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Announcing CelesTLSH CLI: A Lightweight Tool for TLSH Hash Analysis

I'm excited to announce the release of CelesTLSH CLI, a lightweight CLI interface tool for calculating, comparing, and analyzing TLSH hashes. This tool is designed to help security professionals quickly identify potentially malicious files by comparing them against a database of known attack tools.

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NSM

Falling in love with NSM again

When I started in cybersecurity, most web traffic wasn’t encrypted, which meant Firewalls and Network Intrusion Detection Systems played a critical role in detecting malicious activity. Endpoint visibility was limited—most organizations still relied on traditional Anti-Virus

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DetectionAsCode

A Five Year Retrospective on Detection as Code

Five years ago, I co-authored the first public paper on the concept of Detection as Code. While having some technical peers review this paper, we found that a few more advanced security programs were already utilizing this sort of method, just not publicly talking about it.

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ATT&CK

Detecting RegreSSHion - CVE-2024-6387 a Guide

Recently, the killer vulnerability research team at Qualys discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in OpenSSH that exploits a race condition within SSH. This vulnerability is particularly concerning because SSH is commonly exposed to the internet for remote system management.

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Detection

Operationalizing TLSH Fuzzy Hashing

If you work in cybersecurity or tech, you’re likely familiar with hashing. A cryptographic hash function generates a fixed-size hash value from any given input data. This is a one-way process, making it computationally infeasible to reverse-engineer the original data from the hash value.

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General

The Analyst vs The Engineer

A common trope among cybersecurity practitioners is gatekeeping entry-level positions like junior Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts with statements like, "How are you supposed to secure something if you've never managed it?" This is a concept that I **highly** disagree with.

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