Personal

• System

  • Laptop & Server OS: Debian GNU/Linux
  • Mobile OS: LineageOS

• Software/Service

  • Web browser: Brave Browser
  • Private email/calendar/drive/vpn/password manager: Proton
  • Private messaging: Signal
  • Multi-factor authentication: YubiKey
  • Writing papers: Overleaf
  • Creating figures: Inkscape
  • Paper organizer: Zotero
  • Download video/audio: yt-dlp
  • Genealogy: gramps
  • Tor: Tor Browser

Software …

This is a good website for lots of general cyber security datasets: http://www.secrepo.com/

Malware Samples:

• Large dataset: https://github.com/sophos/SOREL-20M
• Malware from 2010-today: https://www.vx-underground.org/

Gathering Data:

• Static features for PE malware classification: https://github.com/elastic/ember
• Dynamic features for clustering PE …

Read these first:

• How to read a paper (2007): link
• How (and how not) to write a good systems paper: link

Papers: You can find all of these on Google Scholar

• An intrusion-detection model (1987) - Denning
• The SRI IDES statistical anomaly detector (1991) - Javitz and Valdes
• Self-nonself discrimination in a …