My name is Jude, I’m a Security Analyst working with a Security Operations Center (SOC) team based in Australia. Outside of the usual SOC tasks (alert management, detection use cases), I work on specialist engagements around analyzing and understanding the external attack surface of companies using OSINT investigation and Dark Web Monitoring. One of the […]

Before busting out your arsenal of tools to rip a website apart, it can be really useful to just go back to basics and start by simply making a request to the website and analyzing its response. This applies to beginners as well; before learning all of the different tools and commands it’s important to […]

Arguably the biggest SpiderFoot release in years, SpiderFoot 4.0 introduces the concept of writing your own correlation rules in YAML, plus integration with a number of open source security tools. Correlations SpiderFoot’s goal is to automate OSINT collection and analysis to the greatest extent possible. Since its inception, SpiderFoot has heavily focused on automating OSINT […]

Python is a pretty common choice for a lot of security specialists developing tooling due to its elegant syntax and a huge library of handy modules, packages, and libraries. Its interpreted nature means it’s flexible, has dynamic typing, easy to debug, and cross-platform. It’s arguably pretty easy to pick up as well, meaning it’s more […]