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Port 51616 – Got Packets?, (Sun, May 19th)

We're looking for any info or packets that target port 51616.   After witnessing a spike yesterday on his network and checking that our port data [1] corroborated his event, Andrew has written in asking what we know.

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SSL: Another reason not to ignore IPv6, (Fri, May 17th)

Currently, many public web sites that allow access via IPv6 do so via proxies. This is seen as the “quick fix”, as it requires minimum changes to the site itself. As far as the web application is concerned, all incoming traffic is IPv4.  The most obvious issue here is logging, in that the application only “sees” the proxies IP address, unless it inspects headers added by the proxy, which will no point to (unreadable?) IPv6 addresses.

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Extracting signatures from Apple .apps, (Thu, May 16th)

As an add-on to ISC Handler Lenny Zeltser's earlier diary on extracting certificates from signed Windows binaries, here's how to do the same on a Mac. Given that today's blog over at F-Secure documents a screenshot-taking Mac spyware that is signed with a developer ID, signed bad .apps might actually be more prevalent than expected

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Microsoft Security Advisory overview, (Tue, May 14th)

Malware Protection Engine Microsoft released  security advisory 2846338 indicating that they have update their Malware Protection Engine (used in a varierty of their anti malware products) to fix a vulnerability in said engine where an attacker would be able to execute random code in the context of LocalSytem. Micorosft claims the vulnerability was publicly disclosed as a DoS.

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Firefox & Thunderbird released, (Tue, May 14th)

Mozilla decided to join the mayhem on Black Tuesday this month and released Firefox and Thunderbird. This updates to: Firefox 21.0 Firefox ESR 17.0.6 Thunderbird 17.0.6 Thunderbird ESR 17.0.6 Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html Security content o fthe updates: MFSA 2013-48 Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer CVE-2013-1676 , CVE-2013-1677 , CVE-2013-1678 , CVE-2013-1679 , CVE-2013-1680 and CVE-2013-1681 MFSA 2013-47 Uninitialized functions in DOMSVGZoomEvent CVE-2013-1675 MFSA 2013-46 Use-after-free with video and onresize event CVE-2013-1674 MFSA 2013-45 Mozilla Updater fails to update some Windows Registry entries CVE-2013-1673 and CVE-2012-1942 MFSA 2013-44 Local privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service CVE-2013-1672 MFSA 2013-43 File input control has access to full path CVE-2013-1671 MFSA 2013-42 Privileged access for content level constructor CVE-2013-1670 MFSA 2013-41 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:21.0 / rv:17.0.6) CVE-2013-0801 and CVE-2013-1669   — Swa Frantzen — Section 66 (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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Adobe May 2013 Black Tuesday Overview, (Tue, May 14th)

Adobe released their May 2013 Black Tueday bulletins : # Affected CVE Adobe rating APSB13-13 ColdFusion CVE-2013-1387 CVE-2013-1388 Critical APSB13-14 Flash Player and AIR CVE-2013-2728 CVE-2013-3324 CVE-2013-3325 CVE-2013-3326 CVE-2013-3327 CVE-2013-3328 CVE-2013-3329 CVE-2013-3330 CVE-2013-3331 CVE-2013-3332 CVE-2013-3333 CVE-2013-3334 CVE-2013-3335 Critical APSB13-15 Reader and Acrobat CVE-2013-2549 CVE-2013-2550 CVE-2013-2718 CVE-2013-2719 CVE-2013-2720 CVE-2013-2721 CVE-2013-2722 CVE-2013-2723 CVE-2013-2724 CVE-2013-2725 CVE-2013-2726 CVE-2013-2727 CVE-2013-2729 CVE-2013-2730 CVE-2013-2731 CVE-2013-2732 CVE-2013-2733 CVE-2013-2734 CVE-2013-2735 CVE-2013-2736 CVE-2013-2737 CVE-2013-3337 CVE-2013-3338 CVE-2013-3339 CVE-2013-3340 CVE-2013-3341 CVE-2013-3342 Critical — Swa Frantzen — Section 66 (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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So what passwords are those ssh scanners trying?, (Tue, May 14th)

If you run an ssh server (especially if you still run it on the default port), you've no doubt had plenty of folks scan your machine and do password guessing attacks against it.  BTW, you'll never get in mine that way, I only allow public/private key authentication, but that is beside the point here.  I've done a couple of other reports analyzing passwords, and I really like pipal by Robin Wood for much of the analysis (you can grab it from here ).  I've been running a kippo ssh honeypot for the day job for about 2 years and I've done a couple of reports on the password guesses for the ThreatTraq webcast, but then I discovered that in addition to firewall logs and the 404 logs, we also collect kippo logs here at the SANS Internet Storm Center.  Ooh, more data!!  If you'd like contribute, please grab https://isc.sans.edu/kipposcript.pl .  So, without further ado, here is what I've found in our kippo data (as of about 15 April 2013).  I should note here, though, that these are the guesses the bad guys are making.  They've developed their lists most likely based on what has worked for someone at some point, so they will be somewhat different from what you find in analyzing passwords from breaches like my analysis of last year's Yahoo breach .

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Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday Pre-Release, (Fri, May 10th)

Both Adobe and Microsoft released pre-anouncements for next week's patch Tuesday.

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Adobe Releases 0-day Security Advisory for Coldfusion, Exploit Code Available. Advisory here:…

— John Bambenek bambenek at gmail /dot/ com Bambenek Consulting (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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"De Flashing" the ISC Web Site and Flash XSS issues, (Wed, May 8th)

You may have noticed that earlier today, I removed the flash player that we use to play audio files on our site. The trigger for this was a report that the particular flash player we use (an open source player usually used with Wordpress) is suscepible to cross site scripting [1][2]. Instead of upgrading to the newer (patched) version, we instead decided to remove the player.  The other part of this is that pretty much all current browsers do have reasonable support for HTML 5 audio tags.

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