Research/Presentations

Where Josh has presented:

Technical


Detecting Phishing using Visual Similarity

Slides (PDF, 36 MB) Documentation and Scripts

Qubit Prague, CZ (May, 2025)

DeepSec, Vienna, AT (November, 2024)


    URL Analysis at Scale

    Slides (PDF, 34 MB) Documentation and Scripts

    Cisco Data Science Summit, Prague, CZ (Feb, 2024)

    DeepSec, Vienna, AT (November, 2023)

    • I built the code for this over September and October of 2023 in preparation for DeepSec and am still actively developing it. Soon, I’ll set the work done here up as a website for others to use.

    Signature-based Detection using Network Timing

    Slides (PDF, 38 MB)

    Defcon, Las Vegas (Aug, 2024)

    Qubit, Prague, CZ (April, 2023)

    Cisco Data Science Summit, Prague, CZ (Feb, 2023)

    DeepSec, Vienna, AT (November, 2022)


    Ransomware Trends and Analysis

    Slides (PDF, 32 MB)

    DeepSec, Vienna, AT (November, 2020)

    Exploitcon, Portland, OR (June, 2020)

    • work on this is ongoing and will continue to be updated as I prepare to present findings at additional conferences.

    Automating Threat Intelligence

    Slides (PDF, 31 MB) Documentation and Scripts

    Qubit Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria (Nov, 2018)


    We Pass the Costs to You, An Analysis of Cryptomining and Cryptojacking

    Slides (PDF, 82 MB)

    SANS Webinar (May, 2018)


    Behavioral Analysis With DNS and Network Traffic

    Slides (PDF, 18 MB) Documentation and Scripts

    BSides Amsterdam (Sept, 2017)

    BSides Las Vegas (Aug, 2017)

    Info Security Europe, Olympia, London. UK (June, 2017)

    InfoSec World, Orlando, FL (April, 2017)

    DeepSec Vienna, Austria (Nov, 2016)


    Uncovering and Visualizing Malicious Infrastructure

    Research done with Andrea Scarfo

    Slides (PDF, 25 MB)

    Hong Kong, HK, DragonCon (Dec, 2020)

    Anchorage, AK, Arctic-Con (Oct, 2020)

    New Orleans, LA, SANS Threat Hunting Summit (Sept, 2018)


    Building Intelligent HoneyPots

    Slides (PDF, 28 MB) Documentation and Scripts

    DeepSec, Vienna, Austria (Nov, 2015)

    DerbyCon, Louisville, KY (Sept, 2015)

    NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field (Oct, 2015)

    Source Boston, Boston, MA (2015)


    Building an IDS for Cloud Services

    Slides (PDF, 18 MB)

    Source Boston, Boston, MA (2016)

    Bsides Austin, TX (2016)

    Bsides SF, CA (2015)

    BSides Chicago (2015)


    Strategic


    The Future of the Internet

    Slides (PDF, 41 MB)

    Santa Clara County: The Future of the Internet (Oct, 2017)


    The Modern Soc

    Slides (PDF, 21 MB)

    BSides Portland: Workshop on building IDS and SOCs (Oct, 2017)

    Bsides Vienna (Nov, 2016)

    Source Seattle (Sept, 2016)

    BSides Austin, TX, April 2016 (April, 2016)

    QuBit, Prague, CZ, April 2016 (April, 2016)

    Cloud Security World, Boston, MA (June 2016)

    Defcon (Aug, 2010)

    San Jose State, San Jose, CA: The NASA Security Operations Center (Sept, 2010)


    Your Cloud is Bigger Than You Think

    Slides (PDF, 10 MB)

    Midwest Cyber Sec Conf, Milwaukee, WI (Sept, 2017)