I came across these guys a month or so back when I was looking at topics for one of our shows, and I don’t remember whether I touched on them or not, but this project is definitely worth a second look. Their community seems small right now, but the idea behind what they’re doing seems like common sense to me, and I’m not aware of anyone else out there collecting packet captures from anyone who wants to upload one.
Obviously, be careful what you download, but if we can get some traffic their way and get people to upload both malicious and normal traffic captures to them, I think it will end up being an extremely useful resource for anyone who uses packet data for their job, such as writing snort signatures!
Their site is https://www.openpacket.org. Remember that this isn’t for uploading 10 gigs of traffic you captured off of your neighbor’s wifi, and don’t submit your own traffic that includes your paypal and online banking sessions either. :) Make sure you have permission if you’re going to be submitting a capture with information someone other than you generated.
As of today we know for certain that at least one of our crew will be at DEFCON 16. We’re trying to arrange to have some T-shirts and stickers available to hand out, and would very much appreciate any donations that you can send our way. A donation in any amount will result in an optional plug on our show for you (and your website if you have one). There will be goodies given out by us in any event, but who doesn’t want a cool T-shirt?
We’ve activated and populated the events calendar for the next month or so. It looks like a normal wordpress posts calendar but contains events instead. If you have any upcoming events related to the security world please let us know and we’ll add them!
Thanks to the guys over at Security Justice for providing this pictures to clarify what we’ve been talking about when it comes to poor security practices. Let your imagination reign free on this one… Check out their site and listen to their podcast as well since they have some really good information being discussed!
Episode 4 should be recorded Wed or Thurs, and pushed out by Sunday at the latest.
I’ve gotten a good bit of feedback on Ep 3, and I think from now on we’ll have to not be drunk when the show starts. Our language did get a little out of hand and since we don’t want anyone to get fired, we’re going to make sure there aren’t f-bombs and such every other minute. The explicit tag will remain as we aren’t going to bleep every single thing out, but what happened last time was definitely out of character for what we’re shooting for.
