Hello and welcome to the Thursday, February 12, 2006 edition of the Sands and the

Storm Center's Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich, recording day from Jacksonville, Florida.

And today's episode is brought you by the Sands.edu, Cradde Certificate Program in Purple Team Operations.

In Diaries today, the first one we have is Bike Savi about the use of the Windows subsystem for Linux in Malver.

Malver certainly has discovered this neat tool in newer Windows variants and, well, it's

often sort of enabled, not necessarily used, or a user may not even be aware that this

interesting tool is sitting there.

So with the Windows subsystem for Linux, you essentially have a Linux container virtual machine, whatever

you're going to call it, that can easily be accessed from the Windows command line. You can

also easily copy files into the file system accessible by this subsystem. And of course,

Malver loves to use the ease of use of Linux,

and also the ability to, well, maybe easier height

some of the artifacts within this subsystem.

The example that Xavier has is actually JavaScript

that checks if a particular system it is running on does have WSL

available and then it takes advantage of it.

And Apple today released its usual, well, update everything, a patch.

Apple does not have a regular sort of patch cadence like Microsoft, so

somewhat random that this came out the Wednesday after, patch Tuesday. But this particular

update was expected because, well, Apple sort of got ready to release the next increment in its

operating systems.

And with a couple new features, you of course also get a number of security fixes.

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