Poland orders more coastal defense systems

Norway-based international technology company Kongsberg has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide its NSM (Naval Strike Missile) Coastal Defence System (CDS) to Poland. Kongsberg said in a release that the company has been awarded a …

September 20, 2023
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Key Network Questions

 I wrote this on 7 December 2018 but never published it until today. The following are the “key network questions” which “would answer many key questions about [a] network, without having to access a third party log repository. This data is derive…

June 25, 2023
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The Humble Hub

 Over the weekend I organized some old computing equipment. I found this beauty in one of my boxes. It’s a Netgear EN104TP hub. I’ve mentioned this device before, in this blog and my books. This sort of device was the last of the true hubs. In an …

August 10, 2022
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Zeek in Action Videos

This is a quick note to point blog readers to my Zeek in Action YouTube video series for the Zeek network security monitoring project. Each video addresses a topic that I think might be of interest to people trying to understand their network usin…

July 29, 2021
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Toolsmith – GSE Edition: Scapy vs CozyDuke

In continuation of observations from my GIAC Security Expert re-certification process, I’ll focus here on a GCIA-centric topic: Scapy. Scapy is essential to the packet analyst skill set on so many levels. For your convenience, the Packetrix VM comes pr…

November 27, 2016
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