Generally speaking – you will commence an OSINT investigation for a person with some very basic details. These details will likely include their full name, year of birth, place last seen, and perhaps some other attributes or context around their… Read More ›
There is a relationship between Intelligence, Information and Data whereby the latter of which is often available from a number of sources, but may be interpreted as useless until it has been turned into something more useful.
Intelligence is the enrichment of data or information, its classification and publication by experts within a field. The resultant output is ordinarily a qualitative assessment backed by quantitative metrics, or absolutes which formed part of the data or information it… Read More ›
Over the last few months I have been working away on several work tasks which have had me hunting for threats within an immensely complex environment. Part of this hunt has involved the analysis and selection of threat feeds for… Read More ›
I have posted before on participating in other TraceLabs events (such as the Australian Federal Police Missing Persons Hackathon), so here goes a brief recounting of my experiences with a US missing persons event.
Sometime ago I participated in an event run by TraceLabs in conjunction with the Australian Federal Police to locate pieces of information for missing persons across Australia. The twist on this event being it was gamified to allow competing teams… Read More ›
I have been an off and on user of TheHive for nearly a year now, and it is encouraging to see the development and release of TheHive4 (even if in pre-release). In this post I will walk through the deployment,… Read More ›
As part of my final Masters degree research component I have been collecting data from honeypots which I have seeded around the globe. The objective being to distil this data in to organisational threat data based on a fictitious business…. Read More ›
It seems to be a significant buzzword nowadays, but Threat Intelligence is available in an abundance from a wide range of curators and commercial suppliers. So what does it take to correlate observables such as precursors to determine if they… Read More ›
So whilst playing through an element of Kringlecon 2019 I came across a task which didn’t really suit my Christmas challenge of going to Linux full-time. One such challenge involved a Windows Event Log file with no ready access to… Read More ›
