By Troy Wojewoda During a recent Breach Assessment engagement, BHIS discovered a highly stealthy and persistent intrusion technique utilized by a threat actor to maintain Command-and-Control (C2) within the client’s […]

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One tool that I can't live without when performing a penetration test in an Active Directory environment is called NetExec. Being able to efficiently authenticate against multiple systems in the network is crucial, and NetExec is an incredibly powerful tool that helps automate a lot of this activity.

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In my journey to explore how I can use artificial intelligence to assist in penetration testing, I experimented with a security-focused chat bot created by Jason Haddix called Arcanum Cyber Security Bot (available on https://chatgpt.com/gpts). Jason engineered this bot to leverage up-to-date technical information related to application security and penetration testing.

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Espanso is a powerful cross-platform and open-source text replacement (or text expander) tool. At a simple level: it replaces what you type with something else.

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A common use case for LLMs is rapid software development. One of the first ways I used AI in my penetration testing methodology was for payload generation.

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Engaging with the C-suite is not just about addressing security concerns or defending budget requests. It's about establishing and maintaining an ongoing discussion that aims to align security objectives with the interests of the business.  

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In the most recent revision of the OWASP Top 10, Broken Access Controls leapt from fifth to first.1 OWASP describes an access control as something that “enforces policy such that […]

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Risk is real. To better understand cybersecurity risk, let’s compare cyber risks to risks in the natural world from hurricanes. We can learn lessons from hurricanes and unnamed storms in […]

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In this video, experts delve into the intricacies of desktop application penetration testing methodologies.

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Patterson Cake // In PART 1 of “Wrangling the M365 UAL,” we talked about the value of the Unified Audit Log (UAL), some of the challenges associated with acquisition, parsing, […]

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Patterson Cake // When it comes to M365 audit and investigation, the “Unified Audit Log” (UAL) is your friend. It can be surly, obstinate, and wholly inadequate, but your friend […]

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moth // Recently, BHIS penetration tester Dale Hobbs was on an Internal Network Penetration Test and came across an RPC-based arbitrary command execution vulnerability in his vulnerability scan results.  I […]

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Michael Allen // Every year around the holidays I end up having a conversation with at least one friend or family member about the importance of choosing unique passwords for […]

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Craig Vincent// This all started with a conversation I was having with a few other BHIS testers. At the time, I was testing a web application that used WebSockets. The […]

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BB King // BB King looks at testing modern web apps in that “enterprise environment” so many of us inhabit. Taking the perspective of the Lonely Application Security Person in […]

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Jordan Drysdale// tl;dr Vulnerability management is a part of doing business and operating on the public internet these days. Include training as part of this Critical Control. Users should be […]

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Brian Fehrman// Microsoft Lync servers have been a staple of my external engagements for the past six months or so. I have found a Lync server on all of those […]

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Jordan Drysdale// HERE IT IS! Finally! For the vsagent from SANS SEC504 (only the finest InfoSec course the world has ever seen!): this is a Q&D deployment guide for the […]

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BB King//* The state of Ohio recently validated a webapp pentest finding that sometimes goes overlooked. It relates to the details of administrative functions, how they can be abused, and […]

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Carrie Roberts* // (Updated, 2/11/2019) Trying to figure out the password for a password protected MS Office document? This free solution might do the trick. It attempts to guess the password […]

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