What happens when you ditch the tiered ticket queues and replace them with collaboration, agility, and real-time response? In this interview, Hayden Covington takes us behind the scenes of the BHIS Security Operations Center, which is where analysts don’t escalate tickets, they solve them.

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Imagine this: You’re an attacker ready to get their hands on valuable data that you can sell to afford going on a sweet vacation. You do your research, your recon, everything, ensuring that there’s no way this can go wrong. The day of the attack, you brew some coffee, crack your knuckles, and get started. A few hours into the service scan, you come to realize that all the network ports are open, but in use.

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In part 1 of this post, we’ll discuss how Hayabusa and “Security Operations and Forensics ELK” (SOF-ELK) can help us wrangle EVTX files (Windows Event Log files) for maximum effect during a Windows endpoint investigation!

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The Microsoft Store provides a convenient mechanism to install software without needing administrator permissions. The feature is convenient for non-corporate and home users but is unlikely to be acceptable in corporate environments. This is because attackers and malicious employees can use the Microsoft Store to install software that might violate organizational policy. 

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Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) is used to manage certificates for systems, users, applications, and more in an enterprise environment. Misconfigurations in ADCS can introduce critical vulnerabilities into an enterprise Active Directory environment.

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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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Go-Spoof brings an old tool to a new language. The Golang rewrite [of Portspoof] provides similar efficiency and all the same features of the previous tool but with easier setup and useability.

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I’ve been a web application pentester for a while now and over the years must have found hundreds of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.1 Cross-site scripting is a notoriously difficult problem […]

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In this video, John Strand discusses the complexities and challenges of penetration testing, emphasizing that it goes beyond just finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.

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Here we go again, discussing Active Directory, hacking, and detection engineering. tl;dr: One AD account can provide you with three detections that if implemented properly will catch common adversarial activities […]

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A lot of emphasis and focus is put on the investigative part of SOC work, with the documentation and less glamorous side of things brushed under the rug. One such […]

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By Erik Goldoff, Ray Van Hoose, and Max Boehner || Guest Authors This post is comprised of 3 articles that were originally published in the second edition of the InfoSec […]

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Changes to the msds-KeyCredentialLink attribute are not audited/logged with standard audit configurations. This required serious investigations and a partner firm in infosec provided us the answer: TrustedSec.  So, credit where […]

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Recently in the SOC, we were notified by a partner that they had a potential business email compromise, or BEC. We commonly catch these by identifying suspicious email forwarding rules, […]

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Start this blog series from the beginning here: PART 1 Misconfigurations in Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) can introduce critical vulnerabilities into an Enterprise environment. In this article, we will […]

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| Niccolo Arboleda | Guest Author Niccolo Arboleda is a cybersecurity enthusiast and student at the University of Toronto. He is usually found in his home lab studying different cybersecurity […]

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In An SMB Relay Race – How To Exploit LLMNR and SMB Message Signing for Fun and Profit, Jordan Drysdale shared the dangers of lack of SMB Signing requirements and […]

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| Nigel Douglas As a Developer Advocate working on Project Falco, Nigel Douglas plays a key role in driving education for the Open-Source Detection and Response (D&R) segment of cloud-native […]

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Being a digital forensics and incident response consultant is largely about unanswered questions. When we engage with a client, they know something bad happened or is happening, but they are […]

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| Alyssa Snow In PART ONE and PART TWO of this blog series, we discussed common misconfigurations of Active Directory certificate templates. In this post, we will walk through exploitation […]

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