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Handler on Duty:
Didier Stevens
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Date
Author
Title
WINDOWS 8
2014-04-04
Rob VandenBrink
Windows 8.1 Released
2012-05-06
Jim Clausing
Tool updates and Win 8
WINDOWS
2022-11-05/a>
Guy Bruneau
Windows Malware with VHD Extension
2022-06-26/a>
Didier Stevens
My Paste Command
2022-06-24/a>
Xavier Mertens
Python (ab)using The Windows GUI
2022-04-28/a>
Johannes Ullrich
A Day of SMB: What does our SMB/RPC Honeypot see? CVE-2022-26809
2022-04-14/a>
Johannes Ullrich
An Update on CVE-2022-26809 - MSRPC Vulnerabliity - PATCH NOW
2022-04-06/a>
Brad Duncan
Windows MetaStealer Malware
2022-02-25/a>
Didier Stevens
Windows, Fixed IPv4 Addresses and APIPA
2021-10-14/a>
Xavier Mertens
Port-Forwarding with Windows for the Win
2021-07-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
"Summer of SAM": Microsoft Releases Guidance for CVE-2021-36934
2021-07-19/a>
Rick Wanner
New Windows Print Spooler Vulnerability - CVE-2021-34481
2021-05-02/a>
Didier Stevens
PuTTY And FileZilla Use The Same Fingerprint Registry Keys
2020-09-30/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Scans for FPURL.xml: Reconnaissance or Not?
2020-09-02/a>
Xavier Mertens
Python and Risky Windows API Calls
2020-09-01/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Exposed Windows Domain Controllers Used in CLDAP DDoS Attacks
2020-08-25/a>
Xavier Mertens
Keep An Eye on LOLBins
2020-06-24/a>
Jan Kopriva
Using Shell Links as zero-touch downloaders and to initiate network connections
2020-03-30/a>
Jan Kopriva
Crashing explorer.exe with(out) a click
2020-03-23/a>
Didier Stevens
Windows Zeroday Actively Exploited: Type 1 Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
2020-03-16/a>
Jan Kopriva
Desktop.ini as a post-exploitation tool
2020-02-18/a>
Jan Kopriva
Discovering contents of folders in Windows without permissions
2020-02-17/a>
Didier Stevens
curl and SSPI
2020-02-15/a>
Didier Stevens
bsdtar on Windows 10
2020-01-09/a>
Kevin Shortt
Windows 7 - End of Life
2019-06-27/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Finding the Gold in a Pile of Pennies - Long Tail Analysis in PowerShell
2019-06-06/a>
Xavier Mertens
Keep an Eye on Your WMI Logs
2019-05-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
An Update on the Microsoft Windows RDP "Bluekeep" Vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) [now with pcaps]
2019-03-05/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Powershell, Active Directory and the Windows Host Firewall
2019-01-14/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Still Running Windows 7? Time to think about that upgrade project!
2018-12-19/a>
Xavier Mertens
Restricting PowerShell Capabilities with NetSh
2018-12-19/a>
Xavier Mertens
Microsoft OOB Patch for Internet Explorer: Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
2018-06-05/a>
Xavier Mertens
Malicious Post-Exploitation Batch File
2018-05-07/a>
Xavier Mertens
Adding Persistence Via Scheduled Tasks
2018-05-02/a>
Russ McRee
Windows Commands Reference - An InfoSec Must Have
2017-11-15/a>
Xavier Mertens
If you want something done right, do it yourself!
2017-11-11/a>
Xavier Mertens
Keep An Eye on your Root Certificates
2017-01-18/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Making Windows 10 a bit less "Creepy" - Common Privacy Settings
2017-01-12/a>
Mark Baggett
System Resource Utilization Monitor
2016-11-18/a>
Didier Stevens
VBA Shellcode and Windows 10
2016-08-29/a>
Russ McRee
Recommended Reading: Intrusion Detection Using Indicators of Compromise Based on Best Practices and Windows Event Logs
2016-08-02/a>
Tom Webb
Windows 10 Anniversary Update Available
2016-07-12/a>
Xavier Mertens
Hunting for Malicious Files with MISP + OSSEC
2016-05-22/a>
Pasquale Stirparo
The strange case of WinZip MRU Registry key
2016-05-18/a>
Russ McRee
Resources: Windows Auditing & Monitoring, Linux 2FA
2016-04-15/a>
Xavier Mertens
Windows Command Line Persistence?
