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SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
Baggett, Mark
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @markbaggett |
Recent Diaries:
• Wipe the drive! Stealthy Malware Persistence - Part 4
• Wipe the drive! Stealthy Malware Persistence - Part 3
• AVG detect legit file as virus
• Wipe the drive! Stealthy Malware Persistence - Part 2
• Wipe the drive! Stealthy Malware Persistence Mechanism - Part 1
Bambenek, John
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @ILCyberSecurity |
Recent Diaries:
• FYI: Anonymous Planning "OpUSA" Attacks on Banks and US Gov't on May 7th. More Info as Relevant to Come.
• A Chargen-based DDoS? Chargen is still a thing?
• ISC Handler Lenny Zeltser's REMnux v4 Reviewed on Hak5
• UPDATEDx1: Boston-Related Malware Campaigns Have Begun - Now with Waco Plant Explosion Fun
• Fake Boston Marathon Scams Update
Bruneau, Guy
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @guybruneau |
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Recent Diaries:
• Exploit Sample for Win32/CVE-2012-0158
• Safe - Tools, Tactics and Techniques
• Port 51616 - Got Packets?
• Apple ID Two-step Verification Now Available in some Countries
• IPv6 Focus Month: IPv6 Encapsulation - Protocol 41
Bueno, Pedro
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @besecure |
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Recent Diaries:
• NBC site redirecting to Exploit kit
• Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 14 - Poor Man's File Analysis System - Part 1
• Simple Malware Research Tools
• The RedRet connection...
• Updates on ZeroAccess and BlackHole front...
Carothers, Tony
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
• A scan is a scan is a scan
• Intermittent Outages at Amazon.com
• HP JetDirect Vulnerabilities Discussed
• SSH Brute Force on Non-Standard Ports
• Firefox 16.02 Released
Clausing, Jim
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @jclausing |
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Recent Diaries:
• So what passwords are those ssh scanners trying?
• Is there an epidemic of typo squatting?
• IPv6 Focus Month: Guest Diary: Matthew Newton - IPv6 Cat Feeder - Turning those extra bits into bytes, literally
• IPv6 Focus Month at the Internet Storm Center
• And the Java 0-days just keep on coming
de Beaupre, Adrien
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @adriendb |
Recent Diaries:
• MoVP II
• Privilege escalation, why should I care?
• Moore, Oklahoma tornado charitable organization scams, malware, and phishing
• Phishing/spam via SMS
• YYABCAFU - Yes Yet Another Bleeping Critical Adobe Flash Update
Esler, Joel
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
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Recent Diaries:
• Exim/Dovecot exploit making the rounds
• Cisco TelePresence Supervisor MSE 8050 Denial of Service Vulnerability
• Call for Papers - 4th annual Forensics and Incident Response Summit EU
• Microsoft re-releases MS12-078
• VMWare posts some updates
Fendley, Scott
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @itsecuritygeek |
Recent Diaries:
• Apple Blocks Older Insecure Versions of Flash Player
• Evernote Security Issue
• Blocking SSH to Limit Security Exposures
• Oracle Releases Java Security Updates
• Apple iTunes Security Update
Frantzen, Swa
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
• Store passwords the right way in your application
• Adobe June 2013 Black Tuesday Overview
• vmware security advisory VMSA-2013-0008
• Other Microsoft Black Tuesday News
• Microsoft June 2013 Black Tuesday Overview
Hale, Deborah
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
• Another Company Falls Victim
• Badware 2011
• Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
• Links on your Facebook Wall
• Data Encryption Ban? Really?
Hall, Stephen
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @tarkie101 |
Recent Diaries:
• Java 0-Day patched as Java 7 U 11 released
• Sysinternals Updates
• You encrypt your laptops, but what about portable media?
• Oracle Patch Tuesday Pre-Release
• Java 0-day impact to Java 6 (and beyond?)
Hofman, Mark
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
• Drupal.org & group.drupal.org password disclosure
• Interesting Credit Card transactions, are you seeing similar?
• Verizon Data Breach report has been released
• MS13-036 has been re-released
• KB2823324 causing boot issues in Brazil and some other locales
Hutcheson, Lorna
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
• Fedora RedHat Vulnerabilty Released
• Is it Really an Attack?
• What's important on your network?
