85% of daily work occurs in the browser. Unit 42 outlines key security controls and strategies to make sure yours is secure.

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Many web application firewalls (WAFs) can be bypassed by simply sending large amounts of extra data in the request body along with your payload. Most WAFs will only process requests up to a certain size limit. How the WAF is configured to handle these large requests determines exploitability, but some common WAFs will allow it by default.

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One tool that I can't live without when performing a penetration test in an Active Directory environment is called NetExec. Being able to efficiently authenticate against multiple systems in the network is crucial, and NetExec is an incredibly powerful tool that helps automate a lot of this activity.

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Jordan Drysdale // Overview The following description of some of Impacket’s tools and techniques is a tribute to the authors, SecureAuthCorp, and the open-source effort to maintain and extend the code. […]

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In this BHIS webcast, we cover some new techniques and tactics on how to track attackers via various honey tokens.  We cover how to track with Word Web Bugs in ADHD and […]

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Jordan Drysdale & Kent Ickler// Jordan and Kent are back with more blue team madness! The shameless duo continue their efforts to wrangle decades old attacks against wireless networks. The […]

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John Strand// In this webcast John talks about the new ACDC law and what it means exactly. There has been quite a bit of anger and great GIFs about hacking […]

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John Strand // I wanted to take a few moments and address the “Hacking Back” law that is working people up. There is a tremendously well-founded fear that this law […]

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Beau Bullock, Brian Fehrman, & Derek Banks // Pentesting organizations as your day-to-day job quickly reveals commonalities among environments. Although each test is a bit unique, there’s a typical path […]

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Derek Banks // I want to expand on our previous blog post on consolidated endpoint event logging and use Windows Event Forwarding and live off the Microsoft land for shipping […]

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Derek Banks, Beau Bullock, & Brian Fehrman // Our clients often ask how they could have detected and prevented the post-exploitation activities we used in their environment to gain elevated […]

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This is the in-studio version of our live in DC event from July. In this webcast, John covers how to set up Active Directory Active Defense (ADAD) using tools in […]

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CJ Cox // We frequently get requests from customers asking us if we provide consultation defending their systems. The other day I got a question from a customer asking us […]

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Kent Ickler // How to Configure Distributed Fail2Ban: Actionable Threat Feed Intelligence Fail2Ban is a system that monitors logs and triggers actions based on those logs. While actions can be […]

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