And Here They Come Again: DNS Reflection Attacks, (Wed, Aug 10th)

I know I have written about this same attack before &#;x26;#;x5b;see here&#;x26;#;x5d;. But well, it just doesn&#;x26;#;39;t stop. There has been a continuous stream of these requests to our sensors ever since. Some of the currently preferred queries used:

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JSON All the Logs!, (Mon, Aug 8th)

My recent obsession has been creating all of my logs in JSON format. The reasons for that are pretty simple: I like to log with Elasticsearch, so creating JSON formatted logs makes working with Elasticsearch easier. Command line tools like &#;x26;#;39;jq&#;x26;#;39; make parsing JSON logs on the command line simpler than “good old” standard Syslog format and a string of &#;x26;#;39;cut,&#;x26;#;39; &#;x26;#;39;sed,&#;x26;#;39; and &#;x26;#;39;awk&#;x26;#;39; commands.

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TLP 2.0 is here, (Thu, Aug 4th)

Earlier this week, the global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams – or FIRST, as it is commonly known – published a new version of its Traffic Light Protocol standard[1]. The Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) is commonly used in the incident response community, as well as in the wider security space, to quickly and in a standardized way indicate any limitations on further sharing of any transferred information.

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