OpenLate provides an evening hack lounge with themed tech talks at the OpenDNS office.



Tonight we are partnering with the SF Text meetup (http://www.meetup.com/sf-text) to host a talk about natural language processing. Jeremiah O'Connnor, a researcher at OpenDNS, is presenting about "The Language of Evil : Hunting Malicious Domains with Natural Language Processing in Network Traffic."



Domain squatting on legitimate brand names such as Google, Adobe, Java, and Paypal is a common tactic used by a wide array of adversaries, from mass phishing campaigns to spamming to C2 domains in APT attacks. In this talk, we present NLP-Rank, a generic detection model we have developed at OpenDNS Labs that utilizes NLP/Text processing techniques to identify malicious behavior in network traffic.



Learn more about NLPRank on the OpenDNS research blog: https://labs.opendns.com/2015/03/05/nlp-apt-dns/