ISSUE 22.48 • 2025-12-01 BEN’S WORKSHOP By Ben Myers The General Store, at the very center of Harvard, Massachusetts, is a one-of-a-kind place to meet and greet friends and colleagues. It offers excellent food and some occasional live performances, all in a rustic building constructed in 1850. The computer equipment used by the store is […]

Nmap is a powerful open-source tool commonly used by system/network administrators and security professionals to perform network discovery, security auditing, and basic vulnerability assessment.

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Nmap, also known as Network Mapper, is a commonly used network scanning tool. As penetration testers, Nmap is a tool we use daily that is indispensable for verifying configurations and identifying potential vulnerabilities.

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Jordan Drysdale // tl;dr BHIS made some interesting discoveries while working with a customer to audit their Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. At the time of the discovery, we found […]

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Kent Ickler & Jordan Drysdale // Preface We had a sysadmin and security professional “AA” meeting on November 8, 2018. We met and discussed things that seem to be painfully […]

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Brian Fehrman // You’ve sent your phishing ruse, the target has run the Meterpreter payload, and you have shell on their system. Now what? If you follow our blogs, you […]

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BBKing // So I’m working the other day, and my wife asks me why the TV is on. I don’t know. I didn’t turn it on. But it’s near my […]

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Rick Wisser // All right, you’ve taken all the precautions related to your network. You have lockout controls in place, you use awesome password policies (20 characters with uppercase, lowercase, […]

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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 […]

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