I’m lucky enough to get to go to FIRST 2015 in Berlin. I’ll be speaking on Tuesday afternoon, but one of the best things about conferences like this is being able to attend other sessions. I’ve never been to FIRST before, and this year looks jam packed. Here are the talks I’m most excited about and you’ll be likely to find me in. Monday June 15: Time Presentation Presenter Notes 11:00   Building instantly exploitable protection for yourself and your partners against targeted cyber threats using MISP Mr....

Update - April 2019: To be honest I don’t Atom anymore. I switched to Visual Studio Code in the middle of 2017 while writing TypeScript and Golang and haven’t looked back. During the time I’ve been at GitHub one of the coolest projects to come out has been Atom, GitHub’s own text editor. I’ve been using it since the day it got released internally at GitHub and I can say Atom is one of my 3 top used applications and an essential part of my work flow....

Getting away from the abstract to something a bit more distinctly DFIR we get to the (in)famous SANS Incident Response Process. The basis of SANS 504: Incident Response & Hacker Techniques this process attempts to codify the typical incident process into key steps. This is an essential process that helps form a cogent understanding of the incident process, but it’s limitations need to be just as well understood. SANS Incident Response Process Preparation: Getting ready for incident response, creating documentation, building tools, etc....

pbpaste & pbcopy give you direct access to the OSX clipboard from a shell and makes it easy to tie together data from GUI based apps with command line apps. pbpaste So say you use ⌘+c to copy something from a browser that you want to then feed through a command line tool like ./jq: $ pbpaste | jq ‘.’ pbpaste feeds the text from the clipboard to jq through standard in, which then allows jq to manipulate it as you see fit....

Impostor syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist even in face of information that indicates that the opposite is true. It is experienced internally as chronic self-doubt, and feelings of intellectual fraudulence. Imposter Syndrome ~ The CalTech Counseling Center There isn’t an easy way to start a post like this and there doesn’t need to be. Imposter Syndrome is something most people don’t know a lot about (I’d never heard the idea until I started working at GitHub) but it’s something everyone is intimately familiar with....