Comment: I found this article to be very interesting about Netflix as I have subscribed to this. Quite interesting approach to predict advance possbile attacks.
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By Darren Pauli, 28 Aug 2014
NetFlix's security team has given the open source treatment to three tools it uses to monitor the internet and gather evidence of planned attacks against its infrastructure.
"Scumblr" and "Sketchy", plus the "Workflowable" tool both rely on, are now on GitHub for any security teams to use.
Scumblr sifts through forums and social media networks in search of discussions of possible hacks or denial of service attacks against an organisation using keywords predefined by an administrator. Sketch takes screenshots and scrapes text from sites.
"Scumblr and Sketchy are helping the Netflix security team keep an eye on potential threats to our environment every day," the pair wrote.
Scumblr includes a set of built-in libraries that allow creating searches for common sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. For other sites, it is easy to create plugins to perform targeted searches and return results.
"Once you have Scumblr setup, you can run the searches manually or automatically on a recurring basis."
http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/08/28/hygbnjiu7y6t.pngScumblr
The Reigster/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/28/netflix_releases_homegrown_web_detective_tools/
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