I’m excited to share that we have just released free online training to introduce you to osquery. Our goal was to combine quick setup and hands on labs with complete accessibility, so that anyone who wanted to give osquery a try, could.
Doug Wilson
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Late last week, Chris Sanders (@chrissanders88), a former FireEye colleague, posted an interesting "lunchtime poll":
Topics: osquery, open-source
I’ve written before about how I feel open-source technology will prove disruptive in the security industry. Having recently returned from a week in San Francisco for B-Sides SF & RSA, which is known as the annual pilgrimage for "Infosec Sales," I feel that way now more than ever. The growth in adoption of open-source technologies may indicate that people are starting to get more comfortable with the concept or ability of their still being enough room for innovation that companies can charge for what they develop on top of “free” open-source projects. Coming back from the premier sales conference for the information security industry is a great showcase for why I’ve come away with that thought. Let's explore...
Topics: osquery, open-source
SQL (Structured Query Language) will be in its mid-forties later this month having been introduced by its creators Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce in the 1970s. Given its age, it isn’t so hard to understand how the 2017 Stack Overflow Developers Survey uncovered that SQL is the second-most common programming language, used by 50% of developers and beaten only by JavaScript.
Topics: osquery tutorial, osquery, video
Osquery offers introspection capabilities for macOS that were previously difficult to achieve. Osquery uses a universal agent to collect and return a nearly unlimited amount of endpoint data that can then be queried like a database using SQL. For macOS system administrators, this opens up a world of quickly accessible system monitoring capabilities that we'll explore here today.
In this post and video (click here to skip ahead to the video), we'll review some of the basic tasks for macOS system monitoring with osquery (osquery can be used for Linux and Windows as well, but because macOS was previously so underserved, I'm focusing there. Most commands we'll review will be the same or similar for other systems).
What we'll cover:
Topics: osquery tutorial, osquery, macOS, video
Need to manually uninstall osquery on macOS? If you no longer want to use osquery on your Mac, or if you need to manually clear out the installation because you're having problems with the end-point and you want to reinstall from scratch, follow the four steps outlined below. We've also included the terminal command in text format so you can easily copy and paste.
Prefer video? Click here to skip ahead to a ~3 minute video and all commands required to uninstall osquery from your macos using Uptycs.
Topics: osquery tutorial, osquery, macOS
The first week of February 2018 has seen another piece of macOS malware — CreativeUpdater malware. This time a cryptominer masquerading as several different software packages on the MacUpdate.com website. Again, even a few days later, a lot of endpoint solutions are not necessarily picking this up, looking at VirusTotal.
Seeing on Twitter that Patrick Wardle (a must follow for macOS security!) may have found his first piece of macOS malware for 2018, I eagerly flipped to his blog. Given that this is “new” malware on macOS, there is likely going to be a window between discovery and protection via A/V software.
Further updates in the #iamroot saga have shown a confusing set of responses from Apple that invalidate some of what I posted earlier, and also may give a false sense of security if users have not installed updates in the proper sequence and then restarted.
