

SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast (Stormcast)
Johannes B. Ullrich
A brief daily summary of what is important in information security. The podcast is published every weekday and designed to get you ready for the day with a brief, usually 5 minute long, summary of current network security related events. The content is late breaking, educational and based on listener input as well as on input received by the SANS Internet Stormcenter. You may submit questions and comments via our contact form at https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html .
Episodes
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Sep 7, 2023 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Security Related DNS Records
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Security%20Relevant%20DNS%20Records/30194
Microsoft Reveleas Details about Key Loss
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/
September Android Updates
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2023-09-01
Google Chrome Update
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Atlas VPN Tunnel Termination Vulnerability
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/167f16e/atlasvpn_linux_client_103_remote_disconnect/

Sep 6, 2023 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
Common Usernames Submitted to Honeypots
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Common%20usernames%20submitted%20to%20honeypots/30188
TPM LUKS Bypass
https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/tpm-luks-bypass
Cross Tenant Impersonation Prevention and Detection
https://sec.okta.com/articles/2023/08/cross-tenant-impersonation-prevention-and-detection

Sep 5, 2023 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
What is the Origin of Passwords Submitted to Honeypots
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/What%20is%20the%20origin%20of%20passwords%20submitted%20to%20honeypots%3F/30182
Creating a YARA Rule to Detect Obfuscated Strings
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Creating%20a%20YARA%20Rule%20to%20Detect%20Obfuscated%20Strings/30186
VMware Aria Operations for Networks Hardcoded Keys 2023-34039
https://summoning.team/blog/vmware-vrealize-network-insight-rce-cve-2023-34039/
https://github.com/sinsinology/CVE-2023-34039/
Windows will Disable TLS 1.0/1.1
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/windows-message-center

Sep 1, 2023 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Friday, September 1st, 2023
The podcast discusses the low cost of cybercrime, GitHub Action vulnerabilities, exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs, Splunk vulnerabilities, and issues with top-level domains. They also talk about simple phishing attacks, the effectiveness of disguised HTML pages, and challenges in supply chain security. Additionally, they mention a recent VPN attack, misconfigurations in top-level domains, and an event announcement.

Aug 31, 2023 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, August 31st, 2023
The hosts discuss hurricane preparedness for home offices and small businesses. They also cover a remote code execution vulnerability in Notepad++. In addition, they talk about recent security vulnerabilities in Winrar and Seven-SIP. Lastly, they touch on the issues with BGP error processing.

Aug 30, 2023 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
Topics discussed include survival time for web sites, PDF/ActiveMime Polyglot Maldocs, RocketMQ vulnerability exploitation, and ManageEngine vulnerability. The podcast also explores the concept of certificate transparency and its implications, as well as a new technique of embedding Word documents in PDFs.

Aug 29, 2023 • 7min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, August 29th, 2023
The podcast discusses the WinRAR vulnerability, Juniper's out of cycle fix for OS vulnerabilities, and Microsoft's extended protection for Exchange servers. It also covers the presence of malicious packages in Rust and announces upcoming travel plans to London and a community evening event.

Aug 28, 2023 • 7min
ISC StormCast for Monday, August 28th, 2023
Topics discussed include malware using Postgres for covert communication, tips for identifying network connections, limitations of CVEs and CVSS scoring system, certificate authority revocation, and malicious NPM package.

Aug 25, 2023 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Friday, August 25th, 2023
The podcast covers topics such as creating a 'QWERTY' keyboard walk password generator with ChatGPT, the FBI's warning about persistent barracuda backdoors, and an authentication bypass vulnerability in Ivanti Sentry. It also discusses the dropping of Whiffy Recon WiFi scanning and geolocation malware by Smoke Loader.

Aug 24, 2023 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, August 24th, 2023
Topics discussed include exotic Excel files dropping AgentTesla, WinRAR vulnerability being exploited, Aruba vulnerabilities, new attacks targeting Excel users, Winrar vulnerability exploitation, malware attacks on stock traders, and network vulnerabilities


