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7 Minute Security

7 Minute Security is a weekly information security podcast focusing on penetration testing, blue teaming and building a career in security. The podcast also features in-depth interviews with industry leaders who share their insights, tools, tips and tricks for being a successful security engineer.

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37:32

7MS #579: Hacking Tommy Callahan - Part 2

7 Minute Security ·

2023/07/07

Hey friends, today we're continuing our series on pwning the Tommy Boy VM on VulnHub VM! P.S. did you miss part one? Check it out on YouTube. Joe "The Machine" Skeen and I had a blast poking and prodding at the VM in hopes to fix the broken Callahan Auto brake-ordering Web app. Some tips/tricks we cover: It's always a good idea to look at a site's robots.txt file crunch is awesome for making wordlists fcrackzip is rad for cracking encrypted zip files dirbuster works well for busting into hidden

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01:00:50

7MS #578: Interview with Mike Toole of Blumira

7 Minute Security ·

2023/06/30

Today I'm excited to share a featured interview with our new friend Mike Toole of Blumira. We talk about all things EDR, including: How does it differ from something like Windows Defender? What things do I need to keep in mind if I'm in the market for an EDR purchase? Is Mac EDR any good? How do attackers bypass EDR? Will AI create industructible malware, take over the human race and then use our bodies for batteries?

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07:01

7MS #577: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 48

7 Minute Security ·

2023/06/16

Holy schnikes - this episode is actually 7 minutes long! What a concept! Anyway, today I give you a couple tips that have helped me pwn some internal networks the last few weeks, including: Getting a second (and third?) opinion on Active Directory Certificate Services vulnerabilities! Analyzing the root domain object in BloodHound to find some misconfigs that might equal instant domain admin access!

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33:38

7MS #575: Annoying Attackers with ADHD - Part 2

7 Minute Security ·

2023/06/09

Hey friends! Today we're taking a second look at ADHD - Active Defense Harbinger Distribution - a cool VM full of tools designed to annoy/attribute/attack pesky attackers! The tools covered today include: PHP-HTTP-TARPIT A tool to confuse and waste bot/scanner/hacker time. Grab it here and check out our setup instructions: sudo git clone https://github.com/msigley/PHP-HTTP-Tarpit.git /opt/tarpit cd /opt/tarpit sudo mv la_brea.php /var/www/html/index.php cd /var/www/html/ # Delete the default HTMLM

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36:29

7MS #574: Annoying Attackers with ADHD

7 Minute Security ·

2023/06/02

Hey friends! Today we're looking at ADHD - Active Defense Harbinger Distribution - a cool VM full of tools designed to annoy/attribute/attack pesky attackers! ADHD gets you up and running with these tools quickly, but the distro hasn't been updated in a while, so I switched to a vanilla Kali system and setup a cowrie SSH honeypot as follows (see 7ms.us for full list of commands).

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36:27

7MS #573: Securing Your Mental Health - Part 4

7 Minute Security ·

2023/05/26

Today we're talking about reducing anxiety by hacking your mental health with these tips: Using personal automation to text people important reminders Using Remind to create a personal communication "class" with your family members Using Smartsheet (not a sponsor) to create daily email "blasts" to yourself about all the various project todos you need to tackle

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26:37

7MS #572: Protecting Your Domain Controllers with...

7 Minute Security ·

2023/05/19

Today we look at LDAP Firewall - a cool (and free!) way to defend your domain controllers against SharpHound enumeration, LAPS password enumeration, and the noPac attack.

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31:26

7MS #571: Simple Ways to Test Your SIEM - Part 2

7 Minute Security ·

2023/05/12

Hey friends! This week I spoke at the Secure360 conference in Minnesota on Simple Ways to Test Your SIEM. This is something I covered a while back on the podcast, but punched up the content a bit and built a refreshed a two-part GitHub gist that covers: Questions you can ask a prospective SIEM/SOC solution to figure out which one is the right fit for you All the tools/tips/scripts/etc. you need to run through 7 (and more!) simple ways to test your SIEM!

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32:16

7MS #570: How to Build a Vulnerable Pentest Lab - Part 4

7 Minute Security ·

2023/05/05

SafePass.me is the only enterprise solution to protect organizations against credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. Visit safepass.me for more details, and tell them 7 Minute Security sent you to get a 10% discount! In today's episode we staged an NTLM relay attack using a vulnerable SQL server. First we used CrackMapExec (see our two part series on Cracking and Mapping and Execing with CrackMapExec - part 1 / part 2) to find hosts with SMB signing disabled: cme smb x.x.x.x/24 -u USER

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55:12

7MS #569: Interview with Jim Simpson of Blumira

7 Minute Security ·

2023/04/28

Today we're excited to share a featured interview with our new friend Jim Simpson, CEO of Blumira. Jim was in security before it was hip/cool/lucrative, working with a number of startups as well as some big names like Duo. Blumira and 7 Minute Security have a shared love for helping SMBs be more secure, so it was great to chat with Jim about the IT/security challenges faced by SMBs, and what we can do make security more simple and accessible for them.

