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ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 21st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10062, (Fri, Aug 21st)
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Even MOAR Powershell, looking at Entra logins – the good, the bad and the password sprays, (Fri, Aug 21st)
One thing that folks never seem to do after “going to the CLOOOOUUUUD” is to look at their logs, logs that they would have checked daily when things were on premise. One log that really bears looking at is the log of successful and failed logins. the call for that is: # import needed, if…
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Using Microsoft Graph and Powershell – Risk Detection Commands, (Thu, Aug 20th)
Building on the last diary on Using MS Graph and Powershell, let’s look at “Risky” logins. Risky logins are a derived set of parameters that look at various (you guessed it) risky login parameters. What is considered a risk? In most cases this is either impossible geography – in other words “we’re not expecting to…
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Using Microsoft Graph and Powershell to Mine for Information – Stale Accounts and Licenses, (Thu, Aug 20th)
Microsoft Graph is a newer API that is meant to replace several others. OK, it’s at version 2.3.9, so it’s not all that new, but it’s new enough that lots of folks (and commercial tools) aren’t using it yet. It allows you to Get and Set info from/to M365, Entra Users and Entra managed machines…
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, August 20th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10060, (Thu, Aug 20th)
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Simple Scans for Cloud Metadata Service, (Wed, Aug 19th)
Cloud providers typically expose a REST API at 169.254.169.254 that allows code running on virtual machines to retrieve machine-specific data. Some of the data is more or less harmless, such as the region the machine is running in or its MAC and IP addresses. However, the service may also be used to retrieve credentials for IAM…
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 19th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10058, (Wed, Aug 19th)
(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 Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10056, (Tue, Aug 18th)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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Apple Patches iOS and macOS, (Mon, Aug 17th)
Apple today released updates for iOS/iPadOS (26 and 18) and macOS 26. This update fixes 108 vulnerabilities and comes about two weeks after the much smaller macOS update that addressed the single screen-sharing vulnerability. This vulnerability did not affect iOS/iPadOS. None of the vulnerabilities has been exploited so far. There are a few WebKit vulnerabilities, but no standalone…
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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…
