Blog Posts Tagged with "Tutorial"
Windows 8 Security in Action: Part 3
January 16, 2013 Added by:Dan Dieterle
User training about online threats and phishing defense needs to remain in place. The standard advice of not running unknown or unsolicited attachments, or visiting suspicious websites, and all the normal Social Engineering defense training remains the same...
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Windows 8 Forensics: Recycle Bin
November 27, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
The purpose of this project is to determine key differences between the Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating system from a forensic standpoint in order to determine if there are any significant changes that will be either beneficial or detrimental to the forensic investigation process...
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Windows 8 Security in Action: Part 2
November 22, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
I have noticed some changes in the way Microsoft handles their different service account passwords over the past few weeks. It first started a while back when using Microsoft Live mail. One day when I typed in my legitimate password to my e-mail account, I received this error message...
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Windows 8 Security in Action: Part 1
November 04, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Is Windows 8 the next operating system for your enterprise? In this article, we will take a quick look at Microsoft’s new OS – Windows 8. We will see some of the new security features that make it more secure than its predecessor Windows 7...
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Old School On-Target NBNS Spoofing
September 30, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
So it turns out that Windows Firewall talks IP addresses just like any other firewall, so if you configure FakeNetBIOSNS to tell everyone that the IP address for whatever they looked up is YOUR IP, guess what, no need to bypass the spoof filters...
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Metasploit Persistence
September 24, 2012 Added by:f8lerror
You pop a box, get your meterpreter shell at the end of the day. You leave your shell, come back in the morning and find out the connection dropped because the system rebooted. Luckily @Carlos_Perez/Darkoperator made a persistence script that is included in Metasploit...
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Windows 8 Forensics: Reset and Refresh Artifacts
September 24, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Everything about the machine pre-refresh can be recovered, and is placed into a folder named windows.old. Information in regards to the migration process, old vs. new mappings, and the date and time of the refresh can be found by in the $SysReset folder and the specific log...
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Recovering Login Sessions, Loaded Drivers, and Command History with Volatility
September 18, 2012 Added by:Michael Ligh
Learn about the undocumented windows kernel data structures related to RDP logon sessions, alternate process listings, and loaded drivers. See how Volatility can help you forensically reconstruct attacker command histories and full input/output console buffers...
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Raising Zombies in Windows: Passwords
September 13, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
List the tokens available with Incognito, your new user will be there, steal it and you're done. You now have the ability to user that account/domain token on any of the hosts you've compromised on the network, not just the ones they happen to have left themselves logged in...
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Cross-Protocol Chained Pass the Hash for Metasploit
August 29, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
Every so often someone writes a Metasploit Module that is pretty epic. July 12th was one such day, and as soon as you do you can start using this (using the example resource file to put a file, cat it out, enum shares available, list files on a share) then psexec all from a single URL being loaded...
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Social Engineering Toolkit: Bypassing Antivirus Using Powershell
August 22, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Just when it looked like antivirus was getting the upper hand against the Social Engineering Toolkit, David Kennedy, author of SET, showed some of the program’s new features. One is a way to get a remote shell by completely bypassing Anti-Virus using a Windows Powershell attack. Let’s look at how this works...
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Bypassing TrendMicro's Service Protections
August 20, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
It's injecting our payload into the service binary and tossing our payload into "rundll32.exe" at run time on the victim. Lets change this so it doesn't do any injection and just executes a binary. That removes the 'injection' piece and hopefully lets us get our shell...
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Metasploitable 2.0 Tutorial pt 3: Gaining Root from a Vulnerable Service
August 17, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
There are numerous Metasploitable how-to’s out there, but a lot of them focus on the standard services. In real life, which is the service that will most likely go unpatched? The main web server or some secondary service that was installed for a project and then forgotten about? So let’s get started...
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Recovering tmpfs from Linux and Android Memory Captures with Volatility
August 14, 2012 Added by:Andrew Case
Tmpfs is interesting from a forensics perspective for a few reasons. The first is that, in a traditional forensics scenario, the investigator expects that he can shut a computer off, images its disk(s), and get back the filesystem at the time of when the computer was running. With tmpfs, this is obviously not true...
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Metasploitable 2.0 Tutorial pt 2: Scanning for Network Services
August 14, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Okay, we put in 192.168.12.20 and it scanned it and returned the version of Samba that was running on it. But what if we wanted to scan the whole network for just systems running Samba. This is where the beauty of the RHOSTS command comes into play. Instead of just scanning the single host, let’s scan all 256 clients...
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Go Ahead and Write Down Your Passwords
August 07, 2012 Added by:Boris Sverdlik
Another day, another password hack, and yet another reason not to reuse passwords... Here is a simple bash script to generate strong passwords. Port it to Python or even something more platform independent. Also, don't forget to set Auto Dismount to 15 minutes, so you don't leave it up and running...
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