Category: SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

An unusual “shy z-wasp” phishing, (Mon, Jan 27th)

Threat actors who send out phishing messages have long ago learned that zero-width characters and unrendered HTML entities can be quite useful to them. Inserting a zero-width character into a hyperlink can be used to bypass some URL security checks…

XSS Attempts via E-Mail, (Thu, Jan 23rd)

One of the hardest applications to create securely is webmail. E-mail is a complex standard, and almost all e-mail sent today uses HTML. Displaying complex HTML received in an e-mail within a web application is dangerous and often leads to…

Geolocation and Starlink, (Tue, Jan 21st)

Until now, satellite internet access has been more of a niche solution for internet access. But with the wide availability of Starlink, this is changing. Starlink's performance and price are competitive for many rural users to forgo solutions like cellular…

Partial ZIP File Downloads, (Mon, Jan 20th)

Say you want a file that is inside a huge online ZIP file (several gigabytes large). Downloading the complete ZIP file would take too long. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original…

New tool: immutable.py, (Sat, Jan 18th)

When performing triage on a Linux system you suspect might be compromised, there are many aspects of the system that you may want to look at. In SANS FOR577, we talk about some existing tools and even writing your own…