Melisa Wachs// The first day of school starting soon for your school-age kiddos. What better time to run through some of our basic reporting guidelines with y’all? Here is a short list of points I’ve learned after ten years of reading and editing pen test reports here at Black Hills Information Security. DO: Set up […]
Matthew Toussain// Join Matt Toussain as he talks about Mailsniper, a tool written by our very own Beau Bullock. Wouldn’t you like to START your pen tests knowing every username for all the individuals in your target environment? Gmail, G Suite, Outlook Web Access, Exchange Web Services… Email. A divine gift issued to hackers with […]
This is the audio only version of John’s webcast about how we would attack your company during a pentest. Grab his slides here: https://blackhillsinformationsecurity.shootproof.com/gallery/6843799/
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Dakota Nelson// For a lot of our customers, their first introduction to pentesting is a vulnerability scan from BHIS. This is after talking to the testers, of course, and setting up rules of engagement, sharing which hosts are within scope, and talking over how we, as testers here at BHIS, can best help secure their […]
Jordan Drysdale// Physical Pentest Upcoming? Bring a Badgy. While badge reproduction may not be the intended use of this product, if you are a physical tester and you don’t own one, you need to get one. https://www.badgy.com/products/badgy-200.html While stuffing this thing in my suitcase was the obvious choice, maybe in the future I’ll avoid the […]
Brian Fehrman // Privilege escalation is a common goal for threat actors after they have compromised a system. Having elevated permissions can allow for tasks such as: extracting local password-hashes, dumping clear text credentials from memory, and installing persistent back doors on the system. Insecurely-configured Windows Services can be one avenue for privilege escalation. Windows […]
Joff Thyer // If you have been penetration testing a while, you likely have ended up in a Red Team situation or will be engaged in it soon enough. From a command channel perspective, the work that Raphael Mudge has put into Cobalt Strike makes it an attractive platform for teamwork. Unlike traditional methods of […]
Beau Bullock, Brian Fehrman, & Derek Banks // Pentesting organizations as your day-to-day job quickly reveals commonalities among environments. Although each test is a bit unique, there’s a typical path to “winning” that present themselves over and over. Expensive, difficult to configure, and cumbersome to maintain tools exist to help prevent and alert on some […]
