Author: hrbrmstr
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'Sandy' Code Up On Github
I will (most likely) not be littering the blog with any more updates to the 'Sandy' code unless they are really significant. You can follow along at home to any changes over at github…
Watch Sandy in "R" (Including Forecast Cone)
This is a follow-up post to the quickly crafted Watch Sandy in "R" post last night. I noticed that Google provided the KML on their crisis map and wanted to show how easy it is to add it to previous…
Watch "Sandy" In R
While this will pale in comparison to the #spiffy Sandy graphics on Weather Underground and other sites (including Google's "Crisis Center" maps), I thought it might be interesting to show folks how they can keep an eye on "Sandy" using…
Extracting OSE Firewall Alert Data From IMAP (Gmail) Mail To CSV With Python
I played around with OSE Firewall for WordPress for a couple days to see if it was worth switching to from the plugin I was previously using. It's definitely not as full featured and I didn't see any WP database extensions where it kept a…
Get an R Data Frame from a MongoDB Query
There's a good FAQ on how to do the MongoDB query -> R data frame but I wanted to post a more complete example that included the database connection and query setup since I suspect there are folks new to Mongo who would appreciate the…
Putting Cybercrime [Infographics] Behind Bars
HP & the Ponemon Institute have released their third annual "Cost of Cybercrime" report and the web wizards at HP have given us an infographic from…
"Show in Finder" Broken? Here's One Potential Way To Fix It
I'm not entirely sure what happened to cause it, but the "Show in Finder…" feature of a plethora of OS X apps broke on me just over a month ago. I poked around a bit, deleted a preference file here or there and un-tweaked some tweaks to…
DIY ZeroAccess Analysis Lesson #1 : Treat GeoIP Results Lightly
We're still crunching through some of the ZeroAccess data and have some (hopefully) interesting results to present, but an weirld GeoIP anomaly has come up that I wanted to quickly…
DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Analysis : So What?
Did you know that – if you're a US citizen – you have approximately a 1 in 5 chance of getting the flu this year? If you're a male (no regional bias for this one), you have a 1 in 400 chance of developing Hodgkin's Disease and a 1 in 5,000…
DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Visualizations :: Back To The Basics
While shiny visualizations are all well-and-good, sometimes plain ol' charts & graphs can give you the data you're looking…