CERT/CC Blog

Hi, folks. We've recently updated the CERT^® Basic Fuzzing Framework (BFF). The new BFF 1.1 contains new functionality and improves performance.

Hello, folks. This post comes to you courtesy of Aaron Shelmire from the Network Situational Awareness team. Aaron writes:

Recently the Network Situational Awareness team at CERT has been researching the characteristics of malicious network touchpoints. The findings of this initial research are very telling as to the true state of security on the internet.

Hi folks. I've been involved in a fuzzing effort at CERT. One of the ways that I've been able to discover vulnerabilities is through "dumb" or mutational fuzzing. We have developed a framework for performing automated dumb fuzzing. Today we are releasing a simplified version of automated dumb fuzzing, called the Basic Fuzzing Framework (BFF).

Hello folks.  This post comes to you courtesy of Ed Stoner and Aaron Shelmire from the Network Situational Awareness group at CERT.  They write:

Recently there have been some statistics published on botnet Command & Control (C2) channels. These statistics claim that 94.58% of botnet C2 channels are under the .com top level domain (TLD). While it's impossible to accurately comment on those statistics without knowing the methodology used to arrive at them, we at CERT have been doing research concerning malicious domain names that arrives at a different result.