Malware analysis is an amazing field that can be interesting, fun, and useful for your cybersecurity career. If you’re wondering WHY anyone would want to dig into malware, it’s all for a better understanding of cybersecurity!

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This article was written to provide readers with an overview of a selection of our pentest results from the last 15 months. This data was gathered toward the end of September 2025. Shockingly, the data does not differ much from our prior analyses conducted at the end of 2022 or 2023.

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In this video, Troy Wojewoda discusses the intricacies of Zeek log analysis, focusing on how this network security monitoring system can be used to understand traffic and analyze logs effectively.

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by Jordan Drysdale and Kent Ickler tl;dr: BHIS does a lot of penetration testing in both traditional and continuous penetration testing (CPT) formats. This top ten style list was derived […]

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Click on the timecodes to jump to that part of the video (on YouTube) Slides for this webcast can be found here: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SLIDES_HowtoPrepareBeforeCompromise.pdf 00:40 Intro, background information, how to deal with […]

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Slides for this webcast can be found here: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SLIDES_AttackTactics7LogsYouAreLookingFor.pdf So we went through an attack in the BHIS Webcast, “Attack Tactics 5! Zero to Hero Attack.” Then we went through […]

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Join special guest Chris Brenton, COO of Active Countermeasures, as he discusses the anatomy of beacons and why you need to be looking for them during a threat hunt. He […]

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Joff Thyer // Information Security professionals often have reason to analyze logs. Whether Red Team or Blue Team, there are countless times that you find yourself using “grep”, “tail”, “cut”, […]

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John Strand // Want to get started on a hunt team and discover “bad things” on your network? In this webcast, we will walk through the installation and usage of […]

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John Strand // So you think you might have a compromised Windows system. If you do, where do you start? How would you review the memory of that system? What […]

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