Linux

Traffic Generators

These tools will generate traffic and transmit it, retransmit traffic from a capture file, perhaps with changes, or permit you to edit traffic in a capture file and retransmit it. • Bit-Twist includes bittwist, to retransmit traffic from a capture file, and bittwiste, to edit a capture file and write

WMI on Linux

WMI is a great way to query Windows systems without being so intrusive. As of late, I have been dealing with it more and more. Typically, I use a Windows system to query another Windows system but the lack of speed inherit to the Windows OS always has me searching

Splunk vs. ELK Stack

When conversing about log collection and correlation on an Enterprise level, Splunk usually always comes up in the conversation. While I am an avid Splunk fan, outside of the free version, it can be a little expensive. ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) is very comparable to Splunk, in my opinion.

Collaboration with Elog

Elog is a great program used for collaboration in a LAN or WAN environment. Its very simple to use and easily customizable. This program is ideal for sharing notes or analyzing data and ensuring everyone else knows what is going on. There is an email function as well and the

Parsing Metadata with ExifTool

Its one thing to have a piece of data but its another thing to be able to get the metadata about said data. ExifTool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) is a tool that will allow just that. Its command line based but there is a GUI version as well called pyExifTool (https://hvdwolf.github.io/pyExifToolGUI/). The tool