In today’s interconnected digital world, information security has become a critical concern for individuals, businesses, and governments alike. Cyber threats, which encompass a wide range of malicious activities targeting information systems, pose significant risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.

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Setting goals is a deceptively simple career skill we all know is important, but how do you set goals you’re actually excited to work towards?

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Whether it's forgotten temporary files, installation artifacts, READMEs, or even simple image files--default content on web servers can turn into a boon for attackers. In the most innocent of cases, these types of content can let attackers know more about the tech stack of the environment, and in the worst case scenario can lead to exploitation.

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Organizations tend to focus a significant amount of their efforts on external threats, such as phishing and ransomware, but they often overlook one of the most dangerous attack vectors on their internal networks. 

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An Infosec Survival Guide Resource, released as blog posts, with fully designed, printer-friendly PDF cheatsheets.

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DNS Triage is a reconnaissance tool that finds information about an organization's infrastructure, software, and third-party services as fast as possible. The goal of DNS Triage is not to exhaustively find every technology asset that exists on the internet. The goal is to find the most commonly abused items of interest for real attackers.

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GraphRunner is a collection of post-exploitation PowerShell modules for interacting with the Microsoft Graph API. It provides modules for enumeration, exfiltration, persistence, and more!

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Burp Suite is an intercepting HTTP proxy that can also scan a web-based service for vulnerabilities. A tool like this is indispensable for testing web applications. Burp Suite is written in Java and comes bundled with a JVM, so it works on any operating system you're likely to use.

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Impacket is an extremely useful tool for post exploitation. It is a collection of Python scripts that provides low-level programmatic access to the packets and for some protocols, such as DCOM, Kerberos, SMB1, and MSRPC, the protocol implementation itself.

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Wireshark is an incredible tool used to read and analyze network traffic coming in and out of an endpoint. Additionally, it can load previously captured traffic to assist with troubleshooting network issues or analyze malicious traffic to help determine what a threat actor is doing on your network.

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Hashcat is a powerful tool for recovering lost passwords, and, thanks to GPU acceleration, it’s one of the fastest. It works by rapidly trying different password guesses to determine the original password from its scrambled (hashed) version.

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Offensive Purpose: Efficient way to gather info about web services & their hosting infrastructure. Automates taking screenshots for quick & easy review.

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Nmap is a powerful open-source tool commonly used by system/network administrators and security professionals to perform network discovery, security auditing, and basic vulnerability assessment.

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Netcat is a network utility tool that has earned the nickname "The Swiss Army Knife" of networking. It can be used for file transfers, chat/messaging between systems, port scanning, and much more.

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Nmap, also known as Network Mapper, is a commonly used network scanning tool. As penetration testers, Nmap is a tool we use daily that is indispensable for verifying configurations and identifying potential vulnerabilities.

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Engaging with the C-suite is not just about addressing security concerns or defending budget requests. It's about establishing and maintaining an ongoing discussion that aims to align security objectives with the interests of the business.  

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This article was originally published in the SOC Issue of our PROMPT# zine, which you can read for free HERE. The information was adapted from the 2018 webcast “John Strand’s […]

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Answered by Chris Brenton of Active Countermeasures | Questions compiled from the infosec community by Shelby Perry This article was originally published in the Threat Hunting issue of our infosec […]

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In today’s world, security is more important than ever. As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive business, digital threats are becoming more sophisticated, varied, and difficult to defend against. […]

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By Ray Van Hoose, Wade Wells, and Edna Jonsson || Guest Authors This post is comprised of 3 articles that were originally published in the second edition of the InfoSec […]

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