Christmas is the time where we allow our imaginations to run wild, it’s the season of goodwill, high spirits and Christmas joy. However, cybercriminals don’t take holidays. We still have to be on our guard, and question what is real and what is not. Common Holiday Scams Fake Online Stores Around this time of year, […]

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Key takeaways: MITDR explained: Managed ITDR combines identity threat detection with expert-led response. Why it matters: Get better protection and lower costs without building a full in-house team. What to look for: Prioritize behavioral monitoring, real-time response, and expert oversight You’ve got the ITDR solution. That’s a good step towards effective account and identity-based threat […]

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I’ve worked in cybersecurity long enough to see that our biggest challenge isn’t a technical one, it’s motivational. We can build the strongest firewalls, design the smartest detection systems, and run endless awareness campaigns, but none of it matters if people don’t want to care. That’s the uncomfortable truth; cyber security has a motivation problem. […]

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Hi everyone! I partnered with Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference as an Industry Supporter. The West edition of the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference will take place October 27-29, 2025 at the Town & Country...

Volatility is a memory forensics tool that can pull SAM hashes from a vmem file. These hashes can be used to escalate from a local user or no user to a domain user leading to further compromise.

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In this video, Ethan Robish discusses the fundamentals and intricacies of data analytics using SQL.

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The following contains newly released Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Malware Analysis and OSINT training and tools from October, as well as upcoming live online training and events for November. Like the Free & Affordable Training...

Jordan Drysdale // Summary! There are tons of security event management (SIEM) solutions available these days, but this blog will focus on Microsoft Sentinel. Sentinel is easy to deploy, logs […]

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Slides for this webcast can be found here: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SLIDES_AttackTactics7LogsYouAreLookingFor.pdf So we went through an attack in the BHIS Webcast, “Attack Tactics 5! Zero to Hero Attack.” Then we went through […]

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Download slides: https://www.activecountermeasures.com/presentations In this webcast we walk through the step-by-step defenses to stop the attackers in every step of the way we showed in Attack Tactics Part 5!!! Originally recorded […]

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Slides for this webcast can be found here: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SLIDES_AttackTactics6ReturnofBlueTeam.pdf In this webcast we walk through the step-by-step defenses to stop the attackers in every step of the way we showed […]

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Timecode links take you to YouTube: 4:11 – Infrastructure & Background8:28 – Overview & Breakdown of Attack Methodology and Plans11:35 – Start of Attack (Gaining Access), Password Spraying Toolkit15:24 – […]

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Join John Strand as he continues his Attack Tactic series this time with the defense ideas for the attacks mentioned in episode 3 (see more here) To see the entire […]

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John Strand// For this next installment of our Attack Tactics webcast series, John Strand looks at an environment that had no Active Directory. This is odd, but it’s becoming more […]

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John talked about how we’d attack, here’s how you can defend against those attacks. Grab the slides here: https://blackhillsinformationsecurity.shootproof.com/gallery/6843799/

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This is the audio only version of John’s webcast about how we would attack your company during a pentest. Grab his slides here:  https://blackhillsinformationsecurity.shootproof.com/gallery/6843799/

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John Strand // This is the second part of our series about Attack Tactics, sponsored by our sister company, Active Countermeasures. In the first part we discussed how we’d attack. […]

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John Strand // John is starting a new series of webcasts called Attack Tactics. This first part  is a step-by-step walk-through of an attack BHIS launched against a customer, with […]

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John Strand // In the last webcast we covered initial Windows Live Forensics (see the recording here), in this one we play with memory from a compromised system. We cover the […]

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John Strand // So you think you might have a compromised Windows system. If you do, where do you start? How would you review the memory of that system? What […]

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