A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, we take a look at Creeper, the first computer worm, which was created 50 years ago - according to some sources, on this very day in 1971…

I’ve published version 1.2 of TriOp today. A bug was present in the 'add' mode in version 1.1, which resulted in incorrect behavior when parameterized queries were present in search files, and this update fixes it...

I’ve published version 1.1 of TriOp today. I’ve added CVEs for the recent Exchange vulnerabilities to the vulnerability search list, since Shodan is now capable of detecting systems affected by them. In response to a request from the CSIRT community, I’ve also added the option for use of arbitrary filter along with a list of parameters...

A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, we take a look at an interesting e-mail message carrying Qakbot downloader, which appeared to be sent in a response to a historical Full Disclosure mailing list post…

A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, we take a look at an interesting sample of Agent Tesla, which was hidden in the code of a legitimate historical anti-malware tool…

A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, we take a look at TriOp - my recently published tool, which enables anyone to periodically gather interesting data from Shodan.

A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, we take a look at an interesting BAT file from 2020, which turned out to be a downloader for the Mass Logger infostealer.

The last quarter of 2020 is behind us, which means it's time for another look at some of the interesting ports accessible on public IPs. This time however, we will take a look at how the internet changed during the whole of 2020, not just at the past 3 months...

A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, we take a look at the increse in support of TLS 1.3 by HTTPS servers and the decrease in support of SSL 2.0.

A Diary of mine was published today on the SANS Internet Storm Center. In this one, we take a look a small issue present in many anti-malware tools, which may be used to bypass file system level folder listing permissions.