2016-03-30/a>
Xavier Mertens
What to watch with your FIM?
2016-02-18/a>
Xavier Mertens
Hunting for Executable Code in Windows Environments
2016-01-31/a>
Guy Bruneau
Windows 10 and System Protection for DATA Default is OFF
2015-12-09/a>
Xavier Mertens
Enforcing USB Storage Policy with PowerShell
2015-08-12/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows Service Accounts - Why They're Evil and Why Pentesters Love them!
2014-08-15/a>
Tom Webb
AppLocker Event Logs with OSSEC 2.8
2014-07-05/a>
Guy Bruneau
Java Support ends for Windows XP
2014-04-06/a>
Basil Alawi S.Taher
"Power Worm" PowerShell based Malware
2014-04-04/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows 8.1 Released
2014-03-24/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New Microsoft Advisory: Unpatched Word Flaw used in Targeted Attacks
2014-03-04/a>
Daniel Wesemann
XPired!
2014-01-10/a>
Basil Alawi S.Taher
Windows Autorun-3
2014-01-04/a>
Tom Webb
Monitoring Windows Networks Using Syslog (Part One)
2013-10-30/a>
Russ McRee
SIR v15: Five good reasons to leave Windows XP behind
2013-03-19/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Being "pushed" today
2013-02-28/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Parsing Windows Eventlogs in Powershell
2012-10-24/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Time to run Windows Update - - Microsoft Updates KB2755801 for Windows RT / IE10 / Flash Player - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2755801
2012-07-19/a>
Mark Baggett
Diagnosing Malware with Resource Monitor
2012-06-25/a>
Guy Bruneau
Issues with Windows Update Agent
2012-05-08/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Windows Firewall Bypass Vulnerability and NetBIOS NS
2012-05-06/a>
Jim Clausing
Tool updates and Win 8
2012-04-10/a>
Swa Frantzen
Windows Vista RIP
2011-12-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New Vulnerability in Windows 7 64 bit
2011-07-09/a>
Chris Mohan
Safer Windows Incident Response
2011-06-30/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Update for RSA Authentication Manager
2011-06-01/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Enabling Privacy Enhanced Addresses for IPv6
2011-03-27/a>
Guy Bruneau
Strange Shockwave File with Surprising Attachments
2011-03-15/a>
Lenny Zeltser
Limiting Exploit Capabilities by Using Windows Integrity Levels
2011-02-24/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Windows 7 / 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Problems
2011-02-23/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 out
2011-02-16/a>
Jason Lam
Windows 0-day SMB mrxsmb.dll vulnerability
2011-02-10/a>
Chris Mohan
Befriending Windows Security Log Events
2011-01-24/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Where have all the COM Ports Gone? - How enumerating COM ports led to me finding a “misplaced” Microsoft tool
2011-01-04/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Microsoft Advisory: Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine
2010-11-24/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Privilege escalation 0-day in almost all Windows versions
2010-08-02/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Securing Windows Internet Kiosk
2010-06-15/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability (CVE 2010-1885) exploit in the wild
2010-02-11/a>
Deborah Hale
The Mysterious Blue Screen
2009-11-14/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Microsoft advisory for Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote SMB DoS Exploit released
2009-11-12/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 Remote SMB Exploit
2009-10-24/a>
Marcus Sachs
Windows 7 - How is it doing?
2009-09-08/a>
Guy Bruneau
Vista/2008/Windows 7 SMB2 BSOD 0Day
2009-08-26/a>
Johannes Ullrich
WSUS 3.0 SP2 released
2009-07-16/a>
Guy Bruneau
Changes in Windows Security Center
2009-07-02/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Time to update updating on PCs for 3rd party apps
2009-04-16/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Strange Windows Event Log entry
2009-01-31/a>
Swa Frantzen
Windows 7 - not so secure ?
