Hello, welcome to the Monday, June 28, 2021 edition of the Sandtonet Storm Center's Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich,

and I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida. Jim noticed an increase in scans against LDAB in our

port scan database, and well, the big question is kind of why UDP port

389 is affected here the logs we have are just from firewalls so we don't really know what

the payload is necessarily of these scans but in March advisory was, pointing out that LDAB can be used to

gather the existence or non-existence of accounts, and that could possibly be used for reconnaissance.

Of course, LDAB could possibly also use for some reflective denial of service attacks.

But it would be interesting to know if anybody has an insight as to what these attacks are attempting to accomplish.

And destroying electronic media at scale, of course, can sometimes be a problem.

And the DDA looked this weekend at a little sort of home project in destroying some DVDs and CDs

that he had sitting around that basically need to be disposed of?

Well, he played with a trill press to drill holes into these DVDs and that actually didn't work too well.

He warns against trying that.

Turn out to be a little bit dangerous because it's hard to clamp down those DVDs securely.

So any other ideas are welcome.

I know there are shredders.

I've used that in the past.

I've sometimes just sort of snap them.

But even that is a little bit dangerous sometimes as the shorts sort of tend to fly away there.

Some people have recommended microwaves.

Not sure if that's safe for the microwave.

And talking about data destruction, lots of stories last week and a couple of readers

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