GrrCon 2021: Machine Learning Driven Social Engineering
Machine Learning Driven Social Engineering talk will be given at GrrCon on 9/16/2021 at 4:30pm. Abstract Machine learning (ML) is arguably the most potent advancement in technology since atomic fission with similar benefit and risk extremes. The outcome driven nature...
2020 FBI Internet Crime Report
The 2020 Internet Crime Report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been released and can be viewed here: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2020_IC3Report.pdf. I highly recommend all in SECOPS take a moment to grok the content. I’d like to...
Eventual Consistency in Business Meetings
Brewers CAP Theorem Computer Scientist, Eric Brewer, stipulated in the theorem that carries his name that you can have two out of three guarantees in distributed data storage with the guarantees being consistency, availability and partition tolerance. The limitations...
WitFooPi – Precinct on a Raspberry Pi 4
Deploying WitFoo Precinct on a Raspberry Pi 4 for portable testing, training and education purposes is now possible.
Cassandra 4.0 Testing
WitFoo Precinct persists and replicates data on big-data NoSQL platform Apache Cassandra. Precinct 6.1.3 is built on Cassandra 3.11. In preparation for upgrade to Cassandra 4.0, the following lab & production testing was conducted. Lab Appliances WitFoo Precinct...
Our Move from Elastic to Cassandra
How WitFoo Development moved from Elastic to Apache Cassandra for a superior technology and license.
Fake Cybersecurity Awards
Cybersecurity expert, Chris Roberts, lamented earlier today in a LinkedIn post that he was offered a cybersecurity award for the low price of $1,200. His outrage prompted me to realize that most cybersecurity professionals and decision makers do not get the...
Help On The Way
Cybersecurity is difficult, even for the most well-funded and security conscious organizations. The amount of knowledge and skill required to be successful is immense. Even with deep pockets and expert personnel, the volume of work required is more than...
Searching Precinct for Solarwinds Breach
https://player.vimeo.com/video/498399264 Searching for the TLD of the Solarwinds DGA will quickly reveal any hits reported to Precinct. The TLD to search is avsvmcloud.com. Months of incident data can be searched in moments and full, big-data search can run as a job....
18 Years of Getting SOAR to Fly
On Emergency Leave on 9/11 In September of 2001, I had been on active duty in the US Navy for 6 years. I was stationed with the World-Famous Golden Dragons of VFA-192 in Atsugi, Japan, running the night shift of the Integrated Weapons Team. On the morning of September...