Math Matters in Cybersecurity: How Statistical Analysis and Anomaly Detection Help Protect Networks and Data

Cybersecurity is a technical field that requires strong quantitative skills. Math is an important tool in cybersecurity, as it is used to create and maintain secure networks, protect data from attacks, and identify and prevent intrusions. Math also helps cybersecurity professionals to solve complex problems and keep networks and data secure

Threat Hunting: A Proactive Approach to Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a constantly evolving field that requires defenders to keep up with the latest threats and techniques of attackers. Traditional security tools, such as firewalls, antivirus, and intrusion detection systems, are often reactive and rely on signatures or rules to detect known threats. However, these tools may not be enough to stop advanced persistent threats (APTs) that can evade detection and remain hidden in a network for months or even years.

How to Get Started with Network Forensics: A Practical Guide

Network forensics is the science and art of investigating and analyzing network traffic data to discover and recover evidence of cyberattacks. It is a vital skill for anyone who wants to protect their network from hackers, malware, or data breaches. In this article, you will learn the basics of network forensics, such as what it is, why it is important, and how it works. You will also learn about the tools and techniques that network forensics experts use to capture, record, and analyze network packets. By the end of this article, you will have a solid foundation of network forensics knowledge and skills that you can apply to your own network or career. Let’s get started!

Information Security Training

Here is some training information for the cyber security analyst may need to know to be effective at monitoring the network of an organization. This is just a stripped down and formatted a little different than some of the other articles that I have written before. Lot of the resources will be the same.

Splunk Extreme Search - xsCreateDDContext & xsWhere

Splunk has the ability to do some very impressive searches to help with statistical analysis. Some of those functions are not very well documented by Splunk's own internal documentation. I am going to go over a few commands and how they can be used.

Ethical Hacking Bookmarks

Since Null byte group had a user get their wonderful post down and things really don't disappear from the internet after they been up here is their bookmark post of wonderful links for ethical

Protecting your Android device and your Privacy

Its been a while since I have written about how to protect your self from the prying eyes of government. So if your trying to protect your self against the NSA, GCHQ, or who ever here are some things that you can do to help protect yourself.

Information Security (InfoSec) Software, Books, and Resources

Security training and resources. I am creating this post mostly to help myself keep track of all the different infosec resources, applications, and study material for exams like Comptia Security+, CEH, CISSP, OSCP, and others. This is a resource for offensive security practices and tools. This list will be updated as time goes on.

Penetration Test Information Gathering

After taking many classes on Advanced penetration testings i find that many of these classes are very basic when it comes to their subjects. So here are some resources to better round off your penetration testing in more depth than just the basics that most of these "Advanced" classes go through.

Remedy 7.x, 8.x and possibly 9.x login password decoder

So recently I have been doing some QA for a BMC Remedy product that my work is starting to work with. One thing i noticed right away is that the cipher that they use is extremely bad and basically plain text.

College not required: A guide to starting in InfoSec

So recently I had someone tell a community member that you needed to go to school like everyone else and pay to learn infosec. For some reason this bugged me because I really only see college degree as a rubber stamp for HR I would like to tell you that is a lie and here is why.

Nethunter 2 metasploit Database [*] postgresql selected, no connection.

Nethunter 2 getting posgresql working with metasploit. If your in metasploit and are checking the status of db_status and are getting error that [*] postgresql selected, no connection.

How a Cracker breaks wifi and more details, WEP,WPA,WPA2,WPS and more

Attacking wifi tools and how attacks work.
Wifi types are open, wep, wpa1, WPA2, wpa2 enterprise. There are also services on wifi to help people connect for the first time easier.  This service is called wps.  WPS is either active or passive. So here are the bellow

Updated oclhashcat benchmark with opengl 7970

A few years ago I benched marked the amd 7970 Ghz GPU with the oclhashcat-plus software. so here is an updated results. 

Armitage and Metasploit Java Exploit on Windows xp sp3

So just started to take up learning how metasploit works and also started using Armitage. So here is a short video of how to exploit and gain access to windows xp sp3.

Android Virus

Android along with every other operating system has viruses. recently defcon 2013 a researcher discovered that they can modify the android APK and still keep the signature of the package to make it look authentic.

Setting up Security Camera with Webcam on Ubuntu

Ever wonder what to do with your old webcams in your house. I mean you don't use them anymore right? You have a smartphone for that now.  Well how about turning them into a surveillance system?

Network security auditing - Subterfuge

For a long time there has been problems with security flaws in consumer grade routers for middle man attacks.  

Protect Your Data from NSA

Recently  there has been a lot of news about how the NSA has been spying on everyone in america and also those from outside america. This was granted to them in the power of the patriot act. So how do you protect your self.

Pyrit benchmark on new computer build

As I recently build a new desktop as you can find the specs of here. Though now we can see some of the benchmarks with this computer build.