Network Excavation: Going Beyond What Your Existing Tools Can Tell You
The Netography Threat Research Team was formed with automation, proactive research, and machine learning in mind. The team is constantly questioning how they can develop new detections and proactively defend customers without having to dedicate hundreds of people and hours to each individual threat. The post Network Excavation: Going Beyond ... Read More
Threat detection with network metadata vs. DPI
Traditional DPI-based network threat detection appliances will have a role to play in your technology stack for a while. But there’s no doubt their usefulness is diminishing. The post Threat detection with network metadata vs. DPI appeared first on Netography ... Read More

Evernote, Omnifocus, and my productivity
Over the past several years my job here at Cisco Talos has changed drastically. I took on new roles, which is awesome and exciting, but in the process while trying to organize and create process and clarity for my team and those that work with my team, I lost my ... Read More

Is Evernote going away?
Evidently we don't know if Evernote is sticking around, since there seems to be some panic on the internet about it today.https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/09/05/evernote-might-be-in-trouble-so-heres-how-to-get-your-notes-out-of-it-completely-and-safelyIt is really easy to move your notes out of Evernote and into Notes.app on the Mac. (Click the above link for the easy instructions. However, if you use ... Read More

I just had the best travel experience ever
Left my office at 4:30 for a 5:15 flight. I know what you are thinking, you are crazy...You're right. Normally would never do this, but was running behind with stuff today. Drove from my office in Columbia, MD to BWI. Parked the car, no problem. Walked to security (already checked in on ... Read More

My iPhone did something useful today, and I didn’t even ask it to
Happened to swipe down from the top this morning (Notifications screen) and I noticed that my iPhone told me that it would take about 34 minutes to get to Newark from where I was. Now, I've noticed this before, always when I was on the way to work or something where ... Read More

Mountain Lion: How to get the most out of iMessage
So, now that Mountain Lion has been released for everyone I thought I'd write a quick blog post on how to get the most out of iMessages (now called Messages) on your iOS device and your Desktop.If you are an Apple Ecosystem person (iOS + OSX) you'll love it. Messages ... Read More
Apple Hardens Security with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Safari 5.1.7
TidBITS Safe Computing: Apple Hardens Security with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Safari 5.1.7:What a fantastic idea.From the article:Safari will now check the version of Flash you are running and disable it if it is not capable of updating itself to a current version. Flash versions 10.1.102.64 (yes, that’s a ... Read More