Taking Back Your Privacy – from ZoomInfo
By Tony LeeNote: I am not a lawyer, there are probably no laws broken here, and I am sure many will say that this is how the sales industry works. However I disagree with the way our data is being...
View ArticleVirusTotal Lookups in Microsoft Power BI - Processing JSON
By Tony LeeSo we are on this Power BI binge... and figured a VirusTotal lookup report and dashboard would be useful as a stand alone tool as well as a drill through fed by other reports. Presented...
View ArticleFun with Microsoft Power BI - Part IV - Improving Workflow
By Tony LeeWelcome to part IV in this series of going from zero to hero using Power BI to ingest, process, and make amazing reports. If you have read some of our other articles you can probably tell...
View ArticleFun with Microsoft Power BI - Part III - Advanced Ingest and Viewing
By Tony LeeWelcome to part III in this series of going from zero to hero using Power BI to ingest, process, and make amazing reports. If you have read some of our other articles you can probably tell...
View ArticleFun with Microsoft Power BI - Part II - Reporting
By Tony LeeWelcome to part II in this series of going from zero to hero using Power BI to ingest, process, and make amazing reports. If you have read some of our other articles you can probably tell...
View ArticleFun with Microsoft Power BI - Part I - Intro
By Tony LeeIf you have read some of our other articles you can probably tell by now that we enjoy making dataactionable. Honestly, it doesn't matter what type of data or even where the data ends up....
View ArticleTesting Logstash Data Ingest
By Tony LeeWhen setting up an Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK) stack, you may discover the need to test your Logstash filters. There are probably many ways to accomplish this task, but we will...
View ArticleFun with AWS CLI - Cost Explorer (ce) API
By Tony LeeIf you are an avid Amazon Web Services (AWS) consumer and have been thinking about ways to integrate these services into third party-tools (such as CyBot - https://github.com/cylance/CyBot),...
View ArticleEasy Cord Cutting Guide - Zero to Hero
By Tony LeeIn my house, we don't watch a lot of traditional cable TV, so we ditched cable years ago and instead increased our Internet bandwidth so we could stream more content such as Amazon Prime,...
View ArticleBattle Covid-19 Using 3D Printing
By Tony LeeThis is a bit of a different topic than we usually cover on this blog, but it is difficult to ignore the current situation regarding the Coronavirus. That said, many of my friends and family...
View ArticleAdvanced Ticketing Analytics Using Your SIEM
By Tony LeeThe Problem with Ticketing SystemsRegardless of the vendor, ticketing systems are a double-edged sword. At the extremes they have immense power and utility when used correctly, but they can...
View ArticleDetecting DNS Tunneling Using Subdomain Frequency Analysis
By Tony LeeFor those that may not be familiar, DNS tunneling is the process of embedding data inside DNS requests and responses. It is typically used by a threat actor as a last resort command and...
View ArticleMaking Splunk Dashboards Available Outside of Splunk
By Tony LeeHave you ever built a beautiful Splunk dashboard that was not only aesthetically pleasing, but also incredibly insightful? If so, maybe others learned of its value and now want that data...
View ArticleBuilding a DirtyNet - The Ultimate Malware Playground
By Tony LeeDo you have a safe place to handle and investigate potential malware? Maybe you are you doing this on your home PC or in a VM to try to protect the rest of your network? Whether you have a...
View ArticleSyslog Over TLS Data Feed Splitting via syslog-ng
By Tony LeeThere are times where you may only be able to send data to a single syslog receiver, but all is not lost. Fortunately, many syslog receivers can handle splitting the feed. In this article we...
View ArticleTroubleshooting CyBot on Microsoft Teams
By Tony LeeThis is a follow-on article to hopefully help address any questions or errors that you may encounter while following our previous article...
View ArticleCyBot on Microsoft Teams
By Tony LeeDoes your organization have a threat intel chatbot to do your bidding? If not, you should give CyBot (https://github.com/cylance/CyBot) a try. It is designed not only for threat intel...
View ArticleWyze Cameras - Keeping Honest Vendors Honest - Part II – Test Results
By Tony LeeQuick Recap from part I in the series:It can be difficult for a security nerd to inherently trust cloud vendors and products that do not keep all data on-premises—especially when it comes to...
View ArticleWyze Cameras - Keeping Honest Vendors Honest - Part I - Setup
By Tony LeeBackground:It can be difficult for a security nerd to inherently trust cloud vendors and products that do not keep all data on-premises—especially when it comes to home security/automation...
View ArticleCreating Network Device CLI Visibility in Splunk
By Tony LeeCreating visibility is not always a popular topic--especially when that visibility can be used to hold folks accountable. But if you have ever had a network outage due to an incorrect...
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