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Integrating VirusTotal within ELK

July 28, 2015 ELK, Security 2 comments

[This blogpost has also been published as a guest diary on isc.sans.org] Visualisation is a key when you need to keep control of what’s happening on networks which carry daily tons of malicious files. virustotal.com is a key player in fighting malwares on a daily basis. Not only, you can submit

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TweetSniff.py – a Python Tweets Grabber

December 23, 2014 ELK, Software 23 comments

For me, Twitter is not only a social network, it’s also a tool that I use daily to track and exchange news about information security with a large worldwide community of infosec profesionals. For a while, Twitter is my main source of information. When you are relying on a service

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Automatic MIME Parts Scanning with VirusTotal

December 15, 2014 ELK, Security 11 comments

Here is a Python script that I developed for my personal use: mime2vt.py. I decided to release it because I think it could be helpful for many of you. In 2012, I started a project called CuckooMX. The goal was to automatically scan attachments in emails with Cuckoo to find

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ownCloud & Elasticsearch Integration

September 8, 2014 ELK, Software 7 comments

For a while I left Dropbox and other cloud storage solutions and decided to host my own file exchange service based on owncloud.org. I’m using it to exchange files with my partners and customers and keep a full control of the service from A to Z. A major advantage of

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Check Point Firewall Logs and Logstash (ELK) Integration

August 28, 2014 ELK, Logs Management / SIEM 13 comments

It has been a while that I did not write an article on log management. Here is a quick how-to about the integration of Check Point firewall logs into ELK. For a while, this log management framework is gaining more and more popularity. ELK is based on three core components:

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RSS NVD Vulnerabilities Feed

  • CVE-2021-26701 (.net, .net_core) February 25, 2021
    .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2021-24112.
  • CVE-2021-24112 (.net, .net_core, mono, visual_studio_2019) February 25, 2021
    .NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2021-26701.
  • CVE-2021-1721 (.net, .net_core, powershell_core, visual_studio_2017, visual_studio_2019) February 25, 2021
    .NET Core and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
  • CVE-2021-3124 (custom_global_variables) February 25, 2021
    Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in form field in robust.systems product Custom Global Variables v 1.0.5 allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary code via the vars[0][name] field.
  • CVE-2021-21065 (bridge) February 25, 2021
    Adobe Bridge version 11.0 (and earlier) is affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability when parsing TTF files that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
  • CVE-2021-21066 (bridge) February 25, 2021
    Adobe Bridge version 11.0 (and earlier) is affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability when parsing TTF files that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
  • CVE-2021-21621 (support_core) February 24, 2021
    Jenkins Support Core Plugin 2.72 and earlier provides the serialized user authentication as part of the "About user (basic authentication details only)" information, which can include the session ID of the user creating the support bundle in some configurations.
  • CVE-2021-21620 (claim) February 24, 2021
    A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Jenkins Claim Plugin 2.18.1 and earlier allows attackers to change claims.
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