On this day in 2009 the very first release of Security Onion hit the Internet. A lot has changed since then, but it's still the best free and open solution to help you peel back the layers of your network and see what's really happening.
IRFlow Timeline v1.0.7 is live.
This one focuses on a problem I think DFIR teams will see more often: AI assistant usage becoming part of the investigation surface.
You can now collect and normalize local AI usage history from tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT Desktop, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Continue, Windsurf, and Claude Desktop into a unified timeline view.
Also added AI Secret Hunt, which helps identify secrets, tokens, API keys, private keys, and credentials that may have been pasted into AI assistants during real investigations or day-to-day engineering work.
The goal is simple: make AI app activity easier to preserve, search, tag, and correlate during incident response. AI usage is becoming part of the forensic record. We need tooling that treats it that way.
Link in the comment ⬇️
#DFIR #IncidentResponse
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱. 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀!
Launch a disposable Elastic or Splunk lab, run controlled adversary emulation, hunt the telemetry, and validate detection ideas against observed events.
𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘅 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀:
- 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝘀: Sysmon, Windows event logs, FLARE VM tooling, and Elastic Defend EDR when using Elastic environments.
- 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘅 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝘀: Sysmon for Linux, auditd, syslog, and Elastic Defend EDR when using Elastic environments.
- 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝘀: a Kali attacker box equipped with Sliver, PoshC2, Merlin, and other tooling so you can test C2 workflows and detections hands-on in a controlled lab.
Navigate to the Atomic catalog, run an approved emulation with one click, inspect the resulting telemetry in your SIEM, or access the target host yourself and experiment as much as you want.
Run. Hunt. Validate.
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10 LINKS THAT WILL CHANGE HOW YOU LOOK AT THE INTERNET FOREVER.
Save this list. Most people will never see it.
1. https://t.co/UnDnW16EM2
Shows every data breach your email has ever leaked in.
2. https://t.co/DWPtjQdmaY
Reveals every social profile and login tied to any email address.
3. https://t.co/b0di40J0mR
Tells you how trackable your browser fingerprint really is.
4. https://t.co/3oOgXHyaCp
Checks if your VPN is actually working or silently exposing your real IP.
5. https://t.co/M49l1nqMGf
Direct links to delete your account from any major service.
6. https://t.co/s6MXurFwoY
Scans any file or link against 70+ antivirus engines in seconds.
7. https://t.co/LHTmczBjTS
Shows if your face was used to train AI models without consent.
8. https://t.co/rF6OanX5a0
Exposes every piece of data your browser leaks to websites.
9. https://t.co/2AUNi4oSDr
Tells you which apps on your PC are bloatware or spyware.
10. https://t.co/7SLjuIK4GR
Removes paywalls from news sites so reading stays free.
Thanks me later.
Our printed documentation book has been updated for Security Onion 3.1 and is available from Amazon now!
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Conditional Access policies won’t stop token theft—and standard MFA won't fix it either.
When teams roll out Microsoft Authenticator push codes or SMS, some assume the cloud perimeter is safe. But sophisticated actors have moved completely past brute-forcing passwords. They use Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing frameworks like Evilginx.
The attack flow is clean: The proxy site mirrors your Entra ID login page. The user enters credentials and solves the genuine MFA challenge.
Once Entra ID validates the session, it issues an ESTSAUTH session cookie. The malicious proxy server snatches that cookie before passing it back to the victim’s browser.
The Result: The attacker drops that stolen cookie into their own machine. Because the session has already passed the MFA verification loop, they gain instant access to the mailbox or cloud apps. They bypass standard Conditional Access rules seamlessly.
, when an identical session jumps between network or device contexts
Advanced features like Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE), Token Protection session controls, or strict device compliance rules can mitigate this. But they are rarely part of an organization’s "default" browser-based setups.
Because a stolen token completely bypasses the sign-in loop, you cannot hunt for it by looking for failed logins. You have to hunt for Session Anomalies—specifically when an identical session jumps network or device context mid-lifecycle.
From Sentinel or Entra ID Advanced Hunting, you can run the below KQL query to identify active token replays across interactive and non-interactive sign-ins:
10 GitHub repos that should be illegal — they're killing $50 billion in corporate revenue.
SAVE IT
1. yt-dlp
Downloads any video from YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram, anywhere. YouTube Premium charges $14 a month to do less than this. It is 100% free.
Repo → https://t.co/TaRtkcd4qy
2. Ollama
Run GPT-4-class AI on your laptop. No API costs. Developers spend $500 a month on OpenAI for what Ollama runs offline for $0.
