Exposed Azure Storage Containers, (Fri, May 7th)

A couple months ago, we already covered the topic of exposed Azure Blob Storage in two separate ISC diaries, “Exposed Blob Storage in Azure” and “Preventing Exposed Blob Storage in Azure“. The information therein is still relevant and valid, so if you are using Azure Storage, and haven&#;x26;#;39;t read these two diaries yet, please do.

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Alternative Ways To Perform Basic Tasks, (Thu, May 6th)

I like to spot techniques used by malware developers to perform basic tasks. We know the lolbins[1] that are pre-installed tools used to perform malicious activities. Many lolbins are used, for example, to download some content from the Internet. Some tools are so powerful that they can also be used to perform unexpected tasks. I found an interesting blog article[2] describing how to use curl to copy files!

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Quick and dirty Python: masscan, (Tue, May 4th)

Those who know me are aware that I am a recovering shell programmer. I have 35+ years of various shell scripts involving complicated code pipelines with grep, cut, sort, uniq, awk, input files, output files, redirects, pipes etc…cobbled together to get jobs done. None of it is elegant and little of it could be called pretty. The last couple of years I have been trying to ramp up on Python and am increasingly finding that these complicated shell code scripts can be elegantly implemented in Python. The resulting code is way easier to read and way more supportable.

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