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    Husband. Father of four daughters (and their dungeon master). Guardian of Peach, our precious yellow lab and Toad, a cat. Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Software developer in cybersecurity research and development at Idaho National Lab. Geek and homelabber. Sporadic guitarist/singer/songwriter. Fan of a wide swath of music. Lover of sci-fi, horror and weird fiction. Into family history and genetic genealogy (48% ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ, 23% ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ, 17% ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ, 9% ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ, 3% ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช, depending on the reference panels used). Avid outdoorsman: archery, shooting, hunting, fishing and hiking. Idaho, USA. Hablo espaรฑol tambiรฉn.
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If youโ€™re a #dominos person: my daughterโ€™s #highschool band is doing a #fundraiser with these #BOGO โ€œSlice the Priceโ€ cards.

Here's the link.

  • $20 (plus like a buck shipping)
  • Buy a large pizza at menu price โ†’ get a large FREE
  • Works for double the large pizzas no matter how many you order
  • Unlimited uses through 12/31/2026
  • Valid at 2,609 Dominoโ€™s stores in 42 states (map on the site)
  • Works in-person, call-in, online, and in the Dominoโ€™s app

No pressureโ€”just sharing in case anybody reading this likes #pizza and wants to eat twice as much of it without paying more money.

Help us raise $6,000! โ€” Miriam Grover & Bonneville High School Band

Please help Miriam Grover and Bonneville High School Band! We need help raising money towards a band trip to Vegas and a concert in Disney Land! Your support is greatly appreciated!

The Slice the Price Card: Fundraising Made Easy

Malcolm v25.12.1 contains a few critical bug fixes and component version updates.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v25.12.0...v25.12.1

  • โœจ Features and enhancements
    • Installer splash screen shows "HEDGEHOG" when using Hedgehog run profile
  • โœ… Component version updates
  • ๐Ÿ› Bug fixes
    • Changed field used in Threat Intelligence dashboard's file type table from zeek.intel.file_mime_type to file.mime_type so filters created from it can work on other dashboards
    • link for threat intelligence URL doesn't work correctly from dashboards (behind reverse proxy) (#832)
    • self-signed certificates not accepted by Chrome (#833)
    • Malcolm ISO installer's automatic partitioning may create too-small /var partition (#835)
  • ๐Ÿงน Code and project maintenance

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network ๐Ÿ–ง traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers ๐Ÿ“ฆ, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker ๐Ÿ‹, Podman ๐Ÿฆญ, and Kubernetes โŽˆ. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images ๐Ÿ’ฟ for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux ๐Ÿฆ” can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split ๐Ÿช“ into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash ๐Ÿง (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell ๐ŸชŸ (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board ๐Ÿ’ฌ to engage with the community, or pop some corn ๐Ÿฟ and watch a video ๐Ÿ“ผ.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL

Malcolm v25.11.0 includes an overhaul of the install.py installation/configuration script, a few bug fixes, and some component version updates.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v25.09.0...v25.11.0

  • โœจ Features and enhancements
    • We're in the process of majorly overhauling our install.py script (#395) used for setting up a Linux or MacOS system to run Malcolm and for configuring Malcolm's runtime options. There are future updates still to come (#766) but for now the command-line and dialog-based interfaces' functionality and backend are in place. The step-by-step wizard has been replaced with a menu-based interface that allows for changing individual values without having to step through the whole set of questions. The Docker-based Malcolm installation example on Ubuntu and end-to-end installation example have useful information about this change, as does the command-line arguments document. We've done a lot of testing on what's a complete rewrite of this, but there is a possibility we missed something; if you find an issue with the new install/configure script, please open a discussion or log a bug and let us know. For the next release or so, we're leaving the legacy installer in place as scripts/legacy_install.py which could be used in a pinch (e.g., run scripts/legacy_install.py --configure for the old configuration menu).
    • We've incorporated a new "Connections Tree" visualization. This visualization tracks the potential of lateral movement based on the observed communications between all devices that reach a root node, identified by IP address. It gives a high-level view showing both direct and indirect connetions between the root IP and all of its destinations, regardless of time, along with enriched data for each endpoint and connection.
    • Updates to the Validated Design Architecture Review (VADR) dashboards.
    • The OpenSearch container now includes the repository-s3 plugin, useful for those who wish to configure OpenSearch's snapshots to save to S3-compatible buckets.
  • โœ… Component version updates
  • ๐Ÿ› Bug fixes
    • Double imports when restarting Malcolm (#588) (thanks @KchChr)
  • ๐Ÿงน Code and project maintenance
    • Refactored a number of Python functions to reduce cyclomatic complexity (#765, work ongoing)
  • ๐Ÿ“„ Configuration changes (in environment variables in ./config/) for Malcolm and in control_vars.conf for Hedgehog Linux. The Malcolm control script (e.g., ./scripts/status, ./scripts/start, etc.) should take care of creating new variables and migrating existing ones as needed based on the rules in ./config/env-var-actions.yml without intervention on the user's part.
    • Malcolm
      • NGINX_RESOLVER_IPV4_OFF and NGINX_RESOLVER_IPV6_OFF have been renamed to NGINX_RESOLVER_IPV4 and NGINX_RESOLVER_IPV6, respectively, and their logic reversed, in nginx.env.

