Author Archives: SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

[This is a Guest Diary by Paul Olson, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]

Continue reading Hygiene, Hygiene, Hygiene! [Guest Diary], (Wed, Sep 11th)→

Since I’m interested in malicious Python scripts, I found multiple samples that rely on existing libraries. The most-known repository is probably pypi.org[1] that reports, as of today, 567,478 projects! Malware developers are like regular developers: They don’t want to reinvent the wheel and make their shopping across existing libraries to expand their scripts capabilities.

Continue reading Python Libraries Used for Malicious Purposes, (Wed, Sep 11th)→

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Today, Microsoft released its scheduled September set of patches. This update addresses 79 different vulnerabilities. Seven of these vulnerabilities are rated critical. Four vulnerabilities are already being exploited and have been made public.

Continue reading Microsoft September 2024 Patch Tuesday, (Tue, Sep 10th)→

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New IP address functions have been added in Wireshark 4.4 (if you use Wireshark on Windows, there&#;x26;#;39;s a bug in release 4.4.0: the DLL with these functions is missing, it will be included in release 4.4.1; all is fine with Linux and Mac versions of Wireshark).

Continue reading Wireshark 4.4’s IP Address Functions, (Mon, Sep 9th)→

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Here are more details on the power consumption of my desktop computer when I crack passwords (cfr diary entry “Quickie: Password Cracking & Energy“).

Continue reading Password Cracking & Energy: More Dedails, (Sun, Sep 8th)→

PythonScript is a Notepad++ plugin that provides a Python interpreter to edit Notepad++ documents.

Continue reading Python & Notepad++, (Sat, Sep 7th)→