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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 [...]

By |November 7, 2025|Categories: podcast|Tags: |

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

By |October 31, 2025|Categories: podcast|Tags: , |

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.  [...]

By |October 17, 2025|Categories: podcast|Tags: |

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!

By |October 3, 2025|Categories: podcast|Tags: |

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.

By |September 26, 2025|Categories: podcast|Tags: |

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 [...]

By |September 19, 2025|Categories: podcast|Tags: |

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 [...]

By |September 12, 2025|Categories: podcast|Tags: |

7MS #691: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 75

Holy schnikes, today might be my favorite tale of pentest pwnage ever. Do I say that almost every episode? yes. Do I mean it? Yes. Here are all the commands/links to supplement today's episode: Got an SA account to a SQL server through Snaffler-ing With that SA account, I learned how to coerce Web auth from within a SQL shell - read more about that [...]

By |September 5, 2025|Categories: podcast|Tags: |
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