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”
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”
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”
Hacking
Ok you need to do some AD Security Auditing or Security Testing/Exploitation, great. Let’s look at some of the common misconfigurations and some tools to help you, a list of things will obviously not be the answer, you will need a method and process to go through from recon/enumeration through to exploitation and impact (effects), but that’s what google is for (and CTFs/Labs)! This post is just me jotting down some notes, hopefully they help defenders think about improving their posture.
Read more “Active Directory Security Cheat Sheet”
Guides
There are so many lists of “tools” of “free resources” for “cyber” etc. Well I don’t want to make a list of stuff for social media, this isn’t the TOP x tools, this is simply some resources that I use on a regular basis that should give people a fairly good idea of where to start looking. Cyber sleuthing is a mixture of:
Education
Some friends and I did some testing this evening with TOX clients. We wanted to take a look at PERSEC/OPSEC considerations for using TOX. I also had a sneaky suspicion that it might out of the box leak more than people would appreciate (just a hunch and you don’t know until you test right!).
So, we setup a test. In the test we had:
Read more “Some TOX Clients Leak Egress IP addresses”
Education
Whilst the common person will largely link the words “hacker/hackers” to criminal the reality is hackers are scientists/artists/creators/ComputerOperators and the choice of being a criminal or not is down to actions and consequences. So the debate about if you identify as “hacker” does that make you a criminal, well it’s nonsense isn’t it. I could call myself a pony but it won’t make me one, much like I could call myself a criminal and I could be entirely law abiding.
Read more “Am I a criminal or am I a cybersecurity crime fighter?”
Guides
I was doing some WordPress foo on the site (I know right, shockingly I don’t want to hand craft a website and I’d rather be helping customers or really anything else really) and I came into this error when I was installing the wpforms plugins:
file_put_contents(/var/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wpforms/cache/addons.json): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wpforms-lite/src/Helpers/CacheBase.php on line 215
Education
Do you ever get the feeing you are being watched? What about listening to it? Do you ever talk about a subject and then see it appear in adverts despite never using a computer to search for it?
Well don’t worry there’s lots of reasons as to why this can occur, and whilst you might want to think someone is spying on you, the truth is they probably aren’t looking for you, but they might be harvesting your data.
Read more “Is my house spying on me?”
IOT
The digital explosion, the consumerization of technology and the world of internet connected fridges leads to a range of security and privacy risks.
There’s lots of work that’s occurred in this space, for example there is the : Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security
Read more “IoT Security”