Posts Tagged Internet Storm Center

New Sguil HTTPRY Agent, (Wed, Jul 13th)

I have tested a new Sguil agent released by Paul Halliday last month to collect and store http traffic session into the Sguil database for web traffic analysis. If you are looking for a method to collect and mine web traffic session, this new agent is your tool. Here ...

New Sguil HTTPRY Agent, (Wed, Jul 13th)

I have tested a new Sguil agent released by Paul Halliday last month to collect and store http traffic session into the Sguil database for web traffic analysis. If you are looking for a method to collect and mine web traffic session, this new agent is your tool. Here ...

Safer Windows Incident Response, (Sat, Jul 9th)

There's always a moment in any horror film where, inexplicably, one of the character, let's call him Chuck, wanders blindly into an obviously lethal encounter in a confined space. It's the I'm just going down to the cellar to find out where everyone else has gone moment that has most ...

“Too Important to Patch” – Wait? What?, (Wed, Jul 6th)

I recently had a routine can you help our business partner type call from a client. Their business partner could receive email from them, but could not send email to them. After a bit of digging in the SMTP header of a failed note, it turned out that ...

“Too Important to Patch” – Wait? What?, (Wed, Jul 6th)

I recently had a routine can you help our business partner type call from a client. Their business partner could receive email from them, but could not send email to them. After a bit of digging in the SMTP header of a failed note, it turned out that ...

Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 , (Mon, Jul 4th)

On June 28th Microsoft released a Service Pack for Office 2010. Office 2010 SP1 includes the usual roll-up of past security and hotfix patches, as well as a number of improvements and new features, particularly for its Office Web Applications (OWA), the online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint ...

Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 , (Mon, Jul 4th)

On June 28th Microsoft released a Service Pack for Office 2010. Office 2010 SP1 includes the usual roll-up of past security and hotfix patches, as well as a number of improvements and new features, particularly for its Office Web Applications (OWA), the online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint ...

Bootkits, they are back at full speed…, (Sat, Jul 2nd)

First of all, don't get me wrong, this is not a media FUD to scary you because of the recent coverage on the MBR rootkits. :) As many of our readers probably know, earlier this week there was a report from the AV vendor Kaspersky about approximately 4.5 million computers infected ...

Symantec Report – Spam Surge against Social Networks, (Thu, Jun 30th)

Symantec published today a report that spam attacks via social networks (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) grew in popularity between April and June 2011 for the purpose of distributing spam, malware and phishing attacks. 57% of it originated from the United States with another 19% originating from various European countries. Of ...

Are All Networks Vulnerable?, (Mon, Jun 27th)

One of the assertions made by the recent run of high profile attacks was that all networks are vulnerable, and the groups behind these attacks either had or could have access to many more systems if they wish. Several articles expanded on this assertion and using the recent compromises as evidence ...