"Trojan Pong" and other malware data visualization ideas

"Trojan Pong" and other malware data visualization ideas

This small experimental project was done for the Shadowserver Foundation. They are a volunteer, Not for Profit organization who deal in the capture, analysis and dissemination of data and intelligence relating to nefarious activity on the internet. Shadowserver provided us with one day worth of data (which was several gigabytes) for us to apply some known techniques, and experiment with some new ones.

The idea of this project was simply to provide some ideas as to ways to represent their massive datasets visually. There's lot of work to go, however here are few early ideas. My favourite is a light-hearted time series visualization in the theme of an old favourite arcade game originally released in 1972 "Pong".

See all of the samples at http://dataviz.com.au/shadowserver/ideas.html