Hot on the heels of the previous CyberDefenders Challenge Solution comes this noisy installment which solves their Acoustic challenge. You can find the source Rmd on GitHub, but I’m also testing the limits of WP’s markdown rendering and putting it in-stream as well. No longer book expository this time since much of the setup/explanatory bits… Continue reading
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Packet Maze: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP Puzzle with R, Zeek, and tshark
It was a rainy weekend in southern Maine and I really didn’t feel like doing chores, so I was skimming through RSS feeds and noticed a link to a PacketMaze challenge in the latest This Week In 4n6. Since it’s also been a while since I’ve done any serious content delivery (on the personal side,… Continue reading
Reading PCAP Files with Apache Drill and the sergeant R Package
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Apache Drill. One big strength of the platform is that it normalizes the access to diverse data sources down to ANSI SQL calls, which means that I can pull data from parquet, Hie, HBase, Kudu, CSV, JSON, MongoDB and MariaDB with the same SQL syntax. This also… Continue reading