• Potential Phish for Regular Webmail Accounts
• Demonstrating the value of your Intrusion Detection Program and Analysts
Lam, Jason
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @jasonlam_sec |
Recent Diaries:
• Potential 0-day on Bind 9
• Microsoft killed Kelihos botnet
• MySQL.com compromised spreading malware
• Firefox 3.5 forced upgrade coming soon
• Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 10
Liston, Kevin
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
• WinLink Check-In
• How Your Webhosting Account is Getting Hacked
• Untangling the News from South Korea
• Why I think you should try Bro
• "My Computer is Acting Strangely"
Liston, Tom
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
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Recent Diaries:
• A Puzzlement...
• New, odd SSH brute force behavior
• What's In A Name?
• Security 101 : Security Basics in 140 Characters Or Less
• The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. ED
McRee, Russ
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @holisticinfosec |
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Recent Diaries:
• Volatility rules...any questions?
• EMET 4.0 is now available for download
• Apache binary backdoor adds malicious redirect to Blackhole
• SANS's Alan Paller discusses the threat of cyberterrorism on CNN
• What is "up to date anti-virus software"?
Mohan, Chris
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @Chris_Mohan |
Recent Diaries:
• VMware releases new and updated security advisories
• Syria drops from Internet 7th May 2013
• Fake Link removal requests
• Does your breach email notification look like a phish?
• VMware releases new and updated security advisories
Porter, Richard
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @packetalien |
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Recent Diaries:
• When Hotel Alarms Sound
• BIND 9 Update fixing CVE-2013-3919
• Apple iTunes Services Outage
• IPv6 Focus Month: Traffic Testing, Firewalls, ACLs, pt 1
• Uptick in MSSQL Activity
Sachs, Marcus
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @MarcusSachs |
Recent Diaries:
• New Internet Storm Center Director
• A Day In The Life Of A DShield Sensor
• Stuxnet Analysis
• Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 31 - Tying it all together
• Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 15 - What Teachers Need to Know About Their Students
Santander Pelaez, Manuel Humberto
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @manuelsantander |
Recent Diaries:
• Knowing where to look for the owner of an offending IP address
• UDP port 1434 directed attack to AS13489 IP ranges
• More massive malicious spam! This time claiming to be from Almacenes Exito
• Massive Google scam sent by email to Colombian domains
• SANS SCADA Summit at Orlando - Bigger problems and so far from getting them solved
Shortt, Kevin
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @Kevin_Shortt |
Recent Diaries:
• Port 51616 - Got Packets?
• The Zero-Day Pendulum Swings
• Spamhaus DDOS
• Is it Spam or Is it Malware?
• Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 29 - Clear Desk: The Unacquainted Standard
smith, donald
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
• DNS-Changer "clean DNS" extension requested
• GlobalSign releases security incident report.
• New feature in JUNOS to drop or ignore path attributes.
• New Mac Trojan: BASH/QHost.WB
• Health or Performance monitoring to detect security events.
Ullrich, Johannes
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @johullrich |
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Recent Diaries:
• Stupid Little IPv6 Tricks
• When Google isn't Google
• Plesk 0-day: Real or not?
• Apple releases OS 10.8.4
• There's value in your logs! (Part 2)
VandenBrink, Rob
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
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Recent Diaries:
• Java 7 Update 21 is available - Watch for Behaviour Changes !
• Oops - You Mean That Deleted Server was a Certificate Authority?
• Sourcefire VRT Community ruleset is live
• Several Cisco IOS DOS Issues Resolved
• Which IPS is "The Best"?
Wanner, Rick
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @namedeplume |
Recent Diaries:
• Microsoft August 2012 Black Tuesday Update - Overview
• Interesting scan for medical certification information...
• OpenDNS is looking for a few good malware people!
• TippingPoint DNS Version Request increase
• Excellent Security Education Resources
Wesemann, Daniel
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Recent Diaries:
• SANSFIRE 2013
• 100% Compliant (for 65% of the systems)
• e-netprotections.su ?
• Extracting signatures from Apple .apps
• The cost of cleaning up
Zdrnja, Bojan
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @bojanz |
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Recent Diaries:
• SSHD rootkit in the wild
• Auditd is your friend
• Memory acquisition traps
• Analyzing outgoing network traffic (part 2)
• Analyzing outgoing network traffic
Zeltser, Lenny
SANS Internet Storm Center Handler
Twitter: | @lennyzeltser |
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Recent Diaries:
• Extracting Digital Signatures from Signed Malware
• It's a Dangerous Web Out There
• Fake Mandiant APT Report Used as Malware Lure
• Challenges of Anti-Phishing Advice, the Google Docs Edition
• Scam Report - Fake Voice Mail Email Notification Redirects to Malicious Site

