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ISC Handlers

Recent Diaries:

• Introduction to KAPE
• OWASP Top 10 Internet of Things 2018"
• Live memory analysis using Rekall
• Using AutorunsToWinEventLog
• [Wireshark-announce] Wireshark 2.5.1 is now available

John Bambenek is Vice-President of Security Research and Intelligence at ThreatSTOP where he leads the globally distributed research efforts for the company. In addition to his role there, he is a lecturer teaching cybersecurity courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Sciences and he is a handler with the SANS Internet Storm Center. He has spent 18 years in the industry helping research emerging threats and leading large-scale intelligence sharing communities to engage in targeted disruption of criminal activities online. He has developed a variety of techniques to conduct digital surveillance that is used to monitor domain generation algorithms and malware configurations which are used by thousands of organizations world-wide. In addition, he tracks financial transactions of various neonazi and supremacist individuals and organizations. He has spoken at conferences around the world, has published two books in addition to several book chapters and articles, and he once appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Recent Diaries:

• VMWare Security Advisory on DoS Vulnerability in ESXi
• MSFT July 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Solving the WHOIS and Privacy Problem: A Draft of Implementing WHOIS in DNS
• Are you Ready for DNS Flag Day?
• Sextortion Bitcoin on the Move

Guy has a B.A. (IT) from University of Quebec and holds the prestigious GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification as well as the GIAC GSEC(G), GCIA(G), GCIH(G), GCUX(G), GCFA, GPEN certifications.

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Recent Diaries:

• Maldoc XLS Invoice with Excel 4 Macros
• Honeypot - Scanning and Targeting Devices & Services
• VPN Access and Activity Monitoring
• Hazelcast IMDG Discover Scan
• SOAR or not to SOAR?

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Recent Diaries:

• Next up, what's up with TCP port 26?
• What's up with TCP 853 (DNS over TLS)?
• Buffer overflows found in libpcap and tcpdump
• A few Ghidra tips for IDA users, part 4 - function call graphs
• A few Ghidra tips for IDA users, part 3 - conversion, labels, and comments

Recent Diaries:

• A day in the life of a pentester, or is my job is too sexy for me?
• YASRV (Yet Another Struts RCE Vulnerability) yes a different one from yesterday
• Equifax breach
• Modern Web Application Penetration Testing , Hash Length Extension Attacks
• Struts vulnerability patch released by apache, patch now

Recent Diaries:

• Qakbot malspam sent from an infected Windows host
• Recent Dridex activity
• Trickbot gtag red5 distributed as a DLL file
• Hancitor distributed through coronavirus-themed malspam
• Malpsam pushes Ursnif through Italian language Word docs

Recent Diaries:

• After Action Review
• Visibility Gap of Your Security Tools
• What Assumptions Are You Making?
• Resolve to Be More Involved In Your Local Community - REVISITED
• Creative Hiring From Non-Traditional Places

Recent Diaries:

• Oracle Critical Patch Update Release
• Gate to Fiesta exploit kit on 94.242.216.69
• VMWare ESX/ESXi Security Advisory
• Defending Against Web Server Denial of Service Attacks
• ISC BIND DoS

Recent Diaries:

• Crashing explorer.exe with(out) a click
• Desktop.ini as a post-exploitation tool
• Secure vs. cleartext protocols - couple of interesting stats
• Quick look at a couple of current online scam campaigns
• Discovering contents of folders in Windows without permissions

Recent Diaries:

• My Honeypot is Trendy, My Honeypot is Unpopular
• Sensor Ideas for DEFCON
• Weblogic Exploit Code Made Public (CVE-2018-2893)
• Reporting Malicious Websites in 2018
• Request for Packets: Port 15454

Recent Diaries:

Renato Marinho is Chief Research Officer at Morphus Labs. His journey in the area began in 2001, when he created Nettion, one of the first firewalls to use the contemporary UTM (Unified Threat Management) concept. Experienced in cyber security, Marinho was internationally recognized in 2016 by his research that unveiled Mamba, the first full disk encryption ransomware. At Morphus Labs, he oversees research, innovation and development of new products. Master and PhD candidate in Applied Informatics, he is also professor at University of Fortaleza teaching Computer Forensics in the post-graduate course. He is also a speaker having presented at Ignite Cybersecurity Conference, BSides Delaware, BSides Vienna, WSKS Portugal and Brazilian CSIRTs Forum.

