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My Picks From #PyCon2013
A huge thanks to the speakers and conference organizers for making these resources freely available, especially to those of us who were not able to attend the…
Retrieve IP ASN & BGP Peer Info With R
This is part of a larger project I'm working on, but it's useful enough to share (github version coming…
SHODAN API in R (With Examples)
Folks may debate the merits of the SHODAN tool, but in my opinion it's a valuable resource, especially if used for "good". What is SHODAN? I think ThreatPost summed it up nicely…
Easier HTML Table-scraping For Scripts With Google Drive
We had our first, real, snowfall of the season in Maine today and that usually means school delays/closings. Our "local" station – @WCHS6 – has a Storm Center Closings page as well as an SMS notification service. I decided this morning…
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…
Slopegraphs in Python – Failed States Index (Part 1)
The Fund For Peace (FFP) and Foreign Policy jointly released the 2012 version of the "failed states index" (FSI). From the FFP site, the…
Slopegraphs in Python – Gratuitous Raphaël Animations
So, I had to alter this to start after a user interaction. It loaded fine as a static, local page but seems to get a bit wonky embedded in a complex page. I also see some artifacts in Chrome but not in Safari. Still, not a bad foray into…
Slopegraphs in Python – Formatting Tweaks
There were enough eye-catching glitches in the experimental javascript support and the ugly large-number display in the spam example post that I felt compelled to make a couple formatting tweaks in the code. I also didn't have time to do…
Slopegraphs in Python – Experimental Raphaël Support
In preparation for the upcoming 1.0 release and with the hopes of laying a foundation for more interactive slopegraphs, I threw together some rudimentary output support over lunch today for Raphaël , which means that all you have to do is…
Slopegraphs in Python – Log Scales & Spam Data Analysis
Given the focus on actual development of the PySlopegraph tool in most of the blog posts of late, folks may be wondering why an infosec/inforisk guy is obsessing so much on a tool and not talking security. Besides the fixation on filling a…