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19:12

7MS #568: Lets Play With the 2023 Local Administrator...

7 Minute Security ·

2023/04/21

Hey friends, today we're playing with the new (April 2023) version of Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS). Now it's baked right into PowerShell and the AD Users and Tools console. It's awesome, it's a necessary blue team control for any size company, and you should basically stop reading this and install LAPS now.

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39:08

7MS #567: How to Build an Intentionally Vulnerable...

7 Minute Security ·

2023/04/14

Hey friends, today we're talking about building an intentionally vulnerable SQL server, and here are the key URLs/commands talked about in the episode: Download SQL Server here Install SQL via config .ini file Or, install SQL via pure command line Deploy SQL with a service account while also starting TCP/IP and named pipes automagically: setup.exe /Q /IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS /ACTION="install" /FEATURES=SQL /INSTANCENAME=MSSQLSERVER /TCPENABLED=1 /NPENABLED=1

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54:30

7MS #566: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 47

7 Minute Security ·

2023/03/31

Ok, I know we say this every time, but it is true this time yet again: this is our favorite tale of pentest pwnage. It involves a path to DA we've never tried before, and introduced us to a new trick that one of our favorite old tools can do!

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27:21

7MS #565: How to Simulate Ransomware with a Monkey

7 Minute Security ·

2023/03/24

Hey friends, today we talk through how to simulate ransomware (in a test environment!) using Infection Monkey. It's a cool way to show your team and execs just how quick and deadly an infection can be to your business. You can feed the monkey a list of usernames and passwords/hashes to use for lateral movement, test network segmentation, set a UNC path of files to actually encrypt (careful - run in a test lab - NOT in prod!) and more!

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43:11

7MS #564: First Impressions of OVHcloud Hosted vCenter

7 Minute Security ·

2023/03/17

Today we offer you some first impressions of OVHcloud and how we're seriously considering moving our Light Pentest LITE training class to it! TLDR: It runs on vCenter, my first and only virtualization love! Unlimited VM "powered on" time and unlimited bandwidth Intergration with PowerShell so you can run a single script to "heal" your environment to a gold image Easy integration with pfSense to be able to manage the firewall and internal/external IPs Price comparable to what we're paying

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35:07

7MS #563: Cracking and Mapping and Execing with...

7 Minute Security ·

2023/03/10

Hey friends, today we're covering part 2 of our series all about cracking and mapping and execing with CrackMapExec. Specifically we cover: # Enumerate where your user has local admin rights: cme smb x.x.x.x/24 -u user -p password # Set wdigest flag: cme smb x.x.x.x -u user -p password -M wdigest -o ACTION=enable # Dump AD creds: cme smb IP.OF.DOMAIN.CONTROLLER -u user -p password --ntds --enabled # Clean up AD dump output: cat /path/to/file.ntds | grep -iv disabled | cut -d ':' -f1,4 | grep -v

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40:28

7MS #562: Cracking and Mapping and Execing with...

7 Minute Security ·

2023/03/03

Hey friends, today we covered many things cracking and mapping and execing with CrackMapExec. Specifically: # General enumeration to see if your account works, and where: cme smb x.x.x.x -u username -p pass # Check if print services are enabled: cme smb x.x.x.x -u username -p pass -M spooler # Check for the nopac vuln: cme smb x.x.x.x -u username -p pass -M nopac # Find GP passwords: cme smb DOMAIN.CONTROLLER.IP.ADDRESS -u username -p pass -M gpp_password # Get list of targets with smb signing:

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46:09

7MS #561: Interview with Chris Furner of Blumira

7 Minute Security ·

2023/02/24

Today I sat down with Chris Furner of Blumira to talk about all things cyber insurance. Many of 7MinSec's clients are renewing their policies this time of year, and many are looking into policies for the first time. Naturally, there are a ton of questions to ask and things to think about to make good coverage decisions for your business: How do I get started in looking for a cyber policy - with my general liability insurer? Or are there companies that specialize just in cyber insurance? How do I

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12:26

7MS #560: 7MOOCH - Dolphin Rides Are Done Dude

7 Minute Security ·

2023/02/17

Hey friends, I took a mental health break this week and pre-podcasted this episode of a new series called 7MOOCH: 7 Minutes of Only Chuckles. In today's story, we unpack a situation in Hawaii that made me exclaim the following quite loudly: "Dolphin rides are done, dude!"

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22:33

7MS: #559: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 46

7 Minute Security ·

2023/02/10

Ooooo giggidy! Today's episode is about a pentest pwnage path that is super fun and interesting, and I've now seen 3-4 times in the wild. Here are some notes from the audio/video that will help bring this to life for you (oh and read this article for a great tech explanation of what's happening under the hood): Change the Responder.conf file like so: ; Custom challenge. ; Use "Random" for generating a random challenge for each requests (Default) Challenge = 1122334455667788 Run Responder

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