2018-10-05 -  I had a week off recently, so for a bit of fun I embarked on my most ambitious and most complex Python project yet: to scientifically (kind of) predict the outcome of the 2018/19 Premier League season based on the results so far. Those who are particularly fond of buzzwords...

2018-09-14 -  The bulk of cyber security incidents are fairly simple, but sometimes you end up working with a whole network of hosts that are connected to each other in different ways. With this scenario in mind, I recently set out to explore the possibility of creating a Python script to automatically...

2018-08-24 -  A little while ago I wrote about grouping data by multiple fields in Splunk, which is a very useful function that produces hideous export files. I took some time to write a Python script to fix that and make the data a lot more useful for further analysis. For reference,...

2018-06-23 -  We all use passwords every day, but how exactly do they work? It would be easy to assume that the services we use all hold huge databases with our usernames and passwords side by side, but the reality is much more interesting – and, of course, much more secure. It’s...

2018-05-13 -  A while ago I wrote a post about using Python to parse tcpdump output for domains and URLs. Recently, I started to wonder if I could take that a step further. What if the DNS requests I saw could be checked against a blacklist in real time? And what if...

2018-04-29 -  The life of a SOC analyst – as is the case with many other jobs – can involve a lot of repetitive tasks, including the process of writing tens of similar emails each day. But what if this could be automated, saving time and reducing the potential for error? The...

2017-12-18 -  There’s a lot more to most websites than meets the eye these days, and I thought an interesting Python project to take on at the start of my Christmas break would be to uncover the extra requests hidden below the surface with some help from tcpdump. The challenge? Tcpdump’s output...

2017-11-30 -  After I managed to pull data from Twitter’s API using Python, I got thinking about what my next step would be. Then it hit me – I could draw data from external sources and find a nice extension to visualise it in some pretty graphs. Plotly is that extension. My...

2017-11-24 -  If you hadn’t already heard, I’ve been experimenting with some Python recently, trying to build on the foundation that I picked up at the SANS Cyber Retraining Academy. While I’d already had some success playing around with isolated little scripts, I decided it was time to start pulling data from...

2017-11-11 -  A lot has happened since April. In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t blogged about it, so I wanted to give an update. Also, I was tired of seeing Rick and Morty at the top of my website and needed to publish something new to push that down the homepage...