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network ๐Ÿ–ง traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers ๐Ÿ“ฆ, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker ๐Ÿ‹, Podman ๐Ÿฆญ, and Kubernetes โŽˆ. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images ๐Ÿ’ฟ for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux ๐Ÿฆ” can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split ๐Ÿช“ into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash ๐Ÿง (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell ๐ŸชŸ (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board ๐Ÿ’ฌ to engage with the community, or pop some corn ๐Ÿฟ and watch a video ๐Ÿ“ผ.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL

CISA will furlough 65% of its staff if the government shuts down on Wednesday, keeping about 890 people to handle mission-critical cybersecurity protection work. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-go... As in other agencies, employees there are worried about potential RIFs of furloughed staff.

Malcolm v25.09.0 includes new features and available customizations, improvements to Threat Intelligence, component version updates, and several important bug fixes.

https://github.com/idaholab/Malcolm/compare/v25.08.1...v25.09.0

  • โœจ Features and enhancements
    • improve Modbus register tracking with new modbus_detailed.log (cisagov/Malcolm#762)
    • add non-LVM option(s) for Malcolm/Hedgehog Linux ISO installers (cisagov/Malcolm#725)
    • allow configuring default search time frame for OpenSearch Dashboards (cisagov/Malcolm#724)
    • allow customizing maximum upload file size (cisagov/Malcolm#769)
    • add Arkime capture statistics to the Packet Capture Statistics dashboard (cisagov/Malcolm#703)
    • integrate Validated Architecture Design Review (VADR) dashboards (cisagov/Malcolm#780)
    • Threat Intelligence improvements
      • support Google Threat Intelligence feed for building Zeek intel source (cisagov/Malcolm#758)
      • renamed Zeek Intelligence dashboard to Threat Intelligence and improved it
      • links from context menu items in Arkime and Dashboards (like reference URLs for IOCs) now ask the user before navigating to external sites
    • Added icons with links to "ready" and "ingest statistics" APIs to landing page
    • Include tx-rx-secure.sh in files packaged by malcolm_appliance_packager.sh
  • โœ… Component version updates
  • ๐Ÿ› Bug fixes
    • Python code handling X-Forwarded- headers should do case insensitive lookup (cisagov/Malcolm#764)
    • uploaded PCAPs that result in no filename-derived tags erroneously end up with internal tags on them (cisagov/Malcolm#774)
    • installer option for encrypted storage are not marking secondary data/artifact storage for encryption (cisagov/Malcolm#779)
    • Malcolm/Hedgehog Linux ISO-installed environments' auditd service fails to start (cisagov/Malcolm#761)
    • Failed shard query error on Overview dashboard (cisagov/Malcolm#754)
  • ๐Ÿงน Code and project maintenance
    • refactor GitHub build actions for Malcolm Docker images to reduce duplication (cisagov/Malcolm#717)
  • ๐Ÿ“„ Configuration changes (in environment variables in ./config/) for Malcolm and in control_vars.conf for Hedgehog Linux. The Malcolm control script (e.g., ./scripts/status, ./scripts/start, etc.) should take care of creating new variables and migrating existing ones as needed based on the rules in ./config/env-var-actions.yml.
    • Malcolm
      • PCAP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILE_GB added to upload-common.env to allow configuring maximum PCAP upload size (cisagov/Malcolm#769)
      • DASHBOARDS_TIMEPICKER_FROM and DASHBOARDS_TIMEPICKER_TO added to dashboards-helper.env to allow configuring default search time frame for OpenSearch Dashboards (cisagov/Malcolm#724)

