

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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Dec 19, 2016 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Monday, December 19th 2016
Verizon Webmail XSS Exploit
https://randywestergren.com/persistent-xss-verizons-webmail-client/
Blocking Powershell Connections via Windows Firewall
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Blocking+Powershell+Connection+via+Windows+Firewall/21829/
Exploit Kits Delivering Cerber Ransomware
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/One+if+by+email+and+two+if+by+EK+The+Cerbers+are+coming/21823/
More Security Companies joining "No More Ransom"
https://www.nomoreransom.org
IT Contractor Trying to Take Over Radio Station
https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/12/16/kcohvtaylorfiling.pdf
Holiday Safe Computing Tips
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Holiday+Safe+Computing+Tips/21827/

Dec 16, 2016 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Friday, December 16th 2016
Domain Cops Malware Analysis
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Domaincop+malpsam/21821/
OS X Filevault Password Retrieval
http://blog.frizk.net/2016/12/filevault-password-retrieval.html
QEMU/Xen Vulnerability
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-199.html
DNS Changer Attacking Home Routers
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/home-routers-under-attack-malvertising-windows-android-devices

Dec 15, 2016 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, December 15th 2016
Malicious JavaScript Bypasses UAC
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/UAC+Bypass+in+JScript+Dropper/21813/
Skype Unauthorized API Access Blocked
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/A-Backdoor-in-Skype-for-Mac-OS-X/?page=1&year=0&month=0
Facebook Anounces Certificate Transparency Monitoring Tool
https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/introducing-our-certificate-transparency-monitoring-tool/1811919779048165
Another Tor Browser (and Firefox) Bug Fixed
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-608-released
Cheap Android Phones Arrive With Malware Preinstalled
https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=10345&lng=en
Exploit for Nagios
https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Command-Injection-CVE-2016-9565-2008-4796.html

Dec 14, 2016 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, December 14th 2016
Microsoft Patch Tuesday + Adobe Flash
https://isc.sans.edu/mspatchdays.html?viewday=2016-12-13
Apple Updates
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
More Netgear Products Vulnerable; Beta Patch Available
http://kb.netgear.com/000036386/CVE-2016-582384?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
iOS Profile Vulnerability PoC Available
https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2016110046

Dec 13, 2016 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, December 13th 2016
Apple Releases Patches for iOS/WatchOS and tvOS
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
Windows 8/10 Update Causing DHCP Problems
https://community.plus.net/t5/Broadband/Windows-8-10-Issues/m-p/1393675#M310992
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux Vulnerabilities
https://nation.state.actor/mcafee.html
Snowball Marketing for Ransomware
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-scheme-spread-popcorn-time-ransomware-get-chance-of-free-decryption-key/
Europol Arrests DDoS Miscreants
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/12/europol_arrests_34_ddos_kiddies/
5 Questions to Ask you IoT Vendor
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/5+Questions+to+Ask+your+IoT+Vendors+But+Do+Not+Expect+an+Answer/21807/

Dec 11, 2016 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Monday, December 12th 2016
Malware Uses NTP to Prevent Reverse Analsys
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Sleeping+VBS+Really+Wants+To+Sleep/21801/
PwC ACE Tool For SAP Introduces Security Vulnerability into SAP
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/33
Steganography Used to Hide Exploits in Images
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Steganography+in+Action+Image+Steganography+StegExpose/21803/
Netgear R7000 and R6400 Aribtrary Command Execution
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/582384
Holiday Hack Challenge
https://holidayhackchallenge.com

Dec 9, 2016 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Friday, December 9th 2016
Domaincops Malware
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Good+Cop+Bad+Cop+Domain+Cop/21795/
Yahoo Mail Persistent XSS
https://klikki.fi/adv/yahoo2.html
Trend Office Scan False Positives
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5gs2gv/anyone_else_also_affected_by_a_deleted/
Linux Privilege Escalation due ot af_packet.c race condition
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/607

Dec 8, 2016 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, December 8th 2016
Attackers are using AV Exclusion Lists to Bypass AV
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/07/clever_crims_using_av_exclusion_lists_as_malware_safe_harbour/
Android Update Patches "Dirty Cow"
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
"Goldeneye" Ransomware May Use Stolen Data For Realistic E-Mails
https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Goldeneye-nutzt-Informationen-vom-Arbeitsamt-fuer-aeusserst-gezielte-Angriffe-3564386.html
Firefox Cross Domain Cookie Vulnerability
https://insert-script.blogspot.ch/2016/12/firefox-svg-cross-domain-cookie.html

Dec 7, 2016 • 7min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, December 7th 2016
Attacking NoSQL Applications
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Attacking+NoSQL+applications/21787/
Heap Buffer Overflow in Encase Forensic Imager
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20161128-0_Guidance_Software_Encase_DoS_heap_buffer_overflow_vulnerabilities_v10.txt
Raspbian To Increase Default Security
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-security-update-for-raspbian-pixel/
SONY Camera Backdoor
https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20161206-0_Sony_IPELA_Engine_IP_Cameras_Backdoors_v10.txt
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Dec 6, 2016 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, December 6th 2016
Video Walk Through: Analysing Hancitor Malicious Document
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Hancitor+Maldoc+Videos/21783/
Rapid Distributed Credit Card Number Brute Forcing
http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/production/230123/19180242-D02E-47AC-BDB3-73C22D6E1FDB.pdf
Cloudflare Detecting Large DDoS Attacks Over Thanksgiving / Cyber Monday
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-daily-ddos-ten-days-of-massive-attacks/
Free Windows Tool to Harden Networks: SAMRi10
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SAMRi10-Hardening-Remote-48d94b5b
NY State Outlawing Automated Ticket Purchasing Software
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/S8123


