Episode 8 - Mark Baggett on Python for InfoSec

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Brief Introduction
Date of recording - May 28th, 2015
Hosts - Tobias Macey and Chris Patti
Overview - Interview with Mark Bagett
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Interview with Mark Bagett
Introductions
How were you first introduced to Python? - Chris
Started using it for automating tasks while working as a sysadmin
Found code that launched an attack on FTP server - in Python

What are some of the tasks in your job that you use Python for? -Tobias
Trusted command & control backdoor for Windows
Mostly not used by malware authors - thus far (at least Mark hasn’t seen it used that way)
Fla [...]