Hello, welcome to the Tuesday, August 9, 2020 edition of the Sansonet Storm Center's

Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich, and today I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

I wrote a brief diary today about logging in JSON using the Elkstack, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to aggregate

logs.

And that, of course, makes it a lot easier if you're using JSON.

You can sort of bypass the Logstash part.

And of course, you can also use command line utilities like JQ in order to easily summarize,

sort and extract data from logs.

So I want to share a couple tricks to get some popular servers to log in JSON format.

And if you have anything to share, please let me know.

I haven't included software like, for example, Seek or Sorikata,

that pretty much out of the box will log in JSON format.

There's only much more you have to do.

Well, in Seek, you sort of have to just flip a switch.

So if you have any trick or some other software that I didn't cover here, that's quite popular,

let me know.

Google Today released Google Chrome 104, and this update fixes 27 security vulnerabilities,

and the update, of course, also affects Microsoft Edge.

But Microsoft announced an interesting additional security feature that has been implemented

in this version of Microsoft Edge.

Users will now have the choice to select between basic balanced and strict security.

And what this does is it will enable additional security controls for sites you visit only infrequently.

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