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Apple Screen Sharing Security, (Mon, Aug 17th)
About 20 years ago, with macOS 10.5 (Leopard), Apple introduced screen sharing. Apple did not invent a new protocol for screen sharing. Instead, it used the established VNC protocol. VNC is a pretty simple, unencrypted protocol using TCP port 5900. Historically, the protocol used a simple global password for authentication. Apple adapted the protocol for its…
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10054, (Mon, Aug 17th)
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Wireshark 4.6.8 Released, (Sun, Aug 16th)
Wireshark release 4.6.8 fixes 28 vulnerabilities and 25 bugs. Didier Stevens Senior handler blog.DidierStevens.com (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 14th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10052, (Fri, Aug 14th)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, August 13th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10050, (Thu, Aug 13th)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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Using Gemma4 with Ollama – Testing File Hash Analysis and Recommendations with AI, (Wed, Aug 12th)
In the past few weeks, I have been using Gemma4 as a Large Language Model (LLM) to see how useful it can be to analyze some of the malware hashes uploaded to the DShield sensor over the past 30 days and figure out how its recommendation can be considered useful about the activity my DShield…
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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)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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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)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
