ISC StormCast for Tuesday, June 24th 2014...
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NTP DDoS Counts Have Dropped, (Tue, Jun 24th)
I was poking around the usual online rags and found a piece on Threat Post. [1] Mike Mimoso was highlighting the decline of the NTP DDoS hole found earlier in the year. The ISC covered it in our...
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Spam, talk about false advertising, (Wed, Jun 25th)
SPAM SPAM SPAM, It never fails to entertain. Like most of you I get my fair share of SPAM and like a number of you I will happily click links (not a recommendation) and follow the little yellow...
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Do you have some DNS requests/replies you could share?, (Wed, Jun 25th)
Looking at DNS traffic it looks like it has been a busy month, but traffic seems to have dropped off. port 53 as a target has dropped off and during June there was an increase in traffic with a source...
View ArticleVMWare updates, (Wed, Jun 25th)
A new update has been released http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0007.html It addresses some struts issues. http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0006.html has also...
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View ArticleCall for packets - Traffic from 116.177.0.0/16, (Fri, Jun 27th)
If you have log records or packets for traffic from this particular subnet. If you have anything you can share I'd appreciate it. Likely what you will have is DNS open resolver checks, as well as...
View ArticleIn case you missed it - Mobile phone search ruling in US, (Fri, Jun 27th)
In case you missed it. In the US there has been a ruling that mobile phone searches require a warrant. This may have some implications for those of you that are forensically inclined. Some articles...
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View ArticlePHP 5.4.30 has been released. More info here...
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View ArticleNo more Microsoft advisory email notifications? , (Sat, Jun 28th)
We had this sent to us today letting us know there will no longer be emails sent by Microsoft for advanced notifications, etc. Instead people are to use the RSS feeds or other mechanisms....
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View ArticleShould I setup a Honeypot? [SANSFIRE], (Mon, Jun 30th)
During last weeks ISC handler panel at SANSFIRE, we had a lot more questions then we could answer. So I am trying to post some of these questions here over the next few days/weeks and please, chime in...
View ArticleApple Releases Patches for All Products, (Tue, Jul 1st)
Apple today released patches for most (all?) of its operating systems. For more details from Apple, see http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1222. - OS X has been updated to 10.9.4 (Security Update 2014-003)....
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View ArticleMicrosoft No-IP Takedown , (Tue, Jul 1st)
Microsoft obtained a court order allowing it to take over various domains owned by free dynamic DNS provider "No-IP" [1]. According to a statement from Microsoft, this was done to disrupt several...
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View ArticleJuly Ouch! Security Awareness Newsletter Released. E-mail Do's and Don'ts...
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View ArticleCisco Unified Communications Domain Manager Update, (Wed, Jul 2nd)
Yet another round of patches, this time for Cisco's Unified Communications Domain Manager [1]. The vulnerability that is probably going to be exploited first is the backdoor Cisco left behind for...
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