By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Mon 25 August 2014 | tags: book, bug, -- (permalink)

Russ McRee (@holisticinfosec) was kind enough to tell us about a bug in the book’s code if you decide to play with a more current version of AlienVault’s reputation.data file with the bad IPs data file provided with the book. The graph.cc function makes an errant ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Wed 02 July 2014 | tags: book, sale, -- (permalink)

If you’ve been holding off buying our book, now’s the time to act! Wiley has a special running on The Hacker News where you can save 50% off list (putting it at $25.00USD).

NOTE: This sale may be for only those folks outside the U.S. Unfortunately ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Tue 04 March 2014 | tags: book, -- (permalink)

(That glyph is “Celebration!”)

Jay & I just got word that Data-Driven Security is being translated into Simplified Chinese for distribution throughout Asian markets. The licensee is Beijing Huazhang Graphics & Information Co., Ltd. and we’ll actually be getting print copies of the translated text!

To the folks who found us ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Fri 21 February 2014 | tags: book, -- (permalink)

Shipping notices for the dead-tree version of the book have started to trickle out, so we’ve removed the static landing page that we’ve had up for the book and launched an actual book sub-site where we’ll be able to post errata and provide updates on sales, promotions ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Fri 07 February 2014 | tags: book, -- (permalink)

It seems I missed spamming that Data-Driven Security (the book) is also up on Apple’s iBooks Store. Consider yourself spammed! As an aside, it’s been really difficult figuring out a happy medium from supporting the publisher/promoting the book to actual, horrible spamming, so call me (@hrbrmstr) out ...

By Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs) and Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Fri 31 January 2014 | tags: book, -- (permalink)

It looks like we overlooked (yesterday) that Data-Driven Security (the book) is also available as a Nook book now (not pre-order).

And, to avoid another e-book shameless self-promotion post, it looks like you can also get it now for your Kobo Reader.

A huge “thank you” to everyone for their ...

By Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs) and Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Thu 30 January 2014 | tags: book, -- (permalink)

While Data-Driven Security (The Book) is still in pre-order on many retailers, you can sneak an advance copy of it by heading over to Google Books or Google Play. Despite Google “knowing all”, we can assure you that Jay is not “a journalist and food critic.” Remember, the official launch ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Sun 12 January 2014 | tags: book, blog, rstat, python, ipython, pandas, -- (permalink)

ClickSecurity has been doing a #spiffy job spreading the security data science love with there data hacking series. They’re using the Python data science stack and using iPython notebooks for their work and I felt compelled to reproduce at least one of ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr) and Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)
Wed 01 January 2014 | tags: book, blog, -- (permalink)

We have wrapped up the book and we are launching this website, blog and podcast to continue the discussion. But before we look forward, we thought it would be a good idea to look back at what we put into writing the book. Since we used github to manage our material, we have all the data github stores about our commits and the first thing we want to look at is the days and times of our checkins. Take a look…