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!
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”
Hacking
Ok imagine this, you have got access to a file server and behold you find an unsecured, unencrypted backup of a domain controller (this isn’t made up I find these in networks sometimes!) and you yoink the NTDS.dit (or maybe it’s just a workstation SAM/SYSTEM file), you extract the hashes but now what, you need to crack those bad boys!
Check out the MS docs on how NT or LM Hashes are computed(hashed)! – (thanks @ANeilan for spotting my mistake!)
[MS-SAMR]: Encrypting an NT or LM Hash | Microsoft Docs
Read more “How to Crack NTHASH (commonly referred to as NTLM) password hashes?”
Defence
Sir Jeremy Fleming was speaking at CyberUK, the UK’s flagship cyber security conference this week.
The full presentation is here but I’ve picked out some key highlights.
“Of course, we can count ourselves lucky compared to those caught up in wars, but we are also seeing a heightened cyber risk. Cyber criminals are consistently evolving their tactics; the lines are blurring with hostile state activity and ransomware remains a real threat.”
“Cyber clearly matters to everyone.”
“At the global level, the UK has developed as a cyber power. Alongside the more traditional forms of diplomacy and statecraft, cyber now plays a vital role in our national security and prosperity.”
Read more “The Director of GCHQ speaks at CyberUK 2022”
Education
Everyone these days seems to rush towards “the solution”, well as someone who now has few years under their belt, I’d advise people slow down a little and think about their business requirements, outcomes, current state, and constraints. Significantly as well think about how a service will run over a period, not just how to buy it and “fling it into production”.
Read more “Stop rushing for “the solution”!”
Leadership
Ok this isn’t my normal jam, normally I’d just write something that’s hopefully good advice/practise and that would be that. But today let’s try something different!
This was inspired by a twitter convo which evolved into this: https://twitter.com/UK_Daniel_Card/status/1522138771789123584?s=20&t=dL9OkicTY2Orj5hfBtDvVQ
So… what are some cyber security myths that ended up being good practise or “good advice”? Well here’s what I came up with, supported by some awesome cyber community people!
Read more “Security Myths and Bad Advice”
Education
My focus normally is on business to business (B2B) environments and “Enterprise” computing and cyber security. However, I’ve been known to venture into the consumer world from time to time. I wondered whether people would be interested in exploring with me what cyber security in the consumer world look like?
Last week I set on an adventure to see what “hacking” myself might look like. I’m thinking that there might be more to this than a fleeting glance at Instagram hacking and a bit of fun on twitter with alts. Maybe we need to look at consumer security and how/if we have got a good user experience in this space?
Read more “Real World Consumer Cyber Security”
Leadership
Yesterday I was asked about “attack volumes” I see in the PwnDefend HoneyNet and it reminded me about what people think an “ATTACK” is and therefore spring my brain into thinking about how we as an industry communicate. Far too often I see “number of ATTACKS” being used my marketing/sales etc. where the numbers are simply ridiculous and not reflective of how offensive cyber operations actually work.
Let’s look at some examples:
Read more “Cyber Events vs Incident vs Attack”“Gov. Greg Abbott warns Texas agencies seeing 10,000 attempted cyber attacks per minute from Iran”
Gov. Greg Abbott – article in the Texas Tribune by CASSANDRA POLLOCK