Article: Logistics Firms - Are you vulnerable to a DDoS attack? - published over 2 years ago.
Content: Getting stuff from A to B has never been more important or more in the public eye. And with the challenges of the pandemic, Brexit and spiking fuel costs, logistics companies are coming under increasing pressure around delivering on time and at low cost. Unfortunately, cyber criminals don’t care about that and if logistics companies are not prepared they c...
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Published: 2022 03 23 10:45:00
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Article: "By starting with the basics, you can protect your company from the vast majority of threats" - published over 2 years ago.
Content: In our first Spotlight feature of 2022, we speak with Philip Ridley, a Principal Consultant at our Trusted Partners, IntaForensics, to get his thoughts on cyber security, best practices, risks and threats and working through a pandemic! First of all, let’s do introductions. Tell us who you are and a little bit about your role within IntaForensics... My name ...
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Published: 2022 03 23 10:38:16
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Article: Home Lab - VPN - published over 7 years ago.
Content: Since our lab is isolated from the home network behind the router we need a way to access the VM's inside from our research systems. To access the systems behind the router we can use a VPN. With VyOS we have 2 options:L2TP/IPSec - Native support on Windows and OS X. Linux client support can be tricky.OpenVPN - Requires third party client installed, works we...
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Published: 2017 03 09 11:50:29
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Article: How Much Your Org Reaction to a Tweet Says? - published over 7 years ago.
Content: Recently Tavis Ormandy a well known vulnerability researcher from Google made a tweet about a vulnerability he and researcher Natalie Silvanovich from Google Project Zero found on the Windows OS that could be wormable.  ...
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Published: 2017 05 07 21:51:27
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Article: Basics of Tracking WMI Activity - published about 7 years ago.
Content: WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) has been part of the Windows Operating System since since Windows 2000 when it was included in the OS. The technology has been of great value to system administrators by providing ways to pull all types of information, configure components and take action based on state of several components of the OS. Due to this fle...
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Published: 2017 10 16 12:00:00
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Article: Sysinternals Sysmon 6.10 Tracking of Permanent WMI Events - published about 7 years ago.
Content: In my previous blog post I covered how Microsoft has enhanced WMI logging in the latest versions of their client and server operating systems. WMI Permanent event logging was also added in version 6.10 specific events for logging permanent event actions. The new events are:Event ID 19: WmiEvent (WmiEventFilter activity detected). When a WMI event filter is r...
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Published: 2017 10 18 12:00:00
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Article: Update to Pentest Metasploit Plugin - published about 7 years ago.
Content: I recently update my Metasploit Pentest Plugin . I added 2 new commands to the plugin and fixed issues when printing information as a table. The update are small ones.Lets take a look at the changes for the plugin. We can start by loading the plugin in a Metasploit Framework session. msf > load pentest ___ _ _ ___ _ ...
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Published: 2017 10 19 12:00:00
Received: 2022 03 23 10:46:10
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Article: Basics of The Metasploit Framework API - IRB Setup - published about 7 years ago.
Content: Those of you who have taken my "Automating Metasploit Framework" class all this material should not be new. I have decided to start making a large portion of the class available here in the blog as a series. On this post I will cover the basics of setting up IRB so we can start exploring in a general sense the Metasploit Framework API. The API is extensive a...
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Published: 2017 10 23 12:00:00
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Article: Switching Ruby Version in RVM for Metasploit Development - published about 7 years ago.
Content: If you have setup a development environment with RVM to do development in Metasploit Framework you are bound to encounter that the Metasploit team has changed preferred Ruby versions. carlos@ubuntu:/opt$ cd metasploit-framework/ ruby-2.4.2 is not installed. To install do: 'rvm install ruby-2.4.2' You get a useful message that mentions the RVM command yo...
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Published: 2017 10 25 12:00:00
Received: 2022 03 23 10:46:10
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Article: Windows Defender Exploit Guard ASR VBScript/JS Rule - published about 7 years ago.
Content: Microsoft has been adding to Windows 10 the features of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) in to the OS. On the 1709 release they added more features and expanded on them as part of Windows Defender Exploit Guard One of the features of great interest for me is Attack Surface Reduction. I have used this feature in EMET with great success as a m...