Repo → https://t.co/gyZhUdzsnZ
3. Fooocus
Midjourney-quality image generation on your own GPU. Midjourney charges $30 a month. Fooocus runs unlimited generations for free.
Repo → https://t.co/NDPJpIdYJs
4. Whisper
OpenAI's transcription model, open-sourced. Otter charges $20 a month for what Whisper does for free, in 99 languages.
Repo → https://t.co/blaJ4i4MnH
5. Plausible Analytics
Privacy-first Google Analytics replacement. Google Analytics 360 costs $150,000 a year for enterprises. Plausible self-hosted costs $0.
Repo → https://t.co/RFrcpqTBQ7
6. AppFlowy
Open-source Notion. Notion charges $20 per user per month for teams. AppFlowy runs unlimited users on your server for free.
Repo → https://t.co/IDMykTCkMU
7. Penpot
Open-source Figma. Figma charges $45 per editor per month. Penpot does the same job, self-hosted, free forever.
Repo → https://t.co/Lx1CYUP4p4
8. n8n
Open-source Zapier. Zapier Pro costs $600 a month for a real workflow. n8n self-hosted runs unlimited automations for $0.
Repo → https://t.co/hdycABGGc1
9. Cal .com
Open-source Calendly. Calendly Teams costs $16 per user per month. Cal. com is free for individuals and open source for teams.
Repo → https://t.co/haz8ihRsHm
10. Bitwarden
Open-source 1Password. Password managers charge $8 per user. Bitwarden is unlimited, forever, free.
Repo → https://t.co/XCZ2JtWqWQ
Here's the wildest part:
That's $50 billion in corporate revenue these repos are quietly destroying every single year.
None of these are illegal.
All of them should be.
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Security Onion 3.1.0 is now available and includes new features, updated components, and many quality-of-life improvements!
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#Breaking
"Highly misconceived. Bereft of any merit."
Delhi High Court rejects PIL to deregister AAP and bar Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Durgesh Pathak from contesting elections for boycotting excise policy case proceedings before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma.
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Big moment for Nextron, and for me personally
The first version of our scanner ran in December 2012. Back then it was still a tool for consulting and incident response cases. We founded @nextronsystems in 2017 with around 35 customers. Today it’s more than 550.
Most of that growth happened organically. Word of mouth, customer trust, posts on Twitter, and a lot of steady work on the product.
Maybe a fairly German way to build a company: spend what you earn, focus on the substance, care more about what’s inside the box than the box itself.
We were not always great at explaining that box, though. Sometimes we were probably a bit clumsy in how we communicated what the products can do and where they fit best 🙂
That also means there is still a lot we can improve around the product: clearer communication, better channels, better integrations, better support and a more professional setup for international growth.
That’s why I’m genuinely happy that Eurazeo / Elevate is joining us for the next phase.
Nextron has always been strongest where standard tools have blind spots: forensic scanning, compromise assessment, unusual systems, backup data, forensic images and environments where you cannot just install another agent.
Thanks to the Nextron team, our customers, partners and everyone who helped us get here.
Now we keep building.
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GOOGLE JUST SHIPPED ITS ENTIRE 2026 ROADMAP IN ONE KEYNOTE
Gemini 3.5 Flash → new flagship. frontier brain, agentic, beats 3.1 pro, 4x faster
Gemini 3.5 Pro → the bigger one, drops next month
Gemini Omni → any input in, editable VIDEO out
Gemini Spark → a personal agent that actually DOES things across your apps
Daily Brief → your morning, pre-read from gmail, calendar and tasks
Neural Expressive → the gemini app got a full redesign
Universal Cart → one agentic cart across gemini, youtube and gmail
Information Agents → search that monitors the web 24/7 FOR you
Intelligent Search Box → expands as you type for real conversations
Search Mini Apps → build your own dashboards inside search
AI Mode → now fully running on gemini 3.5 flash
Gmail Live → talk to your inbox
Docs Live → write and edit docs by voice
AI Inbox → gmail, organized by ai
Google Keep → speak freely, it cleans it into notes
Google Pics → a brand new ai image and design app
Ask YouTube → search the ENTIRE youtube catalogue with answers
Android XR Glasses → "intelligent eyewear," audio glasses this fall
Android Halo → a live strip showing what your agent is doing
Antigravity 2.0 → the agent-first dev platform, upgraded
Flow + Flow Music → now standalone mobile apps
Yes. Attackers can create hidden admin accounts on Windows that fly completely under the radar.
The most common method is registry manipulation. By modifying a specific key under HKLM\SAM, they can create an account that doesn’t appear on the login screen or in normal user management tools. It shows up nowhere a regular user would look.