2008-08-15/a>
Jim Clausing
OMFW 2008 reflections
2008-06-12/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Safari on Windows - not looking good
2008-05-17/a>
Lorna Hutcheson
XP SP3 Issues
2008-05-06/a>
John Bambenek
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released
2008-05-01/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Windows XP SteadyState
2008-04-29/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Windows Service Pack blocker tool
2008-04-16/a>
William Stearns
Windows XP Service Pack 3 - unofficial schedule: Apr 21-28
2007-01-03/a>
Toby Kohlenberg
VLC Media Player udp URL handler Format String Vulnerability
8
2022-12-22/a>
Guy Bruneau
Exchange OWASSRF Exploited for Remote Code Execution
2022-09-06/a>
Didier Stevens
Analysis of an Encoded Cobalt Strike Beacon
2022-08-28/a>
Didier Stevens
Dealing With False Positives when Scanning Memory Dumps for Cobalt Strike Beacons
2022-05-13/a>
Johannes Ullrich
From 0-Day to Mirai: 7 days of BIG-IP Exploits
2022-05-11/a>
Brad Duncan
TA578 using thread-hijacked emails to push ISO files for Bumblebee malware
2022-04-28/a>
Johannes Ullrich
A Day of SMB: What does our SMB/RPC Honeypot see? CVE-2022-26809
2022-04-14/a>
Johannes Ullrich
An Update on CVE-2022-26809 - MSRPC Vulnerabliity - PATCH NOW
2021-12-14/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Log4j: Getting ready for the long haul (CVE-2021-44228)
2021-07-18/a>
Didier Stevens
Video: CyberChef BASE85 Decoding
2021-07-17/a>
Didier Stevens
BASE85 Decoding With base64dump.py
2021-07-16/a>
Xavier Mertens
Multiple BaseXX Obfuscations
2021-02-24/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushes GuLoader for Remcos RAT
2020-12-18/a>
Jan Kopriva
A slightly optimistic tale of how patching went for CVE-2019-19781
2020-10-29/a>
Johannes Ullrich
PATCH NOW: CVE-2020-14882 Weblogic Actively Exploited Against Honeypots
2020-08-08/a>
Guy Bruneau
Scanning Activity Include Netcat Listener
2020-05-14/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Patch Tuesday Revisited - CVE-2020-1048 isn't as "Medium" as MS Would Have You Believe
2020-01-13/a>
Didier Stevens
Citrix ADC Exploits: Overview of Observed Payloads
2020-01-11/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Citrix ADC Exploits are Public and Heavily Used. Attempts to Install Backdoor
2020-01-07/a>
Johannes Ullrich
A Quick Update on Scanning for CVE-2019-19781 (Citrix ADC / Gateway Vulnerability)
2019-11-06/a>
Brad Duncan
More malspam pushing Formbook
2019-07-18/a>
Rob VandenBrink
The Other Side of Critical Control 1: 802.1x Wired Network Access Controls
2019-05-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
An Update on the Microsoft Windows RDP "Bluekeep" Vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) [now with pcaps]
2019-03-09/a>
Guy Bruneau
A Comparison Study of SSH Port Activity - TCP 22 & 2222
2018-08-20/a>
Didier Stevens
OpenSSH user enumeration (CVE-2018-15473)
2018-05-22/a>
Guy Bruneau
VMware updates enable Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigations for Speculative Store Bypass issue - https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0012.html
2017-12-27/a>
Guy Bruneau
What are your Security Challenges for 2018?
2017-04-22/a>
Jim Clausing
WTF tcp port 81
2017-03-03/a>
Lorna Hutcheson
BitTorrent or Something Else?
