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Level Up Coding

Security Research Ethics Review

What’s the subject, Kenneth?

10 min readApr 22, 2021

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Security Research Ethics Review

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Dave Dittrich
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Level Up Coding

Let’s not use default passwords, m’kay?

Or, “How I integrated python-secrets with Splunk’s Attack Range framework, and how you can do the same for your open source project!”

15 min readJan 4, 2021

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Let’s not use default passwords, m’kay?

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Dave Dittrich
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Level Up Coding

Insight into network packet captures

Saying “PCAP, or it didn’t happen!” is all well and good but if you can’t see into the PCAP, how do you know what happened?

18 min readSep 7, 2020

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Insight into network packet captures

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Dave Dittrich
in
Level Up Coding

Diving into sandbox-captured malware data

Looking for malware in all the right places (with the right tool!)

11 min readJun 11, 2020

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A screen image captured from a computer infected with NotPetya ransomware, extorting the user for Bitcoins to decrypt files.

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Dave Dittrich
in
The Startup

A look at recent updates to three professional ethical codes

Advancing ethical thinking regarding responses to cyber crime

17 min readFeb 24, 2020

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A look at recent updates to three professional ethical codes

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Dave Dittrich

What is the real cost of abandoning ethics in America?

Respect, beneficence, and justice must be universal or else they are meaningless.

19 min readSep 4, 2019

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What is the real cost of abandoning ethics in America?

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Dave Dittrich
in
The Startup

20 Years of DDoS: August 17, 1999

The University of Minnesota was kept off-line for three days, and I was kept busy for weeks.

15 min readAug 17, 2019

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20 Years of DDoS: August 17, 1999

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Dave Dittrich
in
The Startup

20 Years of DDoS: August 5, 1999

Something is happening, but what?

13 min readAug 6, 2019

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20 Years of DDoS: August 5, 1999

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Dave Dittrich

Hacking Back #IRL

Eradicating an Intruder from a Network

36 min readJul 31, 2019

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Hacking Back #IRL

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Dave Dittrich
in
The Startup

20 Years of DDoS

Part 0: The Build Up to Distributed Denial of Service

8 min readJul 23, 2019

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20 Years of DDoS

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Dave Dittrich

Dave Dittrich

Information Security Researcher, Consultant, Writer. Support my writing by joining Medium https://git.io/JKLPq (affiliate link — I get a portion of your fee)

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