Recent Diaries:

• Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2020
• Citrix ADC Exploits Update
• Microsoft December 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Microsoft October 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Microsoft September 2019 Patch Tuesday

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Recent Diaries:

• Another Critical COVID-19 Shortage: Digital Security
• Chain Reactor: Simulate Adversary Behaviors on Linux
• DeepBlueCLI: Powershell Threat Hunting
• ISC Snapshot: Search with SauronEye
• visNetwork for Network Data

Xavier Mertens is a freelance cyber security consultant based in Belgium. Xavier started his own company (https://xavier.mertens.consulting) in 2013 to offer pentesting, incident handling and forensic services. He holds GIAC,GFCE, GCFA, GXPN & GREM certifications and is also CISSP and CISA. Xavier has a blog about security (https://blog.rootshell.be) and is co-organizer of the BruCON security conference (http://www.brucon.org).

Recent Diaries:

• Obfuscated with a Simple 0x0A
• Malicious JavaScript Dropping Payload in the Registry
• Very Large Sample as Evasion Technique?
• COVID-19 Themed Multistage Malware
• Critical SMBv3 Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution

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Recent Diaries:

• What is "THAT" Address Doing on my Network
• MSFT June 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Microsoft December 2018 Patch Tuesday
• OctoPrint 3D Web Interfaces: EXPOSED, Port 5000 default
• Back to Basics: Backups and Data Recovery "The Home Office Edition"

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

Mr. Santander Pelaez currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer of Puntos Colombia S.A.S. . in Medellin,Colombia. His areas of interest are Intrusion Detection, Computer Forensics, Incident Response, SCADA Security, Network Design and cyberwarfare.

Recent Diaries:

• SNMP service: still opened to the public and still queried by attackers
• Enumerating office365 users
• Merry christmas!
• Timely acquisition of network traffic evidence in the middle of an incident response procedure
• Gathering information to determine unusual network traffic

Recent Diaries:

• Windows 7 - End of Life
• CCPA - Quick Overview
• DVRIP Port 34567 - Uptick
• Curious SNMP Traffic Spike
• XOR DDOS Mitigation and Analysis

Didier Stevens (Microsoft MVP Consumer Security) holds many certifications from SANS, Microsoft, Cisco, ... He is a Senior Analyst (NVISO https://www.nviso.be). Didier started his own company in 2012 to provide IT security training services (http://DidierStevensLabs.com). You can find his open source security tools on his IT security related blog at https://blog.DidierStevens.com.

Recent Diaries:

• Password Protected Malicious Excel Files
• New Bypass Technique or Corrupt Word Document?
• Obfuscated Excel 4 Macros
• Covid19 Domain Classifier
• Windows Zeroday Actively Exploited: Type 1 Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Dr. Johannes Ullrich is the Dean of Research and a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute. In November of 2000, Johannes started the DShield.org project, which he later integrated into the Internet Storm Center. His work with the Internet Storm Center has been widely recognized. In 2004, Network World named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry. Secure Computing Magazine named him in 2005 one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers. His research interests include IPv6, Network Traffic Analysis and Secure Software Development. Johannes is regularly invited to speak at conferences and has been interviewed by major publications, radio as well as TV stations. He is a member of the SANS Technology Institute's Faculty and Administration as well as Curriculum and Long Range Planning Committee. As chief research officer for the SANS Institute, Johannes is currently responsible for the GIAC Gold program. Prior to working for SANS, Johannes worked as a lead support engineer for a Web development company and as a research physicist. Johannes holds a PhD in Physics from SUNY Albany and is located in Jacksonville, Florida. More Details: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesullrich

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Recent Diaries:

• Kwampirs Targeted Attacks Involving Healthcare Sector
• A Quick Summary of Current Reflective DNS DDoS Attacks
• Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2020
• Let's Encrypt Revoking 3 Million Certificates
• Introduction to EvtxEcmd (Evtx Explorer)

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Recent Diaries:

• VMware Patches for Bugs in DHCP Service (Workstation, Fusion, Horizon, VMRC)
• Not all Ethernet NICs are Created Equal - Trying to Capture Invalid Ethernet Frames
• Whodat? Enumerating Who "owns" a Workstation for IR
• Auth-mageddon deferred (but not averted), Microsoft LDAP Changes now slated for Q3Q4 2020
• March Patch Tuesday is Coming - the LDAP Changes will Change Your Life!

Recent Diaries:

• Bluekeep exploitation causing Bluekeep vulnerability scan to fail
• Sextortion: Follow the Money - The Final Chapter
• Scanning for Bluekeep vulnerable RDP instances
• OpSec and OSInt
• Sextortion: Follow the Money Part 3 - The cashout begins!

Recent Diaries:

• TPOT's Cowrie to ISC Logs
• Using Shodan Monitoring
• CVE-2019-0604 Attack
• Critical Cisco Wireless Patch for RV Series, CVE-2019-1663.
• Phishing impersonations

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Recent Diaries:

• Summing up CVE-2020-0601, or the Let?s Decrypt vulnerability
• Getting the best value out of security assessments
• Testing TLSv1.3 and supported ciphers
• Verifying SSL/TLS configuration (part 2)
• Verifying SSL/TLS configuration (part 1)