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Social Stats with Jupyter Notebook 2 - Simple Data Visualization

Social Stats with Jupyter Notebook 2 - Simple Data Visualization

It has been a hell of a week, from three late/all-nighters in a row working on everything from malware command-and-control servers to big data projects and right wing extremism research. Juggling a million hot pans over the fire left fairly little time to work on my Jupyter Notebook to

Stats Tracking with Jupyter Notebooks

Stats Tracking with Jupyter Notebooks

I personally believe that personal metrics are phenomenally important for anyone who has heavy ambitions and long-term goals. I made some lofty goals for myself in the form of New Years Resolutions and such, and I knew from the beginning that I'd have to relentlessly track progress in order to

The Online Ecosystem of the Far Right

I've been researching right wing extremism for the better part of the last 3-5 years. I've written web scrapers to monitor online social media sites, written thousands of words of mostly unpublished analysis of right wing extremist tactics, groups and associations and historical events. Much of this research has concerned

Failing the One Week SaaS Challenge

Failing the One Week SaaS Challenge

Phew, this one’s going to be a long one, so I’m going to post a TL;DR for those of you without the time that I have to write this. TL;DR Failure is often a forced conscripted binary that we place on ourselves or our situations to

I'm going to build and launch a SaaS app in one week

I'm going to build and launch a SaaS app in one week

I'm unreasonably excited about this. I was working on some stuff with Malparse, my cyber security SaaS app, and I had this overwhelming feeling in my gut... I've never launched anything before. I've done some very minor entrepreneurial ventures before, things like this blog, a failed newsletter, a Udemy course

Using the Registry for Malware Command and Control

Using the Registry for Malware Command and Control

Welcome back to my mini-series on simple registry operations for malware development! If this is the first you're seeing of it, you can read the second article on writing to registry keys here on my blog, or here on Medium. -- Alright, so now we know how to create registry

Simple Registry Operations for Malware Development, Part 2 - RegSetKeyValue

Simple Registry Operations for Malware Development, Part 2 - RegSetKeyValue

Welcome back to my mini-series on simple registry operations for malware development! If this is the first you're seeing of it, you can read the first article on creating registry keys here on Medium -- Alright. So, in the last article, we talked about how to create registry keys using

Simple Registry Operations for Malware Development

Simple Registry Operations for Malware Development

The Windows registry is this weird amalgamation of structured data that is used for anything from tracking system usage statistics to storing user information and serving as a temporary data buffer to be read from and written to. The operating system also relies on the registry for tons of fairly

Why I Write Malware and You Should Too

Why I Write Malware and You Should Too

Yes, you read the headline right, no it's not really clickbait. If you're in information security, whether on the blue team or red or somewhere in between, I think you should give malware development a try. Here is why. Reverse-Reverse Engineering I started a series on my YouTube channel about