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Linux Kernel Process Accounting, (Wed, Aug 12th)
A couple of days ago, Xavier posted about Atuin to gain more insight into the command history. Atuin does a great job of better organizing what is usually handled by “bash_history” and collecting meaningful additional data. Our reader David commented that this can also be done quite well with Linux’s kernel process accounting feature, and I…
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 12th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10048, (Wed, Aug 12th)
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2026, (Tue, Aug 11th)
This month we got patches for 418 vulnerabilities. Of these, 62 are critical, 1 is being exploited in the wild, and 2 were publicly disclosed as zero-days. Notable fixes include Windows privilege escalation, container tampering, and critical QUIC and DNS Server remote code execution bugs. A few vulnerabilities worth mentioning: Windows Ancillary Function Driver for…
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10046, (Tue, Aug 11th)
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Scans for Solana (Surfpool?) Endpoints, (Mon, Aug 10th)
Solana is a crypto platform known for speed. Developers like it to develop distributed applications or to implement crypto payments. To interact with the blockchain, APIs are provided for developers. These APIs will either “speak” JSON or gRPC. One implementation often used for development is “surfpool,” which is used to test programs before deploying them…
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 10th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10044, (Mon, Aug 10th)
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Linux Shell Forensic: Let?s Dive Into Atuin!, (Fri, Aug 7th)
UNIX systems (including Linux) are well-known to record a lot of activities in many different locations. But there is one domain where they definitely lack of “modern” logging: shells. Most shells provide an historization of the typed commands through a flat file in the $HOME directory (ex: $HOME/.bash_history). They suffer of multiple problems: History is stored…
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 7th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10042, (Fri, Aug 7th)
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, August 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10040, (Thu, Aug 6th)
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![22 Seconds to Compromise: How Automated SSH Actors Move From Login to Persistence Before You Can Blink [Guest Diary], (Thu, Aug 6th)](/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Daryl_Jiminez_pic1-aXqm43.png)
22 Seconds to Compromise: How Automated SSH Actors Move From Login to Persistence Before You Can Blink [Guest Diary], (Thu, Aug 6th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Daryl Jiminez, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Introduction On May 23, 2026, a threat actor successfully authenticated to my Cowrie SSH honeypot using compromised credentials and, within 22 seconds, injected a backdoor SSH key, changed the root password, attempted to clear host-based access restrictions,…
