Hacking
Working in Cyber security can expose you to all kinds of information. I’m an offensive and defensive security architect and occasional (haha that’s daily right!) pew pew slinger (pentester) and I am also a threat intelligence practioner (CTI) (we need The Many Hats Club back!). Which is why sometimes when things appear on the internet I think I decide to take a look.
Read more “The Manual Version 2.0”
Education
The other day there was a lot of focus on “ATLASOS” a rather oddly branded project, just to be clear:
ATLASOS is NOT AN Operating System (OS) (despite it’s name!)
ATLASOS (at the time of writing) disables basically the majority of Windows Security features including:
Basically, if you can think of “nightmare” in the cyber world, ATLASOS’s security posture is basically that (in my opinion)! That said, it’s cool from a nerd Windows customization/build pov, however based on my initial investigations I would strong recommend NOT using it on a “PRODUCTION” system (or anything that’s connected to the internet!).
Read more “Cyber Security for PC Gamers”
Education
In this scenario it is assumed you do not have credentials, but you do have either adjacent or routable access to an Active Directory Domain Controller and can access common ports/services such as: LDAP, LDAPS, SMB, NETBIOS, KERBEROS, DNS
Read more “Active Directory Attacks – “It’s cold out here””
Education
have you ever wanted to port forward from a Windows Host to a WSl2 KALI VM when you are using a NAT’d virtual switch configuraiton with WSL2?
Read more “Port Forwarding with WSL2”
Hacking
My friend Lars and I were just talking about some of the research areas we are working on and randomly the conversation turned into “what shall we call it?” and then LDAPNomNom came up! So I whilst laughing (coz the name is lulz) with my buddy I downloaded and ran LDAPNomNom against a lab vm quickly! (Lars also fixed an error with readme.md that I pointed out coz my debug skillz ROCK! 😛 )
So here we have me doing username enumeration via LDAP Ping using LDAPNOMNOM!
Read more “Stealthy Active Directory Username Enumeration with LDAPNomNom”
Vulnerabilities
Regarding: CVE-2023-23397
This is a fast publish, use at own risk.
See guidance from Microsoft: CVE-2023-23397 – Security Update Guide – Microsoft – Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
If you need to mitigate the latest Outlook vulnerability which abuses an SMB/WebDav call using the Calendar invite feature you can consider the following:
Read more “Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397)”
Education
CVE-2023-23397 enables a threat actor to send a calendar invite whereby the properties of the msg file can include a path for the reminder sound file. This is achieved by setting:
Read more “The Long Game: Persistent Hash Theft”
Fiction
It was a crowded train ride during rush hour, and everyone was packed in like sardines. The train was slowly making its way through the city, and people were trying to kill time with their phones or laptops.
At one end of the train, there was a young man, who appeared to be in his mid-20s, typing away furiously on his laptop. He had a serious look on his face, and his eyes were focused on the screen.
Read more “The Hacker on a Train”
Leadership
This post started as a reply to a great topic on LinkedIn, but I hit the character limit so now it’s a blog post!
Years ago I simulated attacks (authorized obviously for the people that have wild imaginations) on a customer which included a physical attack where I walked into a healthcare organization, armed with a suit a smile (and a USB key) I needed to gain access and attempt to move laterally and escalate privileges.
Read more “Adopting an Attacker Mindset to Defend Healthcare”
Fiction
It was a dark and stormy night, and a lone figure sat hunched over their computer screen, typing away at lightning speed. This was no ordinary person – this was a hacker, one of the most skilled and dangerous in the world.
Read more “Caught: A Hacker Adventure”