2017-01-28/a>
Guy Bruneau
Request for Packets and Logs - TCP 5358
2016-10-22/a>
Guy Bruneau
Request for Packets TCP 4786 - CVE-2016-6385
2016-07-17/a>
Guy Bruneau
Juniper -> Junos: Self-signed certificate with spoofed trusted Issuer CN accepted as valid - https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10755&actp=search
2016-02-28/a>
Guy Bruneau
RFC 6598 - Carrier Grade NAT
2014-05-26/a>
Tony Carothers
NIST 800 Series Publications - New and Improved
2014-04-04/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows 8.1 Released
2014-02-27/a>
Richard Porter
DDoS and BCP 38
2013-11-09/a>
Guy Bruneau
IE Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploiting msvcrt.dll
2013-10-01/a>
John Bambenek
*Metaspoit Releases Module to Exploit Unpatched IE Vuln CVE-2013-3893
2013-09-20/a>
Russ McRee
Threat Level Yellow: Protection recommendations regarding Internet Explorer exploits in the wild
2013-09-18/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cisco DCNM Update Released
2013-09-17/a>
John Bambenek
Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Advisory for all Versions of Internet Explorer
2013-06-01/a>
Guy Bruneau
Exploit Sample for Win32/CVE-2012-0158
2013-05-20/a>
Guy Bruneau
Safe - Tools, Tactics and Techniques
2013-05-04/a>
Kevin Shortt
The Zero-Day Pendulum Swings
2013-04-21/a>
John Bambenek
A Chargen-based DDoS? Chargen is still a thing?
2013-02-19/a>
Johannes Ullrich
APT1, Unit 61398 and are state sponsored attacks real
2012-09-21/a>
Guy Bruneau
IE Cumulative Updates MS12-063 - KB2744842
2012-09-21/a>
Guy Bruneau
Update for Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 (2755801)
2012-09-17/a>
Rob VandenBrink
IE Zero Day is "For Real"
2012-07-25/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) released
2012-06-18/a>
Guy Bruneau
CVE-2012-1875 exploit is now available
2012-05-16/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Got Packets? Odd duplicate DNS replies from 10.x IP Addresses
2012-05-16/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Reserved IP Address Space Reminder
2012-05-06/a>
Jim Clausing
Tool updates and Win 8
2012-01-12/a>
Rob VandenBrink
PHP 5.39 was release on the 10th, amongst other things, it addresses CVE-2011-4885 (prevents attacks based on hash collisions) and CVE-2011-4566 (integer overflow when parsing invalid exif header)
2011-10-06/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Apache HTTP Server mod_proxy reverse proxy issue
2011-08-29/a>
Kevin Shortt
Internet Worm in the Wild
2011-08-25/a>
Kevin Shortt
Increased Traffic on Port 3389
2011-08-03/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Port 3389 / terminal services scans
2011-06-30/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Update for RSA Authentication Manager
2011-04-28/a>
Guy Bruneau
VMware ESXi 4.1 Security and Firmware Updates
2011-01-15/a>
Jim Clausing
What's up with port 8881?
2010-11-16/a>
Guy Bruneau
OpenSSL TLS Extension Parsing Race Condition
2010-09-13/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Adobe SING table parsing exploit (CVE-2010-2883) in the wild
2010-09-08/a>
John Bambenek
Adobe Acrobat/Reader 0-day in Wild, Adobe Issues Advisory
2010-07-29/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Snort 2.8.6.1 and Snort 2.9 Beta Released
2010-07-26/a>
Guy Bruneau
SophosLabs Released Free Tool to Validate Microsoft Shortcut
2010-07-20/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
LNK vulnerability now with Metasploit module implementing the WebDAV method
2010-06-15/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability (CVE 2010-1885) exploit in the wild
2010-03-10/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Microsoft re-release of KB973811 - attacks on Extended Protection for Authentication
2010-01-12/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
PoC for CVE-2009-0689 MacOS X 10.5/10.6 vulnerability
2009-11-14/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Microsoft advisory for Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote SMB DoS Exploit released
2009-11-12/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 Remote SMB Exploit
2009-10-30/a>
Rob VandenBrink
New version of NIST 800-41, Firewalls and Firewall Policy Guidelines
2009-10-25/a>
Lorna Hutcheson
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 25 - Port 80 and 443
2009-10-09/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 9 - Port 3389/tcp (RDP)
2009-10-06/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 6 ports 67&68 udp - bootp and dhcp
2009-08-28/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
WPA with TKIP done
2009-03-28/a>
Rick Wanner
New Beta release of Nmap
2009-03-27/a>
David Goldsmith
Firefox 3.0.8 Released
2009-03-24/a>
G. N. White
CanSecWest Pwn2Own: Would IE8 have been exploitable had the event waited one more day?