Another approach is cloning an existing account. Attackers copy the RID of a legitimate admin account onto a low-privilege or guest account. On the surface it looks harmless. Under the hood it has full admin rights.
Net user commands can also create accounts that blend in with system defaults, especially if named something generic like $ appended accounts, which Windows hides from standard directory listings by design.
How to actually catch it:
Run net user and wmic useraccount list full and compare results. Discrepancies are a red flag. Check the SAM registry directly or use tools like Autoruns and GMER. Review Event ID 4720 (account created) and 4728/4732 (group membership changes) in the Security event log.
Most people never check. That’s exactly why it works.
Microsoft just confirmed CVE-2026-42897 is being actively exploited in the wild.
The target? Outlook Web Access.
No malicious link. No attachment. Just open the email.
I broke down exactly how the attack works 👇
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50 WEBSITES THAT FEEL ILLEGAL TO KNOW ABOUT
1. cobalt. tools — download any video from socials
2. photopea. com — Photoshop but completely free
3. temp-mail. org — disposable email in one click
4. tinywow. com — 100+ free tools in one site
5. archive. org — access any old webpage ever
6. libgen. li — millions of free textbooks
7. sci-hub. al — free research papers
8. alternativeto. net — find free app alternatives
9. justwatch. com — find where to stream anything
10. gutenberg. org — 70K free classic books
11. pdfdrive. com — free PDF downloads
12. openculture. com — free courses from top unis
13. wolframalpha. com — solve any math instantly
14. remove. bg — remove backgrounds in one click
15. cleanup. pictures — erase objects from photos
16. unscreen. com — remove video backgrounds free
17. squoosh. app — compress any image free
18. excalidraw. com — hand drawn diagrams free
19. carbon. now. sh — turn code into beautiful art
20. ray. so — stunning code screenshots
21. flightradar24. com — track any flight in real time
22. camelcamelcamel. com — track Amazon price history
23. haveibeenpwned. com — check if you were hacked
24. virustotal. com — scan any file for malware
25. privnote. com — send self destructing messages
26. file. io — share files that auto delete
27. archive. ph — save any webpage forever
28. accountkiller. com — delete yourself from any site
29. radio. garden — listen to any radio worldwide
30. tunefind. com — find songs from any show
31. musicforprogramming. net — music to focus with
32. mynoise. net — custom focus soundscapes
33. annasarchive. org — search every book ever written
34. elicit. com — AI research paper assistant
35. consensus. app — search what science agrees on
36. connectedpapers. com — map research visually
37. semanticscholar. org — free academic search
38. scispace. com — understand any research paper
39. summarize. tech — summarize any YouTube video
40. phind. com — AI search for developers
41. regex101. com — test any regex instantly
42. codebeautify. org — format any code cleanly
43. explainshell. com — understand terminal commands
44. tldraw. com — infinite whiteboard in browser
45. downdetector. com — check if any site is down
46. tineye. com — reverse image search
47. fast. com — check your internet speed
48. smallpdf. com — edit PDFs free
49. ilovepdf. com — merge and split PDFs
50. 10minutemail. com — temp email in seconds
All legal. All free. All hidden from you.
Bookmark this before it disappears.
Google published an entire library of highly sophisticated, end-to-end agent examples.
100% open-source.
• Complete documentation
• Source code
• Ability to one-click deploy
In the video, I break down one of the coolest examples in this collection.
We’ve added two security improvements to Claude Managed Agents.
Self-hosted sandboxes keep the agent’s execution environment in your infrastructure or with a managed sandbox provider.
MCP tunnels let the agent connect to services inside your security perimeter.
Live from Code with Claude London: we're launching self-hosted sandboxes (public beta) and MCP tunnels (research preview) in Claude Managed Agents.
Run agents inside your own perimeter, with your security controls applied by default.
Just stumbled upon OSIRIS AI, an 'Open Source Palantir', a global intelligence dashboard that aggregates live flight and satellite tracking, CCTV networks, earthquake monitoring, conflict zone mapping, and 24/7 news feeds.
Free. Open Source. No sign-up required.
🚀 OhMyPCAP 3.0 is here!
The ultimate FOSS web app for PCAP analysis just leveled up big time.
New in v3.0:
• Suricata automatically extracts files from traffic
• Runs YARA on every extracted file - new FILE ALERTS tab
• Drag & drop any file for instant YARA scanning
Runs in a single Docker/Podman container - perfect for quick testing or air-gapped environments.
All your favorite features are still there: rich alerts, Sankey diagrams, transcripts, stream carving, and more!
Perfect for malware analysis, incident response, threat hunting and teaching network forensics.
Who’s spinning this up? Drop a ❤️ and reply with your main use case (malware? CTFs? real incidents?)
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