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network ๐Ÿ–ง traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers ๐Ÿ“ฆ, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker ๐Ÿ‹, Podman ๐Ÿฆญ, and Kubernetes โŽˆ. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images ๐Ÿ’ฟ for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux ๐Ÿฆ” can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split ๐Ÿช“ into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash ๐Ÿง (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell ๐ŸชŸ (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board ๐Ÿ’ฌ to engage with the community, or pop some corn ๐Ÿฟ and watch a video ๐Ÿ“ผ.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL

Release Malcolm v25.09.0 ยท idaholab/Malcolm

Malcolm v25.09.0 includes new features and available customizations, improvements to Threat Intelligence, component version updates, and several important bug fixes. v25.08.1...v25.09.0 โœจ Features...

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Building a network traffic analysis system: Deploying Malcolm on Amazon EC2

This is the first of two blog posts on the AWS Public Sector Blog about deploying Malcolm on Amazon AWS. It covers installing Malcolm on a single EC2 instance. The next post will cover deploying Malcolm on EKS.

For those of you more interested in scaling Malcolm using Kubernetes, you can check out our "still-in-beta" Helm chart and share your feedback in the issue tracker on that repo.

#AWS #EC2 #Malcolm #Zeek #Arkime #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL #DHS #CISA #CISAgov

Building a network traffic analysis system: Deploying Malcolm on Amazon EC2 | Amazon Web Services

In this post, we provide step-by-step guidance for deploying Malcolmโ€”an open source network traffic analysis suiteโ€”natively on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), using the on-demand compute, elasticity, and scalability of AWS to eliminate traditional infrastructure overhead. This approach is particularly beneficial for cost-conscious public sector (federal, state, and local), utility, and industrial customers who require network and security monitoring to deliver on their missions.

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One advantage of camping on a sand beach is that there is a very low fire hazard, and plenty of driftwood. Our students took advantage.

#OrangeRiver #Camping #fire #Landscape #Photography #SouthAfrica

I feel this is too tightly cropped, but that it still captures something of the evening

Original: https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/1229434682

Malcolm v25.07.0 includes quite a few new features and enhancements, performance improvements, bug fixes, and component version updates.

If you are updating from a version older than v25.06.0, please read those release notes prior to updating to this version.

