Jamie Lee, Author at Plixer

Amazon Hacked or False Accusation

Given the size of Amazon’s customer base, it is probably one of the largest Internet sites targeted by hackers. As of 2014, the company claimed to have over 244 million customers two years later, we can only guess that it has probably stretched to over 300 million.

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Use Your Surveillance Cameras to Investigate Malware

03.10.16 - Jamie Lee

If you suspect a malware breach and want to investigate the history of a specific host, how do you do it? For most of us, the turn-to technology when needing to forensically investigate nearly any type of network related traffic pattern is NetFlow or IPFIX. All major routers on the market today support one or both of these flow protocols.

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Find IP Addresses in Seconds across Terabytes of NetFlow and IPFIX

01.01.16 - Jamie Lee

Do you need to search for a single IP address across trillions of flows? The ideal system for enterprise NetFlow collection should allow you to simply type in an IP address and within 2-3 seconds, it should serve up the results being sought after.

Security Operations

Detecting iPhone Malware

09.22.15 - Jamie Lee

Is your company detecting iPhone malware that is brought into the internal network? At least 39 iPhone apps found on the Apple Apps Store were infected by XcodeGhost. These applications apparently made it past Apples code review process and impacted hundreds of millions of iOS users!

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Overview of DNS Protocol : Part 1 of 3

05.13.15 - Jamie Lee

If you have ever wondered how the DNS works, this post was put together by three of us plixer dudes who wanted a DNS process overview as well as insight into many of the acronyms that accompany this protocol. Lets say for example you point your browser to www.example.com, what happens from your computer? This Overview of DNS Protocol will answer that question.