INFOCon Green: Heartbleed - on the mend, (Mon, Apr 14th)
We are going back to INFOCon Green today. Things have stabilized and the INFOCon is used to indicate change. Awareness of Heartbleed is well saturated and Internet teams everywhere appear to be...
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View ArticleVMWare Advisory VMSA-2014-0004 - Updates on OpenSSL HeartBleed...
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View ArticleLooking for malicious traffic in electrical SCADA networks - part 1, (Tue,...
When infosec guys are performing intrusion detection, they usually look for attacks like portscans, buffer overflows and specific exploit signature. For example, remember OpenSSL heartbleed...
View ArticleNew Feature: Monitoring Certification Revocation Lists...
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View ArticleISC StormCast for Wednesday, April 16th 2014...
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View ArticleOracle Critical Patch Update for April 2014, (Wed, Apr 16th)
Oracle released its quarterly Criticical Patch Update (CPU) yesterday [1]. As usual, the number of patches is quite intimidating. But remember these 104 fixes apply across the entire Oracle product...
View ArticleWinXP and/or Win2003 hanged systems because of SC Forefront Endpoint...
Reader Philipp reported today a bug affecting his remaining Windows XP machines and Windows 2003 servers. Seems to be that all Windows XP and Windows 2003 machines with SC Forefront Endpoint Protection...
View ArticleHeartbleed CRL Activity Spike Found, (Wed, Apr 16th)
It looks like, as I had suspected, the CRL activity numbers we have been seeing did not reflect the real volume caused by the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. This evening I noticed a massive spike in the...
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View ArticleLooking for malicious traffic in electrical SCADA networks - part 2 -...
I received this week a very valuable e-mail from the DNP Technical Committee Chair, Mr. Adrew West, who pointed an excellent observation and it's the very slow adoption of DNP3 Secure Authentication...
View ArticleISC StormCast for Friday, April 18th 2014...
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View ArticleTesting your website for the heartbleed vulnerability with nmap, (Fri, Apr 18th)
We have received reports by many readers about buggy tools to test for the heartbleed vulnerability. Today I want to show you how easy it is to check for this vulnerability using a reliable tool as...
View ArticleHeartbleed hunting, (Mon, Apr 21st)
Yes, I know that by now you are really tired of hear and read about Heartbleed. You probably already got all testing scripts and tools and are looking on your network for vulnerable servers. I was...
View ArticleISC StormCast for Monday, April 21st 2014...
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View ArticleOpenSSL Rampage, (Mon, Apr 21st)
OpenSSL, in spite of its name, isn't really a part of the OpenBSD project. But as one of the more positive results of the recent Heartbleed fiasco, the OpenBSD developers, who are known for their focus...
View ArticleFinding the bleeders, (Mon, Apr 21st)
Now that the frantic frenzy around "Heartbleed" has calmed, and most sites are patched, it is time to circle back. For a server at a community college that I knew had been affected, I wanted to see if...
View ArticleAllow us to leave!, (Mon, Apr 21st)
Here's one yardstick that I use before signing up for any new online service: I first search the Interwebs for stories from users who tried to close their account and to leave same service, and were...
View ArticleISC StormCast for Tuesday, April 22nd 2014...
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View ArticleApple Patches for OS X, iOS and Apple TV., (Tue, Apr 22nd)
Apple today released patches for OS X, iOS and Apple TV. The OS X patches apply for versions of OS X back to Lion (10.7.5). Vulnerabilities fixed by these patches can lead to remote code execution by...
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