just leveled up. New in v2.0: • Brand new Hacker Mode 👀 • One-click “Delete all previous analyses” • Fresh favicon + polish

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🚨 SO-CRATES 2.0 is LIVE! 🔥 Security Onion Containerized Rapid Analysis of Threats, Evil, and Sus just leveled up. New in v2.0: • Brand new Hacker Mode 👀 • One-click “Delete all previous analyses” • Fresh favicon + polish

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OhMyDebn 3.8.8 now available with SO-CRATES 1.1.1 and OpenCode 1.17.18! OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.

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Doug Burks@dougburks.bsky.social · last mo.

🥗 SO-CRATES went on a diet! 1.1.1 cuts the container image size in **half** with a new multi-stage build. Leaner, faster, still awesome for analyzing PCAPs, logs & binaries. Who’s trying the new slim version? ❤️

🥗 SO-CRATES went on a diet! 1.1.1 cuts the container image size in **half** with a new multi-stage build. Leaner, faster, still awesome for analyzing PCAPs, logs & binaries. Who’s trying the new slim version? ❤️

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OhMyDebn 3.8.7 now available with OpenCode 1.17.14 and new option to install Claude Code! OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.

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USING SOFTWARE RAID? We've identified an issue with an updated release of mdadm that could cause problems for Security Onion deployments using software RAID filesystems. If that applies to you, this blog post has more information: blog.securityonion.net/2026/07/poss...

Possible Software RAID Issue With Recent mdadm Package

We identified an issue with mdadm version "mdadm - v4.4 - 2024-11-07 - 4" that can cause software RAID issues after a reboot. We have remove...

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OhMyDebn 3.8.6 now available with OpenCode 1.17.13 and new option to install Brave browser! OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.

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