Hello, welcome to the Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 edition of the Sandton and Stormsenders Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich,

and today I'm recording from Salt Lake City, Utah. So I was doing my daily look through my weblogs today

and noticed some different user agents that I hadn't really noticed before and

one of you have found them was to just look for the longest user agent in my logs

so I was wondering what your longest user agent is and if there are maybe any other

interesting attacks or sort of lurk within user agents.

Oddly enough, didn't really see any shell shock exploit attempts.

Usually that sort of leads to very long, odd-looking user agents that typically pop out first.

So if you find anything interesting, just post it as a comment to today's

diary. And ransomware just doesn't seem to go away and we have more evidence of ransomware

going after servers. The latest case involves CIMPRA servers. Bleeping computer reports

that it has spotted a ransomware written in Python that is encrypting

the emails stored on CIMPRA servers.

CIMPRA, if you're not familiar with it, is an email server and collaboration source.

It uses open source software and apparently if these servers get compromised,

you may find yourself with ransomware on these servers that encrypts emails.

And apparently users still don't realize that you need to erase hard drives before you sell

them on eBay. Planco Technology Group, which is in a business of erasing and destroying data, did purchase 200 used hard disks from eBay and found that 67% of these hard drives did still hold personally identifiable information and 11% included sensitive corporate data.

Also, a lot of these hard drives did contain data that essentially just pulled into the recycle

bin instead of properly deleting it. So in short, if you insist in actually passing hard drives on to others,

make sure you erase those hard drives,

but it's probably best to just destroy the drive and not to resell it at all.

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