Tim Helming

Oct 23, 2024 | domaintools.com | Eliza Kingsley |Tim Helming

Breaking Badness In this episode of Breaking Badness, Kali, Tim, and Taylor discuss two major stories shaking up the cybersecurity world. First, a researcher has discovered how attackers are exploiting Whois data to grant themselves unprecedented superpowers in the digital space.

Oct 12, 2023 | domaintools.com | Fatima Saladis |Tim Helming

Earlier this year we introduced the concept of the DomainTools “Recipe Book,” a series of instructions for using DomainTools data in specific applications to meet various use cases. In each entry of this series, we’ll describe one or more objectives and share some tools and procedures needed to accomplish that objective. Most of these involve automation technologies of one kind or another (as did two of the three we shared last time), and—of course—at least one DomainTools product.

Sep 7, 2023 | domaintools.com | Fatima Saladis |Tim Helming

Going back many years in the history of DomainTools, we have spent a lot of time learning about the various ways in which practitioners can put the data we provide into practical action in their environments.

Aug 24, 2023 | domaintools.com | Fatima Saladis |Tim Helming

Regular attendees of the annual DEF CON hack-xtravaganza in Las Vegas will know that one of the popular categories of activity there is the various competitions. There are many different themes and variations, testing a wide variety of hacking, open source intelligence (OSINT), electronics, and other skills.

Aug 3, 2023 | domaintools.com | Fatima Saladis |Tim Helming

A June 2023 threat roundup blog by Cisco’s reliably excellent Talos research team showed that the banking Trojan malware Ramnit was at the top of their list of most prevalent threats for that week. Ramnit’s been around a long time, so this is clearly malware with staying power, and it must be continuing to pay off for its operators, else it would long ago have been consigned to the virtual scrap heap of malware history.