Snort 2.9.2 now supporting SCADA protocol checks, (Sun, Jan 8th)
One of the major concerns of a public utility security issues applicable to securing SCADA systems of energy, gas and water supply. Manufacturers have responded slowly to this challenge and we can see...
View ArticleAdobe January 2012 Black Tuesday overview, (Tue, Jan 10th)
Adobe has released 1 bulletin today. This updates Adobe products to the following versions: Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.1 and previous # Affected Known Exploits Adobe rating APSB12-01 Multiple...
View ArticleNew wireshark released - 1.6.5 and 1.4.11 - www.wireshark.org/download.html,...
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View ArticleJanuary 2012 Microsoft Black Tuesday Summary, (Tue, Jan 10th)
Overview of the January 2012 Microsoft patches and their status. # Affected Contra Indications - KB Known Exploits Microsoft rating(**) ISC rating(*) clients servers MS12-001 Vulnerability in Windows...
View ArticleISC Feature of the Week: Internet Storm Center / DShield API, (Wed, Jan 11th)
This is a follow-on to last week's How to Submit Firewall Logs feature (https://isc.sans.edu/diary/ISC+Feature+of+the+Week+How+to+Submit+Firewall+Logs/12316). This week we detail how to access data...
View ArticleISC StormCast for Thursday, January 12th 2012...
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View ArticleStuff I Learned Scripting - Fun with STDERR, (Thu, Jan 12th)
Say youre writing a long Windows CMD script, something like an audit script thatll take a good 20-30 minutes to complete. Now say the whole script is being redirected to a report file - as scripts get...
View ArticlePHP 5.39 was release on the 10th, amongst other things, it addresses...
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View ArticleISC StormCast for Friday, January 13th 2012...
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View ArticleJanuary 2012 OUCH! released - This month we focus on how to secure home...
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View ArticleNew Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) out for Sale, (Fri, Jan 13th)
Yesterday ICANN started accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The world of .com, .gov, .org and 19 other gTLDs will soon be expanded to include all types of words in many...
View ArticleStrange DNS Queries - Request Packets/Logs, (Fri, Jan 13th)
We have received some strange DNS traffic sample Type A query that isn't your typical DNS format. The DNS query has some fields that do change are marked with a X (see DNS query pattern). Other...
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View ArticleHello, Antony!, (Sat, Jan 14th)
Antony Elmar owns quite a few domain names. He lives in a lovely city called Kansas, US, but seems to make his home there on a park bench, because he doesn't have a street address. On the upside, the...
View ArticleISC StormCast for Monday, January 16th 2012...
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View ArticleZappos Breached, (Mon, Jan 16th)
The online retailer Zappos announced yesterday a breach to their systems and has expired all password accounts on zappos.com. There is a letter to employees from Zappos CEO available on zappos.com.[1]...
View Articlephp 5.3.9 released -Jan-10-2011, (Mon, Jan 16th)
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View ArticleUse of Mixed Case DNS Queries, (Wed, Jan 18th)
In my DNS server query logs, I am starting to see more queries usingmixed case, like for example: jOHanNEs.HoMePC.OrG www.HOMEPC.ORg wWW.Homepc.org Www.HoMepC.ORg WwW.homepc.ORg WwW.HOmepc.oRG...
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