Did the recent malicious BlueKeep campaign have any positive impact when it comes to patching?, (Sun, Nov 10th)

After a news of “mass exploitation” of a specific vulnerability hits mainstream media, even organizations that don’t have a formal (or any) patch management process in place usually start to smell the ashes and try to quickly apply the relevant patches. Since media coverage of the recent BlueKeep campaign was quite extensive, I wondered whether the number of vulnerable machines would start diminishing significantly as a result.

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Microsoft Apps Diverted from Their Main Use, (Fri, Nov 8th)

This week, the CERT.eu[1] organized its yearly conference in Brussels. Across many interesting presentations, one of them covered what they called the “cat’n’mouse” game that Blue and Red teams are playing continuously. When the Blue team has detected an attack technique, they write a rule or implement a new control to detect or block it. Then, the Red team has to find an alternative attack path, and so one… A classic example is the detection of malicious via parent/child process relations. It’s quite common to implement the following simple rule (in Sigma[2] format):

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Getting the best value out of security assessments, (Thu, Nov 7th)

Since my day job is all about hacking, I get a lot of questions (and there appears to be a lot of confusion) about what a vulnerability scan, penetration test or red team assessment is.
&#;x26;#;xd; This article is my attempt to clear that a little bit – it was already published LeMagIT, but in French (https://www.lemagit.fr/tribune/Retirer-toute-la-valeur-des-evaluations-de-securite), so here&#;x26;#;39;s a version in English 🙂 With that said, here we go …

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