Russ McRee

HolisticInfoSec™

When, in October and November's toolsmith posts, I redefined DFIR under the premise of Deeper Functionality for Investigators in R, I discovered a "tip of the iceberg" scenario. To that end, I'd like to revisit the concept with an additional discovery and opportunity. In reality, this is really a case ... Read More

Continuing where we left off in The HELK vs APTSimulator - Part 1, I will focus our attention on additional, useful HELK features to aid you in your threat hunting practice. HELK offers Apache Spark, GraphFrames, and Jupyter Notebooks as part of its lab offering. These capabilities scale well beyond ... Read More

Ladies and gentlemen, for our main attraction, I give you...The HELK vs APTSimulator, in a Death Battle! The late, great Randy "Macho Man" Savage said many things in his day, in his own special way, but "Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!" could be our toolsmith theme this ... Read More

First off, Happy New Year! I hope you have a productive and successful 2018. I thought I'd kick off the new year with another exploration of OSINT. In addition to my work as an information security leader and practitioner at Microsoft, I am privileged to serve in Washington's military as ... Read More

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data. ~Daniel Keys MoranHere we resume our discussion of DFIR Redefined: Deeper Functionality for Investigators with R as begun in Part 1.First, now that my presentation season has wrapped up, I've posted the related material on the Github ... Read More

“To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.” ~ Robert E. DavisI've been presenting DFIR Redefined: Deeper Functionality for Investigators with R across the country at various conference venues and thought it would helpful to provide details for readers.The basic premise?Incident responders and ... Read More

WINSpect recently hit the toolsmith radar screen via Twitter, and the author, Amine Mehdaoui, just posted an update a couple of days ago, so no time like the present to give you a walk-through. WINSpect is a Powershell-based Windows Security Auditing Toolbox. According to Amine's GitHub README, WINSpect "is part of ... Read More

I was reading an interesting Motherboard article, Legal Hacking Tools Can Be Useful for Journalists, Too, that includes reference to one of my all time OSINT favorites, Maltego. Joseph Cox's article also mentions Datasploit, a 2016 favorite for fellow tools aficionado, Toolswatch.org, see 2016 Top Security Tools as Voted by ToolsWatch.org ... Read More

As we celebrate Independence Day, I'm reminded that we honor what was, of course, an armed conflict. Today's realities, when we think about conflict, are quite different than the days of lining troops up across the field from each other, loading muskets, and flinging balls of lead into the fray.We ... Read More

It is my sincere hope that when I say OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), you say "Hell, yeah!" rather than "What's that?". This publication has been a longtime supporter, and so many brilliant contibutors and practitioners have lent to OWASP ZAPs growth, in addition to @psiinon's extraordinary project leadership. OWASP ... Read More