Hello and welcome to the Friday, June 5th, 2006 edition of the Sands and its Storm Center's

Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich, recorded date from Jacksonville, Florida. And this episode

is brought you by the Sands.edu, create a certificate program in incident response.

Well, today's diary is not sort of a core security topic,

but, well, it's about Microsoft's core utilities for Windows,

and that's a utility that's probably quite useful for many of you if you're used to the Unix

command line and all of the little tools that usually come with that.

Well, Windows now does have the same commands available thanks to Microsoft releasing core

utilities.

Now the approach they're taking here is a little bit like

what you often see with BISI Box. That's like, you often used on IoT device and such,

but you have one binary, but then BSM Links, you can call it under multiple names, and depending

on what name you use, well, it behaves different.

It basically then emulates whatever command you're trying to execute.

That, of course, also has the advantage with just one binary.

It's a little bit easier to manage this.

This binary is, of course, properly signed,

which is another nice advantage over, for example,

some of the open source solutions and such

that are a bit more difficult to validate.

So give it a spin and, well, let us know how you made use of these utilities.

And Cisco yesterday released a noteworthy patch for a critical vulnerability in Cisco's Unified Communication Manager.

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