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November 2011 - Posts

• ISC StormCast for Thursday, December 1st 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2164, (Thu, Dec 1st)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:45 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Wednesday, November 30th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2161, (Wed, Nov 30th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:35 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Hacking HP Printers for Fun and Profit, (Tue, Nov 29th)

  An MSNBCblog has published the recent findings of a study from Columbia University saying mill ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:22 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Tuesday, November 29th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2158, (Tue, Nov 29th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 28, 2011 8:01 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• A Puzzlement..., (Mon, Nov 28th)

  Perhaps I'm getting old and unimaginative - but I just don't get it. ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 28, 2011 12:22 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Pentesters LOVE VOIP Gateways !, (Mon, Nov 28th)

  As someone who does vulnerability assessments, you always hope your clients are doing a good job wit ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 28, 2011 8:29 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• It's Cyber Monday - Click Here!, (Mon, Nov 28th)

  Wait - What? Click Here? It appears that our spamming friends are taking advantage of the Cyber ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 28, 2011 8:09 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Monday, November 28th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2155, (Mon, Nov 28th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Sunday, November 27, 2011 10:08 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Quick Tip: Pastebin Monitoring & Recon, (Thu, Nov 24th)

  Happy Thanksgiving! On the heels of Dr. Ullrich's diary regardingSCADA hacks published on Pas ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 24, 2011 10:56 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• SCADA hacks published on Pastebin, (Wed, Nov 23rd)

  pastebin.com has become a simple platform to publish evidence of various attacks ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:50 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2152, (Wed, Nov 23rd)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:05 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Updates on ZeroAccess and BlackHole front..., (Tue, Nov 22nd)

  Mpack, IcePack, Eleonore, Phoenix, BlackHole. ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:06 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• RealPlayer update addresses 19 CVEs. Patch it! Remember that Exploit kits can exploit vulnerable client apps. http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/11182011_player/en/, (Tue, Nov 22nd)

  Pedro Bueno (pbueno /%%/ isc. sans ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:05 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2149, (Tue, Nov 22nd)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 21, 2011 9:58 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Monday, November 21st 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2146, (Mon, Nov 21st)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Sunday, November 20, 2011 8:25 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Monitoring your Log Monitoring Process, (Sat, Nov 19th)

  A review of this year's diaries on Log Monitoring We Write a lot about Log Monitoring and Analysis. ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Saturday, November 19, 2011 4:30 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Dragon Research Group (DRG) announced the white paper entitled "VNC: Threats and Countermeasures" : https://dragonresearchgroup.org/insight/vnc-tac.html, (Sat, Nov 19th)

  Pedro Bueno (pbueno /%%/ isc. sans ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 18, 2011 8:17 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• FBI Seeking Victims in Operation Ghost Click/DNS Malware Investigation, (Fri, Nov 18th)

  From their press-release: The FBI is seeking information from individuals, corporate entities and I ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 18, 2011 3:17 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Fujacks Variant Using ACH Lure, (Fri, Nov 18th)

  During my shift we received and email claiming to be from The Electronic Payments Association& ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 18, 2011 10:39 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Recent VMWare security advisories, (Fri, Nov 18th)

  VMWare released a new advisory, and updated a security advisory yesterday. VMSA-2011-0014: ht ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 18, 2011 7:50 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Friday, November 18th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2143, (Fri, Nov 18th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:48 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Thursday, November 17th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2140, (Thu, Nov 17th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:23 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Potential 0-day on Bind 9, (Wed, Nov 16th)

  Internet System Consortium has published an alert earlier as they are investigating a potential vuln ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:26 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• A worm has my network, what now?, (Wed, Nov 16th)

  You may have seen the reports that the New Zealand Ambulance service had to revert to manual process ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:42 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Wednesday, November 16th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2137, (Wed, Nov 16th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:22 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• GET BACK TO ME ASAP, (Wed, Nov 16th)

  A bit of a twist on the Nigerian 419 scam, where the scammer is claiming that the represent the UN a ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:35 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Tuesday, November 15th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2134, (Tue, Nov 15th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 14, 2011 10:00 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• November OUCH! released - "Browser Security & Safety": http://www.securingthehuman.org/resources/newsletters/ouch, (Tue, Nov 15th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 14, 2011 9:27 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• www.disa.mil down?, (Tue, Nov 15th)

  The web server behind disa.mil appears to be down ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 14, 2011 7:15 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Dragon Research Group (DRG) announced a new VNC probe insight report: https://dragonresearchgroup.org/insight/, (Tue, Nov 15th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 14, 2011 7:07 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Apple update summary, (Mon, Nov 14th)

  Those folks over at Apple Inc have been churning out the patches recently, so to keep them all toget ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 14, 2011 1:25 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Monday, November 14th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2131, (Mon, Nov 14th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Sunday, November 13, 2011 8:35 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Yay! More Sysinternals updates! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals, (Fri, Nov 11th)

  -- Rick Wanner - rwanner at isc dot sans dot org - http://namedeplume.blogspot ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 11, 2011 2:08 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Adobe Air updated to 3.1.0.4880, (Fri, Nov 11th)

  -- Rick Wanner - rwanner at isc dot sans dot org - http://namedeplume.blogspot ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 11, 2011 10:34 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Details About the fbi.gov DNSSEC Configuration Issue., (Fri, Nov 11th)

  We got a number of comments regarding the FBI.gov DNSSEC issue, which I think warrant explaining som ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 11, 2011 10:17 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• What's up with fbi.gov DNS?, (Fri, Nov 11th)

  We received a report from a reader that fbi.gov, is not resolving ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 11, 2011 8:56 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• APPLE-SA-2011-11-10-2 Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station (802.11n) Firmware 7.6 update, (Fri, Nov 11th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 11, 2011 8:31 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Adobe Flash update to 11.1.102.55, (Fri, Nov 11th)

  -- Rick Wanner - rwanner at isc dot sans dot org - http://namedeplume.blogspot ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 11, 2011 8:28 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Friday, November 11th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2128, (Fri, Nov 11th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:03 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Patrick dropped us a line on Microsoft SA 2641690, which describes 22 weak cipher certs in the wild (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2641690). Fix is in KB2641690, downloadable via auto-update or http://support.microsoft.com/kb/26416,

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:10 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Apple iOS 5.0.1 released - Battery life problem resolved, but several security updates as well ==> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5052 , including CVE-2011-3442 (the infamous Charlie Miller "now you are shunned" bug), (Thu, Nov 10th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:58 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Stuff I Learned Scripting - - Parsing XML in a One-Liner, (Thu, Nov 10th)

  This is the second story in this Stuff I Learned Scripting series. As I write scripts, ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:12 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Thursday, November 10th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2125, (Thu, Nov 10th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:19 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Operation Ghost Click: FBI bags crime ring responsible for $14 million in losses, (Wed, Nov 9th)

  Source: http://www.fbi ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:37 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Wednesday, November 9th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2122, (Wed, Nov 9th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2011 9:30 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Apple Black Tuesday , (Tue, Nov 8th)

  Joel pointed out that Apple had joined the black Tuesday update frenzy this month with an update for ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:46 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Abobe November 2011 Black Tuesday Overview, (Tue, Nov 8th)

  Adobe has released 1 bulletin today. This updates Adobe products to the following versions: ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:54 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Microsoft November 2011 Black Tuesday Overview, (Tue, Nov 8th)

  Overview of the November 2011 Microsoft patches and their status. # ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:46 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Firefox 8.0 released, (Tue, Nov 8th)

  Rene wrote in to point out that Firefox 8.0 is released ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:42 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Tuesday, November 8th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2119, (Tue, Nov 8th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 07, 2011 9:55 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Juniper BGP issues causing locallized Internet Problems, (Mon, Nov 7th)

  We're starting to get reports (thanks to both Branson and Darryl) that a Juniper OS bug with BGP, co ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 07, 2011 12:14 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Stuff I Learned Scripting - Evaluating a Remote SSL Certificate, (Mon, Nov 7th)

  I find that the longer I work in this field, the more scripts I write. Solving a problem with ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Monday, November 07, 2011 11:56 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Monday, November 7th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2116, (Mon, Nov 7th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Sunday, November 06, 2011 7:56 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• New, odd SSH brute force behavior, (Sun, Nov 6th)

  Over the past 72 hours, I've noticed a shift in the types of brute force attacks I'm seeing on my SS ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:39 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• New Poll: In the coming 12 months, what is your deployment plan or status with IPv6?, (Fri, Nov 4th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 04, 2011 6:08 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Duqu Mitigation, (Fri, Nov 4th)

  There has been a lot of information published on Duqu over the past few days and it is likely exploi ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Friday, November 04, 2011 4:48 AM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Friday, November 4th 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2110, (Fri, Nov 4th)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:47 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• November 2011 Patch Tuesday Pre-release, (Thu, Nov 3rd)

  This upcoming Tuesday Microsoft is releasing four bulletins ranging from critical to moderate affect ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:03 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• An Apple, Inc. Sandbox to play in., (Thu, Nov 3rd)

  Today was a fairly slow *knock on wood* day on the Internet. Rare that we have business as u ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Thursday, November 03, 2011 6:37 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Thursday, November 3rd 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2107, (Thu, Nov 3rd)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:32 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Wireshark updates: 1.6.3 and 1.4.10 released, (Wed, Nov 2nd)

  Wireshark has released 1.6 ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2011 6:54 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• ISC StormCast for Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=2104, (Wed, Nov 2nd)

  ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:49 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)

• Secure languages & frameworks, (Tue, Nov 1st)

  Richard S wrote us and asked what information we could offer regarding languages frameworks th ...(more)... Share Post: Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2011 2:15 PM from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green | (Comments Off)