  • โœจ Features and enhancements
    • Add IANA service name and description enrichment to Zeek's known_services.log (#705)
    • Improve the speed of pruning files (#710)
    • allow multiple instance of Suricata in PCAP processing mode via UNIX socket (#707)
    • expose Arkime WISE tagging features to the user (#377)
    • handle comma- or semicolon-separated directories for PCAP_PROCESSED_DIRECTORY (to support new live PCAP processing method in Malcolm-Helm) (#702)
    • handle new OPCUA Binary summary logs (#709)
    • incorporate new ANSI C12.22 parser and add corresponding dashboard (#708)
    • overhauled instructions for Deploying Malcolm on Amazon Web Services (AWS) including deploying Malcolm on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in Auto Mode
    • install.py script is now a bit more robust in trying to help ensure the correct packages and Python libraries are installed
  • โœ… Component version updates
    • Fluent Bit to v4.0.5
    • Arkime v5.7.1
    • Supercronic v0.2.34
    • OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards v3.1.0
    • Keycloak v26.2.5
    • yq v4.47.1
    • NetBox v4.3.4
      • NetBox Initializers plugin v4.3.0
      • NetBox Topology Views plugin v4.3.0
    • Zeek v7.2.2
    • Spicy v1.13.2
    • urllib3 Python Library to v2.5.0 (addresses CVE-2025-50181)
    • ICSNPP Zeek network analyzer updates
      • BACnet parser fixes for previously unsupported services (see cisagov/icsnpp-bacnet#50 and cisagov/icsnpp-bacnet#51)
      • Ethernet/IP various fixes (cisagov/icsnpp-enip#34 (partial); cisagov/icsnpp-enip#35; cisagov/icsnpp-enip#36; cisagov/icsnpp-enip#37; cisagov/icsnpp-enip#38)
      • GENISYS minor updates (cisagov/icsnpp-genisys#25)
      • OPCUA Binary summary logs (cisagov/icsnpp-opcua-binary#102)
      • S7comm fixes for ACK message processing (cisagov/icsnpp-s7comm#19; cisagov/icsnpp-s7comm#20)
  • ๐Ÿ› Bug fixes
    • zeek logs not cleaned by clean-processed-folder.py due to MIME type mismatch (#712)
    • packet capture statistics dashboard not working in Kibana (#704)
    • need to adjust shared object creation script (e.g., dashboards import) for new versions of Kibana (#713)
    • log fingerprinting needs to be examined to avoid unintentional collisions (#715)
    • install.py issues in Rocky Linux, Almalinux (#385)
    • OpenSearch container health check issue when OpenSearch is disabled (#716)
    • investigate NetBox API access via Malcolm's netbox endpoint and mapi endpoint (#701)

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network ๐Ÿ–ง traffic analysis tool suite for network security monitoring ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ.

Malcolm operates as a cluster of containers ๐Ÿ“ฆ, isolated sandboxes which each serve a dedicated function of the system. This makes Malcolm deployable with frameworks like Docker ๐Ÿ‹, Podman ๐Ÿฆญ, and Kubernetes โŽˆ. Check out the Quick Start guide for examples on how to get up and running.

Alternatively, dedicated official ISO installer images ๐Ÿ’ฟ for Malcolm and Hedgehog Linux ๐Ÿฆ” can be downloaded from Malcolm's releases page on GitHub. Due to limits on individual files in GitHub releases, these ISO files have been split ๐Ÿช“ into 2GB chunks and can be reassembled with scripts provided for both Bash ๐Ÿง (release_cleaver.sh) and PowerShell ๐ŸชŸ (release_cleaver.ps1). See Downloading Malcolm - Installer ISOs for instructions.

As always, join us on the Malcolm discussions board ๐Ÿ’ฌ to engage with the community, or pop some corn ๐Ÿฟ and watch a video ๐Ÿ“ผ.

#Malcolm #HedgehogLinux #Zeek #Arkime #NetBox #OpenSearch #Elasticsearch #Suricata #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #OT #ICS #icssecurity #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec #INL #DHS #CISA #CISAgov

My team develops #Zeek network analyzers for #OT protocols (see ICSNPP on GitHub). If you're familiar with this work, you know one of the hardest parts about it is getting sample data. If you've got access to traffic for some of the more niche protocols on our list (BSAP, ANSI C12.22, GE-SRTP, GENISYS, ROC Plus, Synchrophasor, etc.) and are willing and able to share a bit of PCAP, would you please reach out to me?

#operationaltechnology #ics #icssecurity #PCAP

GitHub - cisagov/ICSNPP: Industrial Control Systems Network Protocol Parsers

Industrial Control Systems Network Protocol Parsers - cisagov/ICSNPP

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Hey, y'all, if you have anything to do with the Zeek network security monitor (as a user, script/plugin developer, researcher, whatever), would you please take 10 minutes to fill out the Zeek Project Survey 2025. This is your chance to help the Zeek team know how you feel about the project and help shape its direction moving forward.

#Zeek #PCAP #NetworkTrafficAnalysis #networksecuritymonitoring #CyberSecurity #Cyber #Infosec

Zeek Project Survey 2025

Thank you for sharing your experience with Zeek! This brief survey will take no more than 10 minutes to complete and will help us improve the tools, support, and community that make Zeek great. In this survey, youโ€™ll be asked about: Your background Your satisfaction with Zeek Your experience in the community Contribution and engagement Ideas for Zeekโ€™s future Your feedback matters. We appreciate your time and input!

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