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SafePass.me is the only enterprise solution to protect organizations against credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. Visit safepass.me for more details, and tell them 7 Minute Security sent you to get a 10% discount! Peter Kim of The Hacker Playbook series joins me today to talk about all things hacking! Peter runs a popular west coast hacker meetup, and I was fortunate enough to attend his Real World Red Team training, which I wrote a review about here. Peter sat down with me over Skype to talk about: The origin story of The Hacker Playbook series (btw please buy it, don't steal it! :-) How do you balance work and family life when trying to pwn all the things and have a personal life and significant other? How do you break into security when your background is in something totally different, like a mechanic, artist or musician? What are some good strategies when approaching a red team engagement - do you always start "fresh" from the perimeter? Do you assume compromise and throw a dropbox on the

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. It’s never too late to start a new career in IT or move up the ladder, and ITProTV has you covered - from CompTIA and Cisco to EC-Council and VMWare. Get over 65 hours of IT training for free by visiting https://itpro.tv/7minute. Today's episode is all about LAPS - Microsoft's Local Administrator Password solution. In a nutshell, LAPS strengthens and randomizes the local administrator password on the systems across your enterprise. We talked about it way back in episode 252 but figured it was worth a revisit because: It's awesome It's free People still haven't heard of it when I share info about it during conference talks! I've got a full write-up of how to install LAPS here At a recent conference people asked me two awesome edge case questions: What if I aggressively delete inactive machines from my AD - does the LAPS attribute go with it? What do I do if I use Deep Freeze and the LAPS password attribute in AD keeps getting out of sync with the actu

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. It’s never too late to start a new career in IT or move up the ladder, and ITProTV has you covered - from CompTIA and Cisco to EC-Council and VMWare. Get over 65 hours of IT training for free by visiting https://itpro.tv/7minute. This is part three of this series - part 1 talked about a fire that destroyed my family's home and vehicles, and part 2 was about how to get "back on the grid" and start working with the insurance machine to find a new "normal." Today, I want to answer some burning questions many of you have been asking: Have you hit rock bottom yet? (Spolier alert: no, but I tell you about a moment I almost lost my mind after dropping a shoe in a storm drain) How long to you get to keep rental cars before you have to replace your permanent vehicles? Do you have to stay in a hotel the whole time your house is rebuilt? What about if you get placed in temporary housing - do you have to rebuy your beds/furniture/clothes/etc. and keep them at your tem

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. It’s never too late to start a new career in IT or move up the ladder, and ITProTV has you covered - from CompTIA and Cisco to EC-Council and VMWare. Get over 65 hours of IT training for free by visiting https://itpro.tv/7minute. Today's episode is a twofer. That's right, two tales of internal network pentest pwnage. Whoop whoop! We cover: What the SDAD (Single Domain Admin Dance) and DDAD (Double Domain Admin Dance) are (spoiler: imagine your dad trying to dance cool...it's like that, but more awkward) A good way to quickly find domain controllers in your environment: nslookup -type=SRV _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.YOURDOMAIN.SUFFIX This handy script runs nmap against subnets, then Eyewitness, then emails the results to you Early in the engagement I'd highly recommend checking for Kerberoastable accounts I really like Multirelay to help me pass hashes, like: MultiRelay.py -t 1.2.3.4 -u bob.admin Administrator yourmoms.admin Once you get a shell, run dump to

SafePass.me is the only enterprise solution to protect organizations against credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. Visit safepass.me for more details, and tell them 7 Minute Security sent you to get a 10% discount! In part 1 of this series we talked about a tragic event my family experienced a few weeks ago: we lost our house and vehicles in a fire. Today I'll talk about: How to get "back on the grid" when starting with nothing but the clothes on your back. Checklist includes: New licenses New ATM/credit cards Rental vehicles Temporary housing How the most wonderful people in the world come out of your past to lift you up and help you out - and how it may not the people you expect What's it like working with the insurance machine? What do they help with and not help with? How much does it suck to lose all your stuff? (Spoiler alert: a lot) The relief (as weird as that sounds) that comes with losing all your material things Thanks again for your support via GoFundMe

In today's episode I talk about how my family's house and two vehicles were recently destroyed in a fire. The Johnson family is all ok - no injuries, thank God. However, this has turned our world upside down, and over the past week of sleepless nights I've thought a lot about how this tragedy could help others ensure their families are safe and secure both during and after a disaster. I imagine this series will go something like this: Today: Talk about "day zero" - everything that happened on the day of the fire Part 2: Talk about what it's like working with insurance, 3rd party vendors, getting rental cars, finding temporary housing, and basically getting "back on the grid" starting with NO identification or credit cards Part 3: Talk about the people part of all this. What are the effects on the family? On the community? On our health? On our faith? Some folks in the security community were kind enough to setup a GoFundMe if you'd like to support my family during this time.

