A while ago I was studying the webp image format by Google out of curiosity. I had written a .png parser in the past and was interested in seeing how the lossless VP8L encoding in particular was working in that library. While I was using a external Rust library to decode the actual image data…
Read MoreWith the upgrade to NetEye 4.44, we’ve added a lot of new features (https://www.neteye-blog.com/2025/10/neteye-4-44-release-notes/) and, from my point of view, one of the most relevant is the introduction of Elastic Stack 9. This Elasticsearch major release (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/9.0/elastic-stack-release-notes.html) includes some new functionalities such as: ESQL Lookup Joins , LogsDB Index Mode Optimizations, etc. During various migrations…
Read MoreMy SANS Course in London – April 2025 Back in April, I had the opportunity to attend a SANS course in London. More precisely, SANS 504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling. The course ran from April 7th to April 12th, and those six days were intense, exciting, and surprisingly fun in ways I didn’t…
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The NetEye Conference 2025 in Verona offered a full day of deep-dive sessions, live use cases, and peer-to-peer learning – all centered around one guiding theme: Intelligent Operations in Action. Our community explored how observability, cybersecurity, and service management converge to create smarter, more resilient IT ecosystems. Keynotes by Sebastiano Barisoni and Matteo Meucci set…
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Producing actionable intelligence must be the mindset that every Threat Intelligence analyst must set as their primary objective. The problem of properly integrating Threat Intelligence into Security Operations processes is a recurring one. In this article, I aim to describe the integration process we, at Würth IT, have implemented, which allows us to produce actionable…
Read MoreRecently Icinga DB Web had a new security release, fixing a vulnerability where protected or hidden custom variables could be inferred by any user with object visibility by abusing comparative filters on those hidden variables.
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