A brief daily summary of what is important in information security. The podcast is published every weekday and designed to get you ready for the day with a brief, usually 5 minute long, summary of current network security related events. The content is late breaking, educational and based on listener input as well as on input received by the SANS Internet Stormcenter. You may submit questions and comments via our contact form at https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html .
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, April 8th:
April 07, 2025
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XORsearch: Searching With Regexes
Didier explains a workaround to use his tool XORsearch to search for regular expressions instead of simple strings.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/XORsearch%3A%20Searching%20With%20Regexes/31834
MCP Security Notification: Tool Poisoning Attacks
Invariant labs summarized a critical weakness in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows for "Tool Poisoning Attacks." Many major providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI, workflow automation systems like Zapier, and MCP clients like Cursor are susceptible to this attack
https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-security-notification-tool-poisoning-attacks
Making :visited more private
Google Chrome changed how links are marked as visited . This new partitioning scheme was introduced to improve privacy. Instead of marking a link as visited on any page where it is displayed, it is only marked as visited if the user clicks on the link while visiting the particular site where the link is displayed.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/visited-links