Today's episode features a few important changes to the tools and services I use to run 7MS: Docusign is out and (sort of) replaced with Proposify Voltage SecureMail is out and replaced by ShareFile Ninite is rad for keeping mobile pentest dropboxes automatically updated! Nessys_SortyMcSortleton has been updated to...you know...work Additionally, we talk about a few biz-specific challenges: How do you (comfortably) talk about money with a client before the SOW hits their inbox? If you're a small security consultancy of 2-5 people, do you lie about your company size to impress the big client, or tell the truth and brag about the advantages a nimble team can bring?

SafePass.me is the only enterprise solution to protect organizations against credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. Visit safepass.me for more details, and tell them 7 Minute Security sent you to get a 10% discount! I'm sorry it took me forever and a day to get this episode up, but I'm thrilled to share part 4 (the final chapter - for now anyways) of my interview with the red team guys, Ryan and Dave! In today's episode we talk about: Running into angry system admins (that are either too fired up or not fired up enough) Being wrong without being ashamed When is it necessary to make too much noice to get caught during an engagement? What are the top 5 tools you run on every engagement? How do you deal with monthly test reports indefinitely being a copy/paste of the previous month's report? How do you deal with clients who scope things in such as way that the test is almost impossible to conduct? How do you deal with colleagues who take findings as their own when they talk with management? How do y

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. It’s never too late to start a new career in IT or move up the ladder, and ITProTV has you covered - from CompTIA and Cisco to EC-Council and VMWare. Get over 65 hours of IT training for free by visiting https://itpro.tv/7minute. Today I'm joined by a very special guest: Mrs. 7MS! She joins me on a road trip to northern MN, reads me some questions from the 7MS mail bag, and we tackle them together (with a side order of commentary on weddings, overheating iPads, cheap hotels and the realization that this is likely the first - and only episode that Mrs. 7MS has ever listened to). Links to things discussed this episode: Wireless pentest certs: SEC617 - SANS course that covers wifi pentesting (with WPA enterprise attacks) Offensive Security Wireless Professional Good/free pentest training options: Pentester Academy VulnHub Rastalabs The Cyber Mentor Free logging/alerting solutions for SMBs: WEFFLES Logging Made Easy HELK Wazuh

In this episode I talk about some things I learned about making your own kick-butt cred-capturing phishing campaign and how to do so on the (relatively) quick and (relatively) cheap! These tips include: Consider this list of top 9 phishing simulators. Check out GoPhish! Then spin up a free tier Kali AWS box Follow the instructions to install GoPhish and get it running on your AWS box Use the Expired Domains site to buy up a domain that is similar to your victim - maybe just one character off - but has been around a while and has a good reputation Add a G Suite or O365 email account (or whatever email service you prefer) to the new domain Create a convincing cred-capturing portal on GoPhish - I used some absolutely disguisting and embarassing HTML like this (see show notes on 7ms.us): Use this awesome article to secure your fancy landing page with a LetsEncrypt cert! Have fun!!!

SafePass.me is the only enterprise solution to protect organizations against credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. Visit safepass.me for more details, and tell them 7 Minute Security sent you to get a 10% discount! This episode is a "sequel" of sorts to part 9 where I was helping another company tag-team an internal network pentest. (In announcer voice) "When we last left our heroes we had..." Relayed one high-priv cred from one box to another Dumped and cracked a local machine's hash Passed that hash around the network Found (via Bloodhound) some high value targets we wanted to grab domain admin creds from Set the wdigest flag via CrackMapExec Today, we talk about how we came back to the pentest a few days later and scripted the procdump/lsass operation to (hopefully) grab cleartext credentials from these high value targets. Here's how we did it: mkdir /share wget https://live.sysinternals.com/procdump64.exe screen -R smb /opt/impacket/examples/smbserver.py -smb2support share /share Then, we

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. It’s never too late to start a new career in IT or move up the ladder, and ITProTV has you covered - from CompTIA and Cisco to EC-Council and VMWare. Get over 65 hours of IT training for free by visiting https://itpro.tv/7minute. Today's episode is about a pentest that was pretty unique for me. I got to ride shotgun and kind of be in the shadows while helping another team pwn a network. This was an especially interesting one because the client had a lot of great security defenses in place, including: Strong user passwords A SIEM solution that appeared to be doing a great job We did some looking for pwnage opportunities such as: Systems missing EternalBlue patch Systems missing BlueKeep patch What got us a foot in the door was the lack of SMB signing. Check this gist to see how you can use RunFinger.py to find hosts without SMB signing, then use Impacket and Responder to listen for - and pass - high-priv hashes. Side note: I'm working on getting a practical pen

For Windows VMs Take a snapshot right after the OS is installed, as (I believe) the countdown timer for Windows evaluation mode starts upon first "real" boot. Want to quickly run Windows updates on a fresh Win VM? Try this (here's the source): powershell Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force powershell Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate -force powershell Set-ExecutionPolicy bypass powershell Import-Module PSWindowsUpdate powershell Get-WindowsUpdate powershell Install-WindowsUpdates -AcceptAll -AutoReboot To turn on remote desktop: Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server'-name "fDenyTSConnections" -Value 0 To set the firewall to allow RDP: Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Remote Desktop" To stop the freakin' Windows hosts from going to sleep: powercfg.exe -change -standby-timeout-ac 0 To automate the install of VMWare tools, grab the package from VMWare's site, decompress it, then: setup64.exe /s /v "/qn reboot=r" To set the time zone via comma

