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7MS #702: Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest?
Hello friends, in today's episode I give an audio summary of a talk I gave this week at the MN GOVIT Symposium called "Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest?" It's not a pro-AI celebration, nor is it an anti-AI bashing. Rather, the talk focuses on my experiences using both free and paid AI services to guide me through an Active Directory penetration test.
7MS #701: What I’m Working on This Week – Part 5
Hello friends! This week I'm talking about what I'm working on this week, including: Preparing a talk called Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest for the Minnesota GOVIT Symposium. Playing with Lithnet AD password protection (I will show this live on next week's Tuesday TOOLSday). The Light Pentest logo contest has a winner!
7MS #700: Pretender
Today is episode 700 of the 7MinSec podcast! Oh my gosh. My mom didn't think we could do it, but we did. Instead of a big blowout with huge news, giveaways and special guests, today is a pretty standard issue episode with a (nearly) 7-minute run time! The topic of today's episode is Pretender (which you can download here and read a lot more about [...]
7MS #699: Pre-Travel Security Tips
Today we discuss some pre-travel tips you can use before hopping on a plane to start a work/personal adventure. Tips include: Updating the family DR/BCP plan Lightening your purse/wallet Validating/testing backups and restores Ensuring your auto coverage is up to snuff
7MS #698: Baby’s First ProjectDiscovery
Today I give a quick review of the cloud version of ProjectDiscovery (not a sponsor!).
7MS #697: Pwning Ninja Hacker Academy – Part 4
Today your pal and mine Joe "The Machine" Skeen pwn one of the two Ninja Hacker Academy domains! This pwnage included: Swiping service tickets in the name of high-priv users Dumping secrets from wmorkstations Disabling AV Extracting hashes of gMSA accounts We didn't get the second domain pwned, and so I was originally thinking about doing a part 5 in November, but changed my mind. [...]
7MS #696: Baby’s First Security Ticketing System
In today's episode: I got a new podcast doodad I really like JitBit as a security ticketing system (not a sponsor) The Threat Hunting with Velociraptor 2-day training was great. Highly recommend. I got inspired to take this class after watching the 1-hour primer here.
7MS #695: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 78
Today's tale of pentest pwnage involves: Using mssqlkaren to dump sensitive goodies out of SCCM Using a specific fork of bloodhound to find machines I could force password resets on (warning: don't do this in prod...read this!) Don't forget to check out our weekly Tuesday TOOLSday - live every Tuesday at 10 a.m. over at 7MinSec.club!
7MS #694: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 77
Hey friends, today I talk about how fun it was two combine two cool pentest tactics, put them in a blender, and move from local admin to mid-tier system admin access (with full control over hundreds of systems)! The Tuesday TOOLSday video we did over at 7minsec.club will help bring this to life as well.
7MS #693: Pwning Ninja Hacker Academy – Part 3
This week your pal and mine Joe "The Machine" Skeen kept picking away at pwning Ninja Hacker Academy. To review where we've been in parts 1 and 2: We found a SQL injection on a box called SQL, got a privileged Sliver beacon on it, and dumped mimikatz info From that dump, we used the SQL box hash to do a BloodHound run, which revealed that we had [...]
7MS #692: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 76
Happy Friday! Today's another hot pile of pentest pwnage. To make it easy on myself I'm going to share the whole narrative that I wrote up for someone else: I was on a pentest where a DA account would sweep the networks every few minutes over SMB and hit my box. But SMB signing was on literally everywhere. The fine folks here recommended I try [...]