My first foray into the tag soup that is XSL and XSLT has been to turn the XML outputs from the InterNet Barometer System as discussed previously into plain text output which I can use more easily for comparing with some of my other data sources. While A cursory browse cannot find any Terms & [...]
Converting Internet Barometer Data
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Applications · Networking · Security · tools
Internet Attack Barometer
June 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Security · Systems Administration · Vizualization
Security Tools update
February 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Over the last week or so a number of new tools have been release either for the first time or as updated versions: tcpreplay is now at version 3.4.0 with a number of significant bugfixes. This staple of packet analysis allows for the replay of captured pcap file back over network interfaces. Its a great [...]
Tags: tools
Applied Security Visualization released
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments
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) [...]
Tags: Applications · Books · Security · Vizualization
Defcon16 Toolsets
August 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments
With the 16th incarnation of Defcon having come and gone last week, a number of people have put together a nice list of the various tools released. The ZDnet’s Rob Fuller has done all the hard work of tracking down the various tools and their websites in his article - entitled “ DEFCON 16: List [...]
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DAVIX live CD looking for Beta Testers
June 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Applications · Security · Vizualization


