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What Is Splunk – A Deep Dive

What Is Splunk – A Deep Dive

Splunk is not a tool, it is a platform on which tools are built. When is Splunk is implemented correctly it completely changes the business processes in place. If day to day activities are not changed after Splunk is in place then it was a failure. One of the many...
Avoiding Phishing Emails

Avoiding Phishing Emails

I read this morning that Taos Public Schools were hit with a widespread ransomware attack that crippled their network. I do not know how the attack was executed or spread but often these attacks are done via phishing emails or embedded malicious code in benign...
How DNS Tunneling Can Be Abused

How DNS Tunneling Can Be Abused

I stumbled on this excellent technical explanation of a relatively old data exfil method, using DNS tunneling. Many of us who have been enthusiasts of subverting systems going back to the 1980s have probably read ways to use exploit DNS to access the internet on...