Month: October 2012
Packetpig can now be used with Amazon’s Elastic Map/Reduce (EMR) for Big Data Security Analytics. We’ve added some sugar around the EMR API to help you start running packet captures through our Packetpig User Defined Functions (UDFs) as easily as possible. Let’s start with a […]
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Trojan.Prinimalka is a banking trojan associated with an attack campaign that received quite a bit of press in October 2012. “Project Blitzkrieg” is “a new cybecriminal [sic] project aimed at recruiting 100 botmasters to help launch a series of lucrative online heists targeting 30 U.S. […]
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Its been very busy couple of weeks at Packetloop leading up to our presentation last weekend at Ruxcon. A lot of work has happened to finalise the commercial release of Packetloop, as we continue to work with our Early Access users, understanding and incorporating […]
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In a little over a decade, DDoS attacks have broken the 100 Gbps barrier, up 1000%. Watch this video to see the evolution of DDoS attacks — from nuisance to menace
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Yesterday I was in Melbourne presenting “Finding Needles in Haystacks (the size of countries)” at Ruxcon. If you are looking for the latest version of the slides they are here – [PDF] [Slideshare]. It was an awesome conference with high quality presentations. Special thanks to Chris […]
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Recently I connected with Russell Jurney @rjurney on Twitter after he posted a couple of tweets related to Packetpig. Russell works for Hortonworks a Big Data Platform company founded by Alan Gates one of the developers of Pig and author of Programming Pig. I had been […]
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Today, Arbor Networks proudly releases Pravail Network Security Intelligence (NSI) to the public. Pravail NSI provides cost-effective, enterprise-wide visibility into the network as well as insight into applications, content and users in order to better secure the network. Rather than providing visibility and intelligence only […]
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