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Category Archives: Cyber
Talking about RFC 9424 – Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and Their Role in Attack Defence
Discussing the newly published RFC 9424 and how IoCs can be used to build better defences, without relying on looking backwards. Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Cyber, General, Hardening, Incident Response, Introduction, IoCs, Windows Forensics
Tagged basics, defence in depth, folder location, hats off security, How to apply IOCs, ioc lifecycle, IoCs, IoCs Explained, pyramid of pain, rfc 9424, RFC9424, scheduled task name, sha256, understanding RFC9424
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Ringzer0team – Forensics Challenge 35 – Poor internet connection
This writeup is to explain how to get the answer (flag) to the Forensic Challenge named “Poor Internet Connection” I will not be posting the flag here as I am giving you all of the instructions to get it yourself! … Continue reading
Posted in Competitions, Cyber, Network Analytics, Network Forensics, PCAP Analysis
Tagged file carving, hats off security, hex, Network Forensics, PCAP, pcap carving, Wireshark
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Cyber Security Challenge Masterclass 2016
This year’s Cyber Security Challenge Masterclass saw over 40 contestants battling to become crowned the winner. I was fortunate enough to be invited as an assessor for the whole event. What follows are my views and interpretation of the event. … Continue reading
Types of Threat – Explained
From a high level what are the types or categories of threats faced by the Security professional? Let’s go over some basics. Internal Authorised Internal Unauthorised Internal to External External to Internal External to External (new) The first 4 are … Continue reading
USB Forensic “Roadmap”
As I have been researching and investigating USB Forensics I put together a “Roadmap” for my own personal reference. I made it using Maltego Case File and refer to it every now and then when I am attempting to remember … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, Research, USB Forensics, Windows Forensics
Tagged artefact locations, hats off security, USB, windows 7, Windows Registry Forensics, Windows8
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SANS Christmas Hacking Challenge
I thought I would write about my experiences with the Christmas Hacking Challenge by SANS, I am writing this before Christmas, but I wont publish it until after the closing date for obvious reasons 🙂 The challenge has an amazing … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Cyber, Heartbleed, Pen Testing, Research, SANS, Shellshock, USB Forensics, Windows Forensics
Tagged ../../../../, directory traversal, hats off security, heartbleed, linux, research, sans competiton, shellshock
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Research: Decoding LanmanServer\Shares
For my first fully independent research topic I chose to look at the registry key created when an object is shared. This all started with a job we were investigating recently where the indicators we were given did not turn … Continue reading
Photos and who to blame
In light of the recent apple/icloud incident I thought I would bring up a little bug bear of mine. Blaming the victim, if you are mocking the celebrities and commenting on how “it’s their own fault” please stop. Why do … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, My Two Cents
Tagged celebrity photos, hats off security, no more shaming, photo hack, who's to blame
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Incident Response Process Phase 2 – Identification
Identification I was going to do another section on Preparation, but I realised I could continue with that until the end of days. So lets move on to Identification How does the Identification phase start? There are a multitude of … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, Identification, Incident Response
Tagged hats off security, identification, Incident Reponse, Preparation
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Security Wizardry
Security Wizardry An excellent Cyber Information Portal. The Radar page is used by the NSA as seen in the photos on the site.
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