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Published: 2017 11 07 12:00:00
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Article: Windows Defender Exploit Guard ASR Obfuscated Script Rule - published about 7 years ago.
Content: On this blog post I will cover my testing of the Attack Surface Reduction rule for Potentially Obfuscated Scripts. This is one of the features that intrigued me the most. One obfuscates the scripts for several reasons:Bypass detection controls like AV, automatic log analysis and other controls. Hinder analysis of the script to determine its purpose and actio...
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Published: 2017 11 08 12:00:00
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Article: Windows Defender Exploit Guard ASR Rules for Office - published about 7 years ago.
Content: On this blog post I continue looking at the ASR rules, this time I'm looking at the ASR rules for Office.  The ASR rules for office are:Block Office applications from creating child processesBlock Office applications from creating executable contentBlock Office applications from injecting code into other processesBlock Win32 API calls from Office macroThese ...
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Published: 2017 11 14 11:00:00
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Article: Operational Look at Sysinternals Sysmon 6.20 Update - published almost 7 years ago.
Content: Sysmon has been a game changer for many organizations allowing their teams to fine tune their detection of malicious activity when combined with tools that aggregate and correlate events.  A new version of Symon was recently released. Version 6.20 fixes bugs and adds new features. Some the of the note worthy changes for me are:Enhancements in WMI Logging. Ab...
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Published: 2017 11 27 11:00:00
Received: 2022 03 23 10:46:09
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Article: Rebuilding My Playbook .. Knowledge Base - published almost 7 years ago.
Content: I find myself in the situation where I lost my personal playbook by user error. I accidentally deleted the VM where I ran xWiki where it was kept and did not realized the mistake until days later. Even if painful to rebuild it is a good opportunity to think on how to better organize it and put it in a more flexible format.  I Initially called my collection o...
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Published: 2017 12 13 11:00:00
Received: 2022 03 23 10:46:09
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Article: Operating Offensively Against Sysmon - published about 6 years ago.
Content: Sysmon is a tool written by Mark Russinovich that I have covered in multiple blog post and even wrote a PowerShell module called Posh-Sysmon to help with the generation of configuration files for it. Its main purpose is for the tracking of potentially malicious activity on individual hosts and it is based on the same technology as Procmon. It differs from ot...
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Published: 2018 10 08 10:00:00
Received: 2022 03 23 10:46:09
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Article: Getting DNS Client Cached Entries with CIM/WMI - published almost 5 years ago.
Content: What is DNS CacheThe DNS cache maintains a database of recent DNS resolution in memory. This allows for faster resolution of hosts that have been queried in the recent past. To keep this cache fresh and reduce the chance of stale records the time of items in the cache is of 1 day on Windows clients. The DNS Client service in Windows is the one that manages t...
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Published: 2020 02 03 10:00:00
Received: 2022 03 23 10:46:09
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Article: Use This Definitive RFP Template to Effectively Evaluate XDR solutions - published over 2 years ago.
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Published: 2022 03 23 10:08:40
Received: 2022 03 23 10:25:57
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Article: CVE-2022-27666 - published over 2 years ago.
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Published: 2022 03 23 06:15:06
Received: 2022 03 23 10:22:56
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Article: CVE-2022-1033 - published over 2 years ago.
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Published: 2022 03 23 08:15:08
Received: 2022 03 23 10:22:47
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Article: Use This Definitive RFP Template to Effectively Evaluate XDR solutions - published over 2 years ago.
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Published: 2022 03 23 10:08:40
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Article: New Variant of Chinese Gimmick Malware Targeting macOS Users - published over 2 years ago.
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Published: 2022 03 23 10:03:39
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Article: Most Important Facts You Need To Know About Cyber Security in the Cloud - published over 2 years ago.
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Published: 2022 03 23 09:03:04
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Article: Over 200,000 MicroTik Routers Worldwide Are Under the Control of Botnet Malware - published over 2 years ago.
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Published: 2022 03 23 09:49:30
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Article: New Variant of Chinese Gimmick Malware Targeting macOS Users - published over 2 years ago.
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Article: Over 200,000 MicroTik Routers Worldwide Are Under the Control of Botnet Malware - published over 2 years ago.
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Published: 2022 03 23 09:49:30
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