7 Minute Security Podcast

7 Minute Security

Brian Johnson
7 Minute Security is a weekly information security podcast focusing on penetration testing, blue teaming and building a career in security. The podcast also features in-depth interviews with industry leaders who share their insights, tools, tips and tricks for being a successful security engineer.
7MS #631: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 58
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 Snaffler log and turns it into an interactive Web app! RubeusToCcache – a small tool to convert Base64-encoded .kirbi tickets from Rubeus into .ccache files for Impacket
Jul 7
15 min
7MS #630: Epic Road Trip Served with Security Sprinkles
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 Security) The moment we though our credit card was stolen at a waterpark A shameless plug for our fun interview with Stu the recruiter Some internal pentest tips that have given us some gold in recent assessments Super fast, spoiler-free movie reviews of Roadhouse, Arcadian, Late Night with the Devil and The Coffee Table
Jul 1
45 min
7MS #629: Interview with Stu Musil of Ambient Consulting
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 recruiter doesn’t even have a LinkedIn page, that’s probably a red flag) Resume tips: Finding the right length and tone Tailoring your resume for each individual job Highlighting your strengths Do people still use cover letters when applying to a gig? Is a “hobbies and interests” section still a good idea on a resume (to show them you’re not a robot who works 24/7)? Lets talk about some horror and/or success stories from the world of recruiting!
Jun 24
46 min
7MS #628: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying – Part 17
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 domain is expiring (maybe that passion project is never gonna happen…time to let those old domains go 🙂 Making a spreadsheet of all important accounts and checking all the auth methods allowed for each account – to prevent attacks such as SIM-swapping
Jun 14
9 min
7MS #627: Migrating from vCenter to Proxmox – Part 2
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 helps to RTFM. When getting a bare-metal OS/hypervisor installed, be careful in that the provider may leave the management ports of that host open to the whole world.  In OVH’s case, they have a software firewall that can be tuned so that, for example, only you can hit the management ports for the box. Getting VLANs setup is a snap once the virtual hardware stuff is in place.
Jun 10
35 min
7MS #626: Web Pentesting Pastiche
Hey friends, today we’ve got a security milkshake episode about Web app pentesting. Specifically we talk about: Burp Suite Enterprise Caido – a lightweight alternative to Burp wfuzz – Web fuzzer.  Using a proxy:wfuzz -c -z file,/usr/share/wfuzz/wordlist/Injections/XSS.txt –sc 200 “https://somedomain.com/shopping?&qty=%2FUZZ” -p 10.0.7.11:8080 KNOXSS – for XSS testing – pairs nicely with this wrapper: https://github.com/xnl-h4ck3r/knoxnl In the tangent dept, I moan about how I hate some things about Proxmox but am also starting to love it. In the tangent #2 department, I talk about tinnitus and acupuncture!
May 31
50 min
7MS #625: A Peek into the 7MS Mail Bag - Part 4
Road trip time! I’ve been traveling this week doing some fun security projects, and thought all this highway time would be a perfect opportunity to take a dip into the 7MS mail bag!  Today’s questions include: How do you price internal network penetration tests? Have you ever had to deal with a difficult client situation, and how did you resolve it? Are you done going after certs?  Spoiler: no – I’m interested in doing the XINTRA labs (not sure if it includes a cert) Do you provide managed services or just stick with more “one and done” assessment work? You said the “smart business people” tell you to form reseller partnerships, otherwise you’re leaving money on the table – so why don’t you? I’m thinking of starting my own cybersecurity consultancy – what type of insurance do I need to protect me in case of a digital “oops?”
May 24
44 min
7MS #624: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 57
Today’s tale of pentest pwnage is all about my new favorite attack called SPN-less RBCD. We did a teaser episode last week that actually ended up being a full episode all about the attack, and even step by step commands to pull it off.  But I didn’t want today’s episode to just be “Hey friends, check out the YouTube version of this attack!” so I also cover: Our first first impressions of Burp Enterprise Why I have a real hard time believing you have to follow all these steps to install Kali on Proxmox
May 17
29 min
7MS #623: Prelude to a Tale of Pentest Pwnage
Today’s prelude to a tale of pentest pwnage talks about something called “spnless RBCD” (resource-based constrained delegation).  The show notes don't format well here in the podcast notes, so head to 7minsec.com to see the notes in all their glory.
May 10
24 min
7MS #622: Migrating from vCenter to Proxmox - Part 1
Sadly, the Broadcom acquisition of VMWare has hit 7MinSec hard – we love running ESXi on our NUCs, but ESXi free is no longer available.  To add insult to injury, our vCenter lab at OVHcloud HQ got a huge price gouge (due to license cost increase; not OVH’s fault).  Now we’re exploring Proxmox as an alternative hypervisor, so we’re using today’s episode to kick off a series about the joys and pains of this migration process.
May 5
16 min
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