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...Vern Paxson began developing the project in the 1990s under the name “Bro” as a means to understand what was happening on his university and national laboratory networks. Vern and the project’s leadership team renamed Bro to Zeek in late 2018 to celebrate its expansion and continued development. Zeek is not an active security device, like a firewall or intrusion prevention system. Rather, Zeek sits on a “sensor,” a hardware, software, virtual, or cloud platform that quietly and unobtrusively observes network traffic. Zeek interprets what it sees and creates compact, high-fidelity transaction logs, file content, and fully customized output, suitable for manual review on disk or in a more analyst-friendly tool like a security and information event management (SIEM) system.

Drive Badger is a software tool for data exfiltration – which means, for copying data from the computer to external USB drive. Unlike many other tools from IT security area, it's not a Proof-of-Concept kind of tool, bringing some groundbreaking techniques. Everything, what Drive Badger does, can be as well run manually, step by step. Instead, what Drive Badger really does, is doing it all better, by putting the maximum focus on: