Diaries by Keyword - SANS Internet Storm Center

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Date	Author	Title
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2010-12-23	Mark Hofman	Skoudis' Annual Xmas Hacking Challenge - The Nightmare Before Charlie Brown's Christmas
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2018-06-13/a>	Xavier Mertens	A Bunch of Compromized Wordpress Sites
2014-01-02/a>	John Bambenek	OpenSSL.org Defaced by Attackers Gaining Access to Hypervisor
2012-12-03/a>	John Bambenek	John McAfee Exposes His Location in Photo About His Being on Run
2012-11-29/a>	Kevin Shortt	New Apple Security Update: APPLE-SA-2012-11-29-1 Apple TV 5.1.1
2012-11-28/a>	Mark Hofman	McAfee releases extraDAT for W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb-h
2012-11-28/a>	Mark Hofman	New version of wireshark is available (1.8.4), some security fixes included.
2012-11-27/a>	Chris Mohan	Can users' phish emails be a security admin's catch of the day?
2012-11-26/a>	John Bambenek	Online Shopping for the Holidays? Tips, News and a Fair Warning
2012-11-20/a>	John Bambenek	Behind the Random NTP Bizarreness of Incorrect Year Being Set
2012-11-20/a>	John Bambenek	Firefox v 17.0 just released, more here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/17.0/releasenotes/
2012-11-19/a>	John Bambenek	MoneyGram fined $100 million for aiding wire fraud - http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/moneygram-fined-100-million-for-wire-fraud/
2012-11-19/a>	John Bambenek	New Poll: Top 5 Unresolved Security Problems of 2012
2012-11-17/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	New Sysinternal Updates: AdExplorer v1.44, Contig v1.7, Coreinfo v3.2, Procdump v5.1. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/11/16/updates-adexplorer-v1-44-contig-v1-7-coreinfo-v3-2-procdump-v5-1.aspx?Redirected=true
2012-11-12/a>	John Bambenek	Request for info: Robocall Phishing Against Local/Regional Banks
2012-11-09/a>	Mark Baggett	Remote Diagnostics with PSR
2012-11-09/a>	Mark Baggett	Fresh batch of Microsoft patches next week
2012-11-07/a>	Mark Baggett	Help eliminate unquoted path vulnerabilities
2012-11-07/a>	Mark Baggett	Multiple 0-Days Reported!
2012-11-07/a>	Mark Baggett	Cisco TACACS+ Authentication Bypass
2012-11-05/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Reminder: Ongoing SMTP Brute Forcing Attacks
2012-11-05/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Possible Fake-AV Ads from Doubleclick Servers
2012-11-04/a>	Lorna Hutcheson	What's important on your network?
2012-10-31/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 31 - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
2012-10-30/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Hurricane Sandy Update
2012-10-30/a>	Richard Porter	Splunk 5.0 SP-CAAAHB4 http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAHB4
2012-10-28/a>	Tony Carothers	Firefox 16.02 Released
2012-10-26/a>	Russ McRee	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 26 - Attackers use trusted domain to propagate Citadel Zeus variant
2012-10-25/a>	Richard Porter	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 25 - Pro Audio & Video Packets on the Wire
2012-10-24/a>	Russ McRee	Ongoing Windstream outage in the midwest - https://twitter.com/search?q=windstream
2012-10-21/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 22: Connectors
2012-10-21/a>	Lorna Hutcheson	Potential Phish for Regular Webmail Accounts
2012-10-19/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19: Standard log formats and CEE.
2012-10-18/a>	Rob VandenBrink	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 18 - Vendor Standards: The vSphere Hardening Guide
2012-10-17/a>	Mark Hofman	New Acrobat release (including reader) available. Version 11. Some security improvements more here -->http://blogs.adobe.com/adobereader/
2012-10-16/a>	Richard Porter	CyberAwareness Month - Day 15, Standards Body Soup (pt2), Same Soup Different Cook.
2012-10-16/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 16: W3C and HTML
2012-10-14/a>	Pedro Bueno	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 14 - Poor Man's File Analysis System - Part 1
2012-10-09/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Microsoft October 2012 Black Tuesday Update - Overview
2012-10-07/a>	Tony Carothers	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 7 - Rollup Review of CSAM Week 1
2012-10-05/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 5: Standards Body Soup, So many Flavors in the bowl.
2012-10-05/a>	Richard Porter	VMWare Security Advisory: VMSA-2012-0014 - http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html
2012-10-05/a>	Richard Porter	Reports of a Distributed Injection Scan
2012-10-04/a>	Mark Hofman	And the SHA-3 title goes to .....Keccak
2012-10-02/a>	Russ McRee	Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 2 - PCI Security Standard: Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines
2012-10-01/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Cyber Security Awareness Month
2012-09-28/a>	Joel Esler	Adobe certification revocation for October 4th
2012-09-26/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Some Android phones can be reset to factory default by clicking on links
2012-09-26/a>	Johannes Ullrich	More Java Woes
2012-09-21/a>	Johannes Ullrich	iOS 6 Security Roundup
2012-09-20/a>	Russ McRee	Financial sector advisory: attacks and threats against financial institutions
2012-09-19/a>	Russ McRee	Script kiddie scavenging with Shellbot.S
2012-09-17/a>	Rob VandenBrink	What's on your iPad?
2012-09-14/a>	Lenny Zeltser	Scam Report - Fake Voice Mail Email Notification Redirects to Malicious Site
2012-09-13/a>	Mark Baggett	TCP Fuzzing with Scapy
2012-09-13/a>	Mark Baggett	Microsoft disrupts traffic associated with the Nitol botnet
2012-09-13/a>	Mark Baggett	More SSL trouble
2012-09-10/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Microsoft Patch Tuesday Pre-Release
2012-09-10/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Godaddy DDoS Attack
2012-09-10/a>	donald smith	Blue Toad publishing co compromise lead to UDID release. http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/10/13781440-exclusive-the-real-source-of-apple-device-ids-leaked-by-anonymous-last-week?lite
2012-09-06/a>	Johannes Ullrich	SSL Requests sent to port 80 (request for help/input)
2012-09-04/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Another round of "Spot the Exploit E-Mail"
2012-09-02/a>	Lorna Hutcheson	Demonstrating the value of your Intrusion Detection Program and Analysts
2012-09-01/a>	Russ McRee	Blackhole targeting Java vulnerability via fake Microsoft Services Agreement email phish
2012-08-31/a>	Russ McRee	Not so fast: Java 7 Update 7 critical vulnerability discovered in less than 24 hours
2012-08-30/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Editorial: The Slumlord Approach to Network Security http://isc.sans.edu/j/editorial
2012-08-29/a>	Johannes Ullrich	"Data" URLs used for in-URL phishing
2012-08-27/a>	Johannes Ullrich	The Good, Bad and Ugly about Assigning IPv6 Addresses
2012-08-27/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Malware Spam harvesting Facebook Information
2012-08-26/a>	Lorna Hutcheson	Who ya gonna contact?
2012-08-20/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	Do we need test procedures in our companies before implementing Antivirus signatures?
2012-08-19/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	Authentication Issues between entities during protocol message exchange in SCADA Systems
2012-08-12/a>	Tony Carothers	Layers of the Defense-in-Depth Onion
2012-08-12/a>	Tony Carothers	Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2012-3132
2012-08-09/a>	Mark Hofman	Zeus/Citadel variant causing issues in the Netherlands
2012-08-09/a>	Mark Hofman	SQL Injection Lilupophilupop style, Part 2
2012-08-07/a>	Adrien de Beaupre	Who protects small business?
2012-08-04/a>	Kevin Liston	Vendors: More Patch-Release Options Please
2012-07-27/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Cuckoo 0.4 is out - cool new features for malware analysis http://www.cuckoosandbox.org/
2012-07-24/a>	Richard Porter	Wireshark 1.8.1 Released http://www.wireshark.org/
2012-07-24/a>	Richard Porter	Report of spike in DNS Queries gd21.net
2012-07-20/a>	Mark Baggett	Syria Internet connection cut?
2012-07-19/a>	Mark Baggett	Diagnosing Malware with Resource Monitor
2012-07-19/a>	Mark Baggett	A Heap of Overflows?
2012-07-16/a>	Richard Porter	Sysinternals Update @ http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/07/16/updates-handle-v3-5-process-explorer-v15-22-process-monitor-v3-03-rammap-v1-21-zoomit-v4-3.aspx
2012-07-13/a>	Richard Porter	Yesterday (not as on the ball as Rob) at SANSFire
2012-07-13/a>	Russ McRee	2 for 1: SANSFIRE & MSRA presentations
2012-07-13/a>	Russ McRee	Yahoo service SQL injection vuln leads to account exposure
2012-07-12/a>	Rick Wanner	Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctms
2012-07-12/a>	Rick Wanner	Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Recording Server - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctrs
2012-07-12/a>	Rick Wanner	Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Immersive Endpoint Devices - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-cts
2012-07-12/a>	Rick Wanner	Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Manager - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctsman
2012-07-09/a>	Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez	Internet Storm Center panel tonight at SANSFIRE 2012!
2012-07-09/a>	Johannes Ullrich	The FBI will turn off the Internet on Monday (or not)
2012-07-05/a>	Adrien de Beaupre	New OS X trojan backdoor MaControl variant reported
2012-07-02/a>	Joel Esler	A rough guide to keeping your website up
2012-07-02/a>	Joel Esler	Linux & Java leap second bug
2012-06-29/a>	Jim Clausing	Updated SysInternals tools - Autoruns, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, PSKill -- http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/06/28/updates-autoruns-v11-32-process-explorer-v15-21-process-monitor-v3-02-pskill-v1-15-rammap-v1-2.aspx
2012-06-21/a>	Russ McRee	Analysis of drive-by attack sample set
2012-06-21/a>	Russ McRee	Wireshark 1.8.0 released 21 JUN 2012 http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
2012-06-19/a>	Daniel Wesemann	Vulnerabilityqueerprocessbrittleness
2011-06-22/a>	Guy Bruneau	How Good is your Employee Termination Policy?
2011-02-07/a>	Richard Porter	Crime is still Crime! Pt 2
2010-12-23/a>	Mark Hofman	Skoudis' Annual Xmas Hacking Challenge - The Nightmare Before Charlie Brown's Christmas
2010-10-26/a>	Pedro Bueno	Be (even more) careful with public hotspots. Firesheep released yesterday. Brilliant and scary.
2008-03-12/a>	Joel Esler	Don't use G-Archiver
2008-03-12/a>	Joel Esler	Adobe security updates
2006-10-05/a>	John Bambenek	There are no more Passive Exploits
CHALLENGE
2024-03-17/a>	Guy Bruneau	Gamified Learning: Using Capture the Flag Challenges to Supplement Cybersecurity Training [Guest Diary]
2022-12-10/a>	Didier Stevens	Open Now: 2022 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge & KringleCon
2021-12-22/a>	Brad Duncan	December 2021 Forensic Contest: Answers and Analysis
2021-12-08/a>	Brad Duncan	December 2021 Forensic Challenge
2020-08-02/a>	Didier Stevens	Small Challenge: A Simple Word Maldoc
2017-12-27/a>	Guy Bruneau	What are your Security Challenges for 2018?
2014-04-12/a>	Guy Bruneau	Interested in a Heartbleed Challenge?
2013-12-28/a>	Bojan Zdrnja	DRG online challenge(s)
2013-01-02/a>	Chris Mohan	Starting the New Year on the right foot
2012-04-16/a>	Mark Baggett	Challenge: What can you do with Funky Directory Names (Part 2)
2012-04-11/a>	Mark Baggett	Challenge: What can you do with funky directory names?
2011-09-07/a>	Lenny Zeltser	Analyzing Mobile Device Malware - Honeynet Forensic Challenge 9 and Some Tools
2010-12-23/a>	Mark Hofman	Skoudis' Annual Xmas Hacking Challenge - The Nightmare Before Charlie Brown's Christmas
2010-11-12/a>	Guy Bruneau	Honeynet Forensic Challenge - Analyzing Malicious Portable Destructive Files
2010-07-13/a>	Jim Clausing	Forensic challenge results
2010-06-04/a>	Rick Wanner	New Honeynet Project Forensic Challenge
2010-03-28/a>	Rick Wanner	Honeynet Project: 2010 Forensic Challenge #3
2010-01-27/a>	Raul Siles	European Union Security Challenge (Campus Party 2010)
2010-01-19/a>	Jim Clausing	Forensic challenges
2009-07-27/a>	Raul Siles	New Hacker Challenge: Prison Break - Breaking, Entering & Decoding
2008-03-25/a>	Raul Siles	New Security Challenge - It Happened One Friday
2008-03-23/a>	Johannes Ullrich	Finding hidden gems (easter eggs) in your logs (packet challenge!)

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