After you celebrate New Year’s Eve, it is time to get to work on those New Year’s resolutions! It is also a good time to reflect, prepare for new challenges, and brush up on security threats to watch out for. In 2019, we expect new technologies and channels to open up additional threat vectors for …
I was recently speaking with a customer about network security when he brought up a nasty botnet called the DressCode Trojan. Having never heard of this, he explained to me that it was a trojan that had made it’s way on to the Google Play app store. After doing some research of my own, I found …
Syslogd is often used to turn machine messages or syslogs into events for further processing. Ultimately, alarms are generated which can trigger some type of notification. The problem with the messages created by syslogd, is their nonstandard and loosely structured data format. This post is about the end of Syslog and the evolution of IPFIX …