Author: hrbrmstr
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More DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Fun : jQuery/D3 Choropleths
In the spirit of the previous example this one shows you how to do a quick, country-based choropleth in D3/jQuery with some help from the command-line since not everyone is equipped to kick out some R and most folks I know are very handy…
DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Plots
Since F-Secure was #spiffy enough to provide us with GeoIP data for mapping the scope of the ZeroAccess botnet, I thought that some aspiring infosec data scientists might want to see how to use something besides Google Maps & Google Earth…
Show Mac App Store Downloads Folder (and more!)
@mroesch asked how to find the "Downloads" folder for the Mac App Store. Apple changed this from the time I posted the one and only app I ever did to MAS (a while ago). So, here's how to do it…
Businessweek's #Spiffy Rank-order Stock Market Slopegraph
Businessweek's bleeding-edge approach to typography, layout and overall design is one of the features that keeps me reading the magazine in print form. The design team also often delves into experiments with data visualization and…
Building Jytter On OS X (tested on Mountain Lion)
Dan Kaminski (@dakami) tweeted a cool, small (11 instruction) TRNG generator called Jytter…
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Make A Slopegraph
Thanks to a nice call-out post link on Flowing Data in my RSS feeds this morning, I found Naomi Robbins' Effective Graphs Forbes blog, perused the archives a bit and came across her post on arrow charts…
VERIS Community :: JSON vs XML
You may not be aware of the fact that the #spiffy Verizon Biz folk have some VERIS open source components, one of which is the XML schema for the "Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident…
"Fibonacci" Graphing
Benchmarking/profiling is one of the fundamental practices for tech folk and Feng Shen's recent post to Hacker News continues this fine tradition with a look at startup & run times for " fibonacci(40) " in seven computer languages (two 'C'…
SSH Password Time-series Heatmap In D3
In @jayjacobs' latest post on SSH honeypot passsword analysis he shows some spiffy visualizations from crunching the data with Tableau. While I've joked with him and called them "robocharts", the reality is that Tableau does let you work…
Security & Privacy Of Mountain Lion's Dictation Feature
With Gizmodo doing a post hyping Mountain Lion's new dictation feature it's probably a good time to note that folks in regulated environments or who just care about security & privacy a bit more than others should not enable or use this…