Discontinuing Support for ISC Alert Task Bar Icon
Many years ago, when the internet was still a different place before Twitter, RSS and browser notifications, Tom Liston was kind enough to write a very compact task bar application displaying the current "Incocon". The application, also known as "blinky globe thing", was mostly known for its impeccable implementation of the color orange.
However, the application uses a non-standard RSS feed, and does not speak SSL. We recently changed our site to SSL only, breaking the current "blinky globe" to only show blue. Also, there are now a number of other more standard ways to receive notifications about infocon changes. As a result, I decided to stop supporting "ISCAlert". If you still use it, please uninstall it.
For alternatives, please see our notification system: https://isc.sans.edu/notify.html . We currently offer "SMS compatible" e-mail notifications and will soon have browser notifications (part of this is already live). We do also have a number of RSS feeds, simple text feeds (e.g.. https://isc.sans.edu/infocon.txt ) and Twitter to notify you of impeding doom.
For more about the Infocon, see https://isc.sans.edu/infocon.html
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
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Comments
Anonymous
May 22nd 2014
1 decade ago
Replace some magnitude counters on a scale to 1 to 10 of the severity of current outbreaks or extraordinary threats in the most important categories, such as
Scanning activity, Phishing, Spamming, DDoS
Anonymous
May 22nd 2014
1 decade ago
We still offer various forms of the Infocon for dashboards.
Anonymous
May 22nd 2014
1 decade ago
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May 22nd 2014
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May 22nd 2014
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May 22nd 2014
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May 23rd 2014
1 decade ago
Anonymous
May 23rd 2014
1 decade ago
In the name of security, we lose something to make things more secure disappear.
:shake
Anonymous
May 23rd 2014
1 decade ago
Anonymous
May 25th 2014
1 decade ago