Fortinet FortiGuard Blog: The Evolution of the Financial Services CIO Since Y2K
The role of the chief information officer (CIO) has undergone substantial changes in less than two decades, progressing from a rare position within an organization to the heart of the executive...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Increase in Protocol 47 denys,...
ISC reader Scott has indicated that starting on December 27th he has seen a significant increase in Protocol 47 traffic being denied by his firewalls. He has seen this trafficincreasing from a baseline...
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ArsTechnica: Security Content: Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions...
Enlarge/ Obama just left Donald Trump a nice little inauguration present—a fresh pack of sanctions against Russia and evidence of Russian interference in the presidential election. (credit: Win...
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View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: More on Protocol 47 denys, (Thu,...
Following up on yesterdays diary on an increase in Protocol 47 traffic. Thanks to everyone who sent the ISC PCAPs and more information.Current speculation is the Protocol 47 uptick is backscatter from...
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KPNC: vulnerability in… WinCalc (Win7, x64)
I will never go out of business in this country. thanks to Microsoft. who would have thought that wincalcis vulnerable? I have not checked all systems yet, so this is my configuration: Windows 7...
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PandaLabs: PowerLocker
PowerLocker, also called PrisonLocker, is a new family of ransomware which in addition to encrypting files on the victim’s computer (as with other such malware) threatens to block users’ computers...
View ArticleLost In Security: Españoles por la BlackHat
Siguiendo con la estela del artículo publicado 'Españoles por la Phrack', vuelvo a la carga con un artículo parecido, pero en este caso sobre una de las conferencias de seguridad que más conoce la...
View ArticleLost In Security: El último superviviente (II) - iOS
En el pasado artículo estuvimos revisando los puntos débiles que tiene un malware a la hora de sobrevivir un reinicio del sistema, y nos centramos en OSX. Ahora toca el turno a iOS, que al ser una...
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Darknet - The Darkside: Wycheproof – Test Crypto Libraries Against Known Attacks
Project Wycheproof is a tool to test crypto libraries against known attacks. It is developed and maintained by members of Google Security Team, but it is not an official Google product. At Google, they...
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ArsTechnica: Security Content: White House fails to make case that Russian...
EnlargeTalk about disappointments. The US government's much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the...
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Ongoing Scans Below the Radar,...
With the rise of botnets like Mirai[1], we have seen ahuge increase of port scans to find new open ports like %%port:2323%% or later %%port:6789%%. If the classic %%port:80%% and %%port:23%% remain"...
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Infosec Events: Information Security Events For January
Here are information security events in North America this month: FloCon 2017 : January 9 to 12 in San Diego, CA, USA ICS Security Conference (S4x17) 2017 : January 10 to 12 in Miami Beach, FL, USA...
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McAfee Avert Labs: Taking a Look at W32/Ramnit
Today we’re going to take a look at an interesting file-infector virus. W32/Ramnit infects EXE, DLL and HTML files. That last one is right; W32/Ramnit also infects HTML files to replicate itself.Let’s...
View Articlehoneyblog: 2011 Honeynet Project Security Workshop Slides + Videos
The slides and videos from the 2011 Honeynet Project Security Workshop (Paris) are now available! You can get the material from http://www.honeynet.org/SecurityWorkshops/2011_Paris. About the...
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SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: py2exe Decompiling - Part 1,...
This malware sample is written in Python and compiled to a .exe file with py2exe (we also wrote diary entries about Python malware compiled with PyInstaller).Looking at the resources with pecheck.py,...
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Darknet - The Darkside: DAVScan – WebDAV Security Scanner
DAVScan is a quick and lightweight WebDAV security scanner designed to discover hidden files and folders on DAV enabled web servers. The scanner works by taking advantage of overly...
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