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. It’s never too late to start a new career in IT or move up the ladder, and ITProTV has you covered - from CompTIA and Cisco to EC-Council and VMWare. Get over 65 hours of IT training for free by visiting https://itpro.tv/7minute. Today's episode is a continuation of episode #379, where we: Conducted general nmap scans (and additional scans specifically looking for Eternal Blue) Sucked our nmap scans into Eyewitness Captured and cracked some creds with Paperspace Scraped the company's marketing Web site with brutescrape and popped a domain admin account (or so I thought!) Today, the adventure continues with: Checking the environment for CVE-2019-1040 Picking apart the privileges on my "pseudo domain admin" account Making a startling discovery about how almost all corp passwords were stored Enjoy!

SafePass.me is the only enterprise solution to protect organizations against credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. Visit safepass.me for more details, and tell them 7 Minute Security sent you to get a 10% discount! This episode, besides talking about a man who screamed at me for not being on my cell phone, covers another tale of internal network pentest pwnage! Topics/tactics covered include: Review of setting up your DIY pentest dropbox Choosing the right hardware (I'm partial to this NUC) Running Responder to catch creds Using Eyewitness to snag screenshots of stuff discovered with nmap scanning Nmap for Eternal Blue with nmap -Pn -p445 --open --max-hostgroup 3 --script smb-vuln-ms17-010 192.168.0.0/24 Running Sharphound to get a map of the AD environment Cracking creds with Paperspace When cracking, make sure to scrape the customer's public Web sites for more wordlist ideas!

In today's episode, I sit down with Zane West of Proficio. Zane has been in information security for more than 20 years - starting out in the "early days" as a sysadmin and then moved up into global infrastructure architect function in the banking world. Today Zane manages Proficio's solution and product development. I sat down with Zane over Skype to talk about how companies can better analyze and defend their networks against attacks. Specifically, we talk about: How important is it to have an IT background before you jump into security? How can newb(ish) security analysts and pentesters better understand the political/financial struggles a business has, rather than charge in and scream "PWN ALL THE THINGS!" Is there a "right way" to step into an organization, get a lay of the land and discover/prioritize their security risks? Why in the world does it take twenty seven people to run a SOC?! When should an organization consider engaging an MSSP to help them with their security needs? What if your MSP also p

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. It’s never too late to start a new career in IT or move up the ladder, and ITProTV has you covered - from CompTIA and Cisco to EC-Council and VMWare. Get over 65 hours of IT training for free by visiting https://itpro.tv/7minute. In today's episode I cover some of the nasty "gotchas" I've run into when sending my pentest dropboxes around the country. Curious on how to setup your own portable pentest dropboxes (and/or pentest lab environments)? Check out part 1 and part 2 of the DIY Pentest Lab video series. Here are some of the pain points I cover today: Turn the firewall off Set Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Network > Network Connections > Windows Firewall > Domain Profile > Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections to Disabled. Do the same for the Standard Profile by changing Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Network > Network Connections > Windows Firewall > Standard Profile > Windows Firew

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. It’s never too late to start a new career in IT or move up the ladder, and ITProTV has you covered - from CompTIA and Cisco to EC-Council and VMWare. Get over 65 hours of IT training for free by visiting https://itpro.tv/7minute. We cover a lot of ground today on a variety of topics: I have an Oculus Quest now and I love it. My handle is turdsquirt if you ever wanna shoot some zombies together. I share a story that yes, does involve poop - but only the mention of it. It's nothing like the epic tale (tail?) of my parents' dog pooping in my son's dresser drawers. I had a really fun pentest recently where I found some good old school SQL injection. I took to Slack to share and since then, several of you have reached out to ask how I found the vulnerability. Here are some steps/tips I talk about on today's episode that will help: Watch Sunny's Burp courses on Pluralsight to enhance your Burp abilities Install CO2 from the BApp store When doing a Web app pentest

I swear this program isn't turning into the Dr. Phil show, but I have to say that sharing tales of fail is extremely therapeutic for me, and based on your comments, it sounds like many of you feel the same way too. Today's takeaways include: Doing a 8-10 hour internal pentest is probably overly ambitious. Seriously, it's really NOT a lot of time. If a client uses a logging/alerting system, vulnerability scanning is very loud to their digital ears Checking for DNS zone transfers is a good idea!

SafePass.me is the only enterprise solution to protect organizations against credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. Visit safepass.me for more details, and tell them 7 Minute Security sent you to get a 10% discount! Ok, I lied a few episodes ago, and I'm sorry! I was on an epic road trip this week and suddenly remembered the pentest that really had the shortest TTDA (time to domain admin) ever. Enjoy that tale on today's podcast! Oh, and I also reference this gist which might help you test your SIEM bells and whistles. Psssst - I'm sorry (but not sorry) but this episode begins with a long story about a dog pooping inside a dresser drawer. If you'd rather skip that, the actual episode begins at about 29:00)