Articles by hrbrmstr

Send UDP Probes (with payloads) and Receive/Process Responses in R

February 3, 2019 | hrbrmstr

We worked pretty hard over at $DAYJOB on helping to quantify and remediate a fairly significant configuration weakness in Ubiquiti network work gear attached to the internet. Ubiquiti network gear — routers, switches, wireless access points, etc. — are enterprise grade components and are a joy to work with. Our home network ...
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R Package Update: urlscan

February 3, 2019 | hrbrmstr

The urlscan???? package (an interface to the urlscan.io API) is now at version 0.2.0 and supports urlscan.io’s authentication requirement when submitting a link for analysis. The service is handy if you want to learn about the details — all the gory technical details — for a website. For instance, say ...
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Fast Static Maps Built with R

January 30, 2019 | hrbrmstr

Luke Whyte posted an article (apologies for a Medium link) over on Towards Data Science showing how to use a command line workflow involving curl, node and various D3 libraries and javascript source files to build a series of SVG static maps. It’s well written and you should give ...
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Waffle Geoms & Other Miscellaneous In-Development Package Updates

January 10, 2019 | hrbrmstr

More than just sergeant has been hacked on recently, so here’s a run-down of various ???? updates: waffle The square pie chart generating waffle???? package now contains a nascent geom_waffle() so you can do things like this: library(hrbrthemes) library(waffle) library(tidyverse) tibble( parts = factor(rep(month.abb[1:3], 3), ...
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Certifiably Gone Phishing

December 23, 2018 | hrbrmstr

Phishing is [still] the primary way attackers either commit a primary criminal act (i.e. phish a target to, say, install ransomware) or is the initial vehicle used to gain a foothold in an organization so they can perform other criminal operations to achieve some goal. As such, security teams, ...
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Use GitHub Vulnerability Alerts to Keep Users of Your R Packages Safe

November 14, 2018 | hrbrmstr

Despite their now inherent evil status, GitHub has some tools other repository aggregators do not. One such tool is the free vulnerability alert service which will scan repositories for outdated+vulnerable dependencies. Now, “R” is nowhere near a first-class citizen in the internet writ large, including software development tooling (e....
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