2009-03-19/a>
Mark Hofman
Brace yourselves - IE8 reported to be released
2009-03-19/a>
Mark Hofman
Browsers Tumble at CanSecWest
2009-02-13/a>
Andre Ludwig
Third party information on conficker
2009-01-12/a>
William Salusky
Downadup / Conficker - MS08-067 exploit and Windows domain account lockout
2008-11-04/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month 2008 - Summary and Links
2008-11-03/a>
Joel Esler
Day 34 -- Feeding The Lessons Learned Back to the Preparation Phase
2008-11-02/a>
Mari Nichols
Day 33 - Working with Management to Improve Processes
2008-11-01/a>
Koon Yaw Tan
Day 32 - What Should I Make Public?
2008-10-31/a>
Rick Wanner
Day 31 - Legal Awareness
2008-10-30/a>
Kevin Liston
Day 30 - Applying Patches and Updates
2008-10-29/a>
Deborah Hale
Day 29 - Should I Switch Software Vendors?
2008-10-28/a>
Jason Lam
Day 28 - Avoiding Finger Pointing and the Blame Game
2008-10-27/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Day 27 - Validation via Vulnerability Scanning
2008-10-25/a>
Koon Yaw Tan
Day 25 - Finding and Removing Hidden Files and Directories
2008-10-25/a>
Rick Wanner
Day 26 - Restoring Systems from Backup
2008-10-24/a>
Stephen Hall
Day 24 - Cleaning Email Servers and Clients
2008-10-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Day 22 - Wiping Disks and Media
2008-10-22/a>
Chris Carboni
Day 23 - Turning off Unused Services
2008-10-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Day 21 - Removing Bots, Keyloggers, and Spyware
2008-10-20/a>
Raul Siles
Day 20 - Eradicating a Rootkit
2008-10-19/a>
Lorna Hutcheson
Day 19 - Eradication: Forensic Analysis Tools - What Happened?
2008-10-17/a>
Patrick Nolan
Day 17 - Containing a DNS Hijacking
2008-10-17/a>
Rick Wanner
Day 18 - Containing Other Incidents
2008-10-16/a>
Mark Hofman
Day 16 - Containing a Malware Outbreak
2008-10-15/a>
Rick Wanner
Day 15 - Containing the Damage From a Lost or Stolen Laptop
2008-10-14/a>
Swa Frantzen
Day 14 - Containment: a Personal IdentityTheft Incident
2008-10-13/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Day 13 - Containment: Containing on Production Systems Such as a Web Server
2008-10-12/a>
Mari Nichols
Day 12 Containment: Gathering Evidence That Can be Used in Court
2008-10-11/a>
Stephen Hall
Day 11 - Identification: Other Methods of Identifying an Incident
2008-10-10/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 10 - Identification: Using Your Help Desk to Identify Security Incidents
2008-10-09/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 9 - Identification: Log and Audit Analysis
2008-10-08/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Day 8 - Global Incident Awareness
2008-10-07/a>
Kyle Haugsness
Day 7 - Identification: Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems
2008-10-06/a>
Jim Clausing
Day 6 - Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems
2008-10-05/a>
Stephen Hall
Day 5 - Identification: Events versus Incidents
2008-10-04/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 4 - Preparation: What Goes Into a Response Kit
2008-10-03/a>
Jason Lam
Day 3 - Preparation: Building Checklists
2008-10-02/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 2 - Preparation: Building a Response Team
2008-10-01/a>
Marcus Sachs
Day 1 - Preparation: Policies, Management Support, and User Awareness
2008-09-30/a>
Marcus Sachs
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Daily Topics
2008-08-22/a>
Patrick Nolan
MS08-051 V2.0 Patch issued August 20, 2008
2008-08-15/a>
Jim Clausing
Another MS update that may have escaped notice
2008-04-10/a>
Deborah Hale
Symantec Threatcon Level 2
2006-09-19/a>
Swa Frantzen
Yet another MSIE 0-day: VML
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