Sean Gallagher (thepacketrat)

Information security threat researcher, recovering journalist.

This site is the home of various tools, experiments, and things I built primarily for my own amusement. If you find them useful or amusing as well, fantastic! Otherwise, I apologize for wasting your attention budget.

Social media

I can be found on various social media platforms--some for threat research, some for keeping track of friends, some for posting vast quantities of bird pictures. Sometimes I cross the streams.

Current projects:

My day job is cyber threat intelligence. My personal projects are related to my work, but often less serious.

GitHub (code, past presentations and conference talks, general mayhem): https://github.com/packetrat
Sean's Vulnerability Emotes submission system, a lightweight proposed replacement for CVE now that s*** is bananas in vulnville. (A list of submitted vulns is here.
Base64encode and decodetools (working but ugly)
In progress: a link obfuscator for avoiding previews and blocking of content by Xitter and other social sites because they’re on competing platforms or whatever. I was working on this in the Xitter End Days but this still is worth doing as an exercise.
Cyberthreaterator, a totally for entertainment only threat actor name generator (now with “attribution”). There is also a version for creating alliterative codenames in the style of Ubuntu releases.

The Threaderator, a social media thread editor that can be used offline in your browser.

Stuff I wrote in past professional capacities

Sean Gallagher (thepacketrat)

Information security threat researcher, recovering journalist.

Social media

Current projects:

Stuff I wrote in past professional capacities

Sophos threat research

Ars Technica