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 … [Read more...] about Amazon Hacked or False Accusation
Use Your Surveillance Cameras to Investigate Malware
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. … [Read more...] about Use Your Surveillance Cameras to Investigate Malware
Find IP Addresses in Seconds across Terabytes of NetFlow and IPFIX
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. … [Read more...] about Find IP Addresses in Seconds across Terabytes of NetFlow and IPFIX
Detecting iPhone Malware
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 … [Read more...] about Detecting iPhone Malware
Overview of DNS Protocol : Part 1 of 3
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 … [Read more...] about Overview of DNS Protocol : Part 1 of 3
A10 Networks IPFIX support
We are one of the first vendors to add A10 Networks IPFIX support. Apparently the AX Series hardware that includes support for dual stack lite also provides support for NetFlow v10 (IPFIX). If you want to try it out, it is available as of ACOS 2.6.6-P4. … [Read more...] about A10 Networks IPFIX support
Cisco ART Support
I set out today to write about Cisco ART metrics as I was having trouble understanding the difference between it and technologies such as AVC, MACE and Performance Monitoring as all of them can be exported using Flexible NetFlow. As I read different materials … [Read more...] about Cisco ART Support
Temperature Monitoring Software
The all-inclusive temperature monitoring software ideally goes beyond temperature readings. A temperature monitoring system should also monitor for several other environmental attributes including humidity, water, smoke and especially air flow among other … [Read more...] about Temperature Monitoring Software
Network Threat Detection with NetFlow
I’m excited to announce that the Alarms tab in our next version of our network threat detection solution will include index enhancements. Specifically, the “Threat Index” is a value placed on any host that our propriety threat detection algorithms mark as … [Read more...] about Network Threat Detection with NetFlow
IT Security Forensics: Network Behavior Analysis
Today, many IDS, IPS, and IT Security Forensics vendors purport that most threats are best combated using their Signature-based solutions. Well ‘best’ may be only a small … [Read more...] about IT Security Forensics: Network Behavior Analysis
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