The Internet Storm Center and DShield websites are about 25 years old. Back in the day, I made some questionable decisions that I have never quite cleaned up later. One of these decisions was to use a “15 character 0-padded” format for IP addresses. This format padded each byte in the IP address with leading…
ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 22nd, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9582, (Fri, Aug 22nd) Source link
Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.5.6. Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.17. Update Thunderbird to 128.13.0. Fixed problems For more details, read our changelog. Get Tails 6.19 To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.19. If you cannot do…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, August 21st, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9580, (Thu, Aug 21st) Source link
Looking at new usernames collected by our Cowrie honeypots, you will first of all notice a number of HTTP headers. It is very common for attackers to scan for web servers on ports that are covered by our Telnet honeypots. The result is that HTTP request headers end up in our username and password database. …
In fast-moving cloud environments like AWS, security teams face an uncomfortable truth: not every EC2 instance is being scanned, existing tools don’t work across a diverse environment that includes long-lived and ephemeral assets, and visibility is never complete. Qualys research found that over 30% of virtual machines have high or critical vulnerabilities, and with blind…
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9578, (Wed, Aug 20th) Source link
Tor Browser 14.5.6 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version includes important security updates to Firefox. Send us your feedback If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this release, please let us know. Full changelog The full changelog…
I noticed an increase in scans that appear to try to identify Elasticsearch instances. Elasticsearch is not a new target. Its ability to easily store and manage JSON data, combined with a simple HTTP API, makes it a convenient tool to store data that is directly accessible from the browser via JavaScript. Elasticsearch has, in…
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9576, (Tue, Aug 19th) Source link
