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  <title>Noxen Blog</title>
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  <updated>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
  <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
  <subtitle>Nightly homelab security audits from your Mac.</subtitle>
  <entry>
    <title>CUPS exposed on your LAN — the September 2024 CVE chain</title>
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    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/cups-exposed-on-your-lan-cve-2024-47176/</id>
    <published>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Four chained CVEs in cups-browsed turn an unauthenticated UDP packet into RCE. What the chain actually does, who's exposed, and how to check your homelab.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Container breakout in homelab Proxmox — CVE-2024-21626 explained</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/container-breakout-cve-2024-21626-homelab-proxmox/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/container-breakout-cve-2024-21626-homelab-proxmox/</id>
    <published>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>The Leaky Vessels runc CVE turns a hostile container image into host root. What it actually does, why Proxmox LXC users care, and how to verify your fix.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The libwebp problem — when one bundled library breaks a hundred apps</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/libwebp-bundled-library-cve-2023-4863/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/libwebp-bundled-library-cve-2023-4863/</id>
    <published>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-06-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>CVE-2023-4863 is the textbook bundled-library CVE. One bug in one library, hundreds of patches across Chromium, Electron, Home Assistant, Plex. What every homelab missed.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Home Assistant security checklist — hardening before you expose the smart home</title>
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    <published>2026-05-27T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Twelve hardening checks for self-hosted Home Assistant — auth, network exposure, integrations, supervisor add-ons, backups, secrets. Exact commands and what Noxen flags automatically.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Pi-hole security checklist — admin panel, DNS exposure, and update hygiene</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/pi-hole-security-checklist/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/pi-hole-security-checklist/</id>
    <published>2026-05-27T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Pi-hole sits on the trust path between every device on your LAN and the internet. Ten hardening checks for the admin UI, DNS resolver, blocklist sources, and update cadence. Exact commands and what Noxen flags automatically.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Proxmox security checklist — VE web UI, cluster comms, and storage hardening</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/proxmox-security-checklist/"/>
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    <published>2026-05-27T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Proxmox sits below every VM and container in your homelab — compromise it and the rest of the fleet is dust. Twelve hardening checks for the web UI on port 8006, cluster encryption, storage permissions, and update cadence. Exact commands and what Noxen flags automatically.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Vulnerability scanner false positives are a UX bug, not a feature</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/vulnerability-scanner-false-positives/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/vulnerability-scanner-false-positives/</id>
    <published>2026-05-11T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Why most vulnerability scanners fail at the trust step. The five sources of scanner false positives, the diff-first fix, the honest tradeoffs of cutting noise, and what "the scanner earns its second run" actually means.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Before you expose a service to the web — the non-negotiable Linux server hardening checklist</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/before-you-expose-a-service-to-the-web/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/before-you-expose-a-service-to-the-web/</id>
    <published>2026-05-10T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Eight checks for the decision point — not general hardening, but what changes the moment a Linux service becomes reachable from the internet. SSH, TLS, exposed admin panels, package CVEs, and why drift detection matters more than the one-time pass.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Ubuntu 22.04 LTS hardening checklist — 12 SSH and TLS audits before April 2027</title>
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    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/ubuntu-22-04-lts-hardening-checklist/</id>
    <published>2026-05-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Ubuntu 22.04 hits end of standard support in April 2027. Twelve audit-ready SSH, TLS, and package-policy checks every Jammy homelab box should run before then — exact commands, what to fix, and what Noxen flags automatically.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>CVE-2024-3094 (xz/liblzma backdoor) — what homelabs had to fear and how to check</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/cve-2024-3094-xz-backdoor-homelab/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/cve-2024-3094-xz-backdoor-homelab/</id>
    <published>2026-05-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-05-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>The 2024 supply-chain backdoor in xz-utils targeted sshd via liblzma. What it actually did, which distros shipped affected versions, the one-line check, and what supply-chain hygiene a homelab can realistically practice.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>10 homelab security quick wins to knock out in an afternoon</title>
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    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Ten practical homelab security improvements you can ship in a single afternoon. SSH, TLS, firewall, package updates, exposed services.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Agentless SSH host inventory</title>
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    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>What </summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 in your homelab</title>
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    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/cve-2022-3602-and-3786-in-your-homelab/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>The OpenSSL X.509 email-address buffer overflows (</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Why Noxen flags exposed admin panels but never logs in</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/flag-only-not-authenticate/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/flag-only-not-authenticate/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Default-credential testing is explicitly out of scope for Noxen. Why that</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How often should you scan your homelab for vulnerabilities?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/how-often-should-you-scan-your-homelab/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/how-often-should-you-scan-your-homelab/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Daily, weekly, monthly? A practical answer for homelab operators about scan cadence, balancing signal against alert fatigue.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Mac-native homelab vulnerability scanner</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/mac-homelab-vulnerability-scanner/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/mac-homelab-vulnerability-scanner/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>A Mac-native homelab vulnerability scanner. Agentless over SSH. One-time purchase. No Docker, no SaaS. Built for people who run their own boxes.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The monthly homelab security checklist</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/monthly-homelab-security-checklist/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/monthly-homelab-security-checklist/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>A monthly checklist for homelab operators: patch status, SSH hygiene, TLS expiry, firewall audit, backup verification.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Nessus alternative for Mac homelabs</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/nessus-alternative-for-mac-homelabs/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/nessus-alternative-for-mac-homelabs/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Nessus is a Mercedes. You need a bicycle. Noxen is a Mac-native, agentless, one-time-purchase vulnerability scanner for home labs.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Pareto Security for your whole fleet</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/pareto-security-for-your-fleet/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/pareto-security-for-your-fleet/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Pareto Security audits the local Mac. Noxen extends the same Mac-native security UX to every remote box you own — agentless, over SSH.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Why your Raspberry Pi</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/raspberry-pi-outdated-openssl/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/raspberry-pi-outdated-openssl/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Raspberry Pi OS ships with OpenSSL, libssl3, libcurl, and a dozen TLS-adjacent libraries that accumulate CVEs. Here</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>SSH key hygiene for homelabs</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/ssh-key-hygiene-for-homelabs/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/ssh-key-hygiene-for-homelabs/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Every homelab accumulates SSH keys. How to audit them, find the ones you forgot, and rotate safely.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>TLS certificate expiry on self-hosted services</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/tls-certificate-expiry-self-hosted/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/tls-certificate-expiry-self-hosted/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>How to stop your self-hosted services from going down at 3am because a certificate expired. Monitoring, renewals, fallback strategies.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Why Noxen ships via Developer ID, not the Mac App Store</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://noxen.app/blog/why-developer-id-not-mas/"/>
    <id>https://noxen.app/blog/why-developer-id-not-mas/</id>
    <published>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <author><name>Noxen Team</name></author>
    <summary>Developer ID direct distribution for Noxen: sandbox compatibility, App Review risk on </summary>
  </entry>
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