Static in the Ether

Interoute has launched a new online Internet Barometer detailing attacks as observed from their 22 monitoring stations across the European portion of the Internet. The site provides rich graph and chart interfaces, which are nicely interactive.  There are definatley some ideas I want to incorporate form this into my own Network Telescope management console.  It [...]

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Version 0.3 of PicViz has been released, based on python and QT – which bodes well for potential portability. This is yet another tool to help one actually filter through piles of connections, using a classic parallel axis setup.  Drilldown is offered. Some example renderings of  the Kaminsky DNS attacks are available. A more advanced [...]

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I probably should have posted this a while back but, its still worth noting that Raffael Marty’s Applied Security Visualization has been released, and includes a copy of the DAVIX CD as distributed at Defcon 16 (davix-1.0.1-defcon16.iso.gz – also obtainable from the homepage, includes a couple of packet traces as used in the Defcon workshop) [...]

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The Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec 2007) are finally available. Springer Has the book available for order at a princely 60 Euros. Amazon has the book listed but not yet available for shipping , but one can pre-order. For those interested, Springer has a flyer and table of contents [...]

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DAVIX is the upcoming live CD for data analysis and visualization, which will be released at Blackhat/DEFCON in Las Vegas this summer, with another talk at VizSec 2008. From the VizSec.org announcement: Jan Monsch and Raffael Marty and have prepared the second beta version of DAVIX. And are now seeking for beta testers that have [...]

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Wired has a article on the Artwork done by MIT Media Lab’s grad student Alex Dragulescu. Working under contract to MessageLabs he has produced a number number of pictures, showing images of Mydoom, Ghost Keylogger and other bits of Malware. While all quite pretty there seems to be no detail of how they were created [...]

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With Nick now in Grahamstown, development on the Hilbert Curve application has progressed well. Version 4.05 has been released around a month after the 2.05 edition previously mentioned, which is heading much closer towards completion. The unix build scripts still need to be integrated, but there has been much improvement. The most noticeable improvements are [...]

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The Hilbert Curve Rework project is progressing well with version 2.05 having been released, by Nick earlier this week. Ive now taken the opportunity to port the current Windows code across to unix and particularly FreeBSD. Around 10 lines worth of changes later the app built and ran on my FreeBSD 7.0 system. For once [...]

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Taking some data gathered form various filters I’m investigating for the local schools network,a nd combining with some custom scraping tools which Blake has been assisting with Ive drawn a map of the location of some 15 000 IP addresses representing the seedy side of the Internet. The image is rendered using the Hilbert Curve [...]

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