Experiment Demonstrates the Power of Simple Network Intercepts
A new experiment by Ars Technica and NPR shows effectiveness of intercepting Internet activity off the wire.
09Jun
Protecting Against Malware and a New Breed of Hacker
Firewalls and anti-malware tools have become ineffective against the new breed of attackers. In this episode of The Ntrepid Podcast I talk about how virtualization can be leveraged to defend against highly targeted attacks and even zero day exploits.
03Jun
Inside the Minds of Tech CIOs
We had the pleasure of speaking at Artis Ventures Enterprise Disrupt 2014 Conference in San Francisco last week to an impressive audience of tech industry visionaries, entrepreneurs, CTOs and CIOs. We introduced our Passages secure browser and shared our insights on enterprise cyber security.
02Jun
Browser Fingerprints and Scraping
https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid-Podcast-5-Browser-Fingerprints-Scraping.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast, Episode #5 My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode I will be talking about how browser fingerprinting can impact your web scraping activities. In the last podcast I touched on the issue of browser fingerprinting. In this episode I want to dig...
02Jun
Cookies and Web Scraping
https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid-Podcast-4-Cookies-Web-Scraping.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast, Episode #4. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode I will be talking about how cookies and other information you provide can impact your web scraping success. When setting up a web scraping process, many people’s first instinct is to remove as...
02Jun
International Data Scraping Episode
Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast, Episode #3. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode, I will be talking a global perspective on information scraping. I have a problem with the phrase “The Internet”, because it implies that there is a “thing” out there, and that if we...
02Jun
Malware Protection
https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid-Podcast-2-Nfusion-Malware-Protection.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast: Episode 2. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode, I will be talking about the threats from the new breed of hackers and malware and how virtualization can be used to protect yourself. The nature and purpose of malware has...
02Jun
Improving Data Harvesting
https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid_Podcast_1_Scraping.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid audio briefs: Issue Number 1. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this issue, I will be talking about collecting big data against resisting targets. Big data is the big buzzword right now, and rightly so. There’s really two kinds of big data...
22May
Overcome Big Data Web Scraping Obstacles
In this podcast I talk about collecting big data against resisting targets. Data harvesting from public websites often happens at a scale that quickly alerts the target and leads them to take countermeasures. I discuss the kinds of countermeasures they can take, and how best to avoid detection in the...
06May
Antivirus Pioneer Changes Course
Symantec finally had the courage to admit what many in the security community have been saying for a long time: “Antivirus is dead”. Rapidly evolving threats and zero day vulnerabilities routinely circumvent conventional antivirus solutions. It is critical to handle infection without compromising valuable data or resources. Passages isolates malware...