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"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…
Honeypot Analytics : 500 Pretty Passwords
I had a few moments this past weekend to play with an idea for visualizing the passwords used against the honeypot @jayjacobs set up. While it's not as informative as Jay's weekend…
Beach Blanket Tweetup<br/>(a.k.a. GraniteSec Tweetup #5)
Now, polish up your cruiser and get ready 'cuz @GraniteSec is heading back to Fort Foster [ info ] [ map ] at Kittery Point, Maine for it's fifth family & friends…
2012 WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report Redux
The always #spiffy @WhiteHatSec released their 2011 Web Site Security stats report [ direct link (PDF)] last week (here's one of their teaser…
RIM of Destruction
The mobile world, it is explodin' executives flarin', app updates loadin' you're Bold's enough to sell but no one's buyin' no one believes in your PlayBook, but that's what your totin' and even the Curve won't keep you a floatin' but you…
Honeypot Analytics
For this post (and probably a few subsequent ones), I'm taking the role of 'Pinky" to @jayjacobs' 'Brain' as I share some of my own analysis on the ssh honeypot passwords that Jay collected (you'll need to read his VZB post before…
Breach Reach : Google Insights
We have a burst that – if one is generous – captures interest for about a week. Even more interesting is that it seems said interest was limited to very specific geographic…
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…