Storm Chasing: How We Hacked Your Cloud
Beau Bullock // Overview The traditional methodology of a remote attacker who has no preconceptions of a target network used to be fairly static. With organizations moving to “the cloud”, […]
Red Team
Nessus & Nmap
Sally Vandeven // In a recent conversation with Paul Asadoorian, he mentioned a Nessus plugin called nmapxml. He was not sure how well it worked but suggested I try it […]
Phishing with PowerPoint
Carrie Roberts & Chevy Swanson // How do we make sure people open up our malicious files and execute them? We simply let Microsoft work for years and years to gain […]
Advanced Msfvenom Payload Generation
Joff Thyer // It has been known for some time that an executable payload generated with msfvenom can leverage an alternative template EXE file, and be encoded to better evade […]
TestSSL.sh –Assessing SSL/TLS Configurations at Scale
David Fletcher // Have you ever looked at Nessus scan results to find the below in the output? Recently I was on engagement and encountered just this situation. I found […]
Internal Pivot, Network Enumeration, & Lateral Movement
Joff Thyer // Picture a scenario whereby you are involved in an internal network penetration test. Perhaps you have succeeded with a spear-phishing campaign and landed on an internal system, […]
How to Bypass Application Whitelisting & AV
Brian Fehrman // There are numerous methods that have been published to bypass Anti-Virus products. As a result, many companies are beginning to realize that application whitelisting is another tool […]
Poking Holes in the Firewall: Egress Testing With AllPorts.Exposed
Beau Bullock // If you have been even remotely in touch with technology in the past thirty years you have probably heard of this thing called a “firewall”. If not, […]
Three Minutes with the HTTP TRACE Method
Brian King // All of our scanning tools tell us that we should disable the HTTP TRACE and TRACK methods. And we all think that’s because there’s something an attacker […]