By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Thu 20 February 2014 | tags: data analysis, twitter, data visualization, datavis, passwords, -- (permalink)

The topic of “dump monitoring”—i.e. looking for lists of stolen/hacked credentials or notices of targted hacking—came up on the securitymetrics.org mailing list recently and that seemed like a good opportunity for a quick post on how to use Twitter as a data source and how ...


By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Tue 04 February 2014 | tags: R, passwords, -- (permalink)

The pipal utility is one of the standard, “go-to” tools when analyzing cracked password dumps. It’s a command-line program written in Ruby and I thought it would be interesting to port the base functionality to R and then build upon that base over time (R has some really handy ...