Phishing e-mail spoofing SPF-enabled domain, (Thu, Oct 17th)

On Monday, I found what looked like a run-of-the-mill phishing e-mail in my malware quarantine. The “hook” it used was quite a common one – it was a fake DHL delivery notification inserted as an image into the body of the e-mail in an attempt to make user open its attachments.

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When MacOS Catalina Comes to Life: The First Few Minutes of Network Traffic From MacOS 10.15., (Mon, Oct 14th)

This post is continuing a series I started in April about network traffic from Windows 10. When dealing with network traffic, it is always good to know what is normal. As part of this series, I will investigate the first few minutes of network traffic from current operating systems. With macOS 10.15 Catalina just being released, I figured this might be an excellent next operating system to investigate.

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New VMware security advisory: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0016.html | Oracle quarterly patches bundle: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html, (Wed, Oct 16th)

Xavier Mertens (@xme)
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Security Monitoring: At Network or Host Level?, (Wed, Oct 16th)

Today, to reach a decent security maturity, the keyword remains “visibility”. There is nothing more frustrating than being blind about what&#;x26;#;39;s happening on a network or starting an investigation without any data (logs, events) to process. The question is: how to efficiently keep an eye on what&#;x26;#;39;s happening on your network? There are three key locations to collect data:

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