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subseacloud.com ASSOCIATED_WITH underwater data center
Jack directs listeners to subseacloud.com to learn more about Maxie’s underwater data center.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“You can learn more about her underwater data center at subseacloud.com.”
Maxie Reynolds AUTHORED The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals
Jack says Maxie wrote a book called The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“she wrote a book called The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals”
Darknet Diaries DEVELOPED_BY Jack Rhysider
Jack says the show is made by him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“This show is made by me, the packet tickler, Jack Rhysider”
underwater data center DEVELOPED_BY Maxie Reynolds
Maxie says she and her former boss designed and built modular underwater data centers.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“This is something we’ve made. This is something we’ve done, performed”
“I want to put data centers underwater. I want to do it in a modular fashion”
city water supply shutdown INVOLVES network penetration testing
The city water supply shutdown occurred during a network penetration test.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“I found my way to some internal environment, and I hit the killswitch on a city’s water supply.”
The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals MENTIONS attacker mindset
Maxie says the book argues that security professionals must adopt an attacker mindset.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“its central argument is that in order to design defenses that truly work, security professionals must adopt this quote, unquote, “attacker mindset””
Maxie Reynolds USES OSINT
Maxie used open-source intelligence to learn about targets and identify possible entry points.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“penetration testers often use OSINT, which is just gathering data on a target through open, public searches online”
Maxie Reynolds USES Red teaming
Maxie says red-teaming and penetration testing were the work that excited her most, and she was hired on a sanctioned red-team contract.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“I was hired on a sanctioned red team contract to test this high-security logistics company”
Maxie Reynolds USES network penetration testing
Maxie participated in network penetration testing against a local-government network.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“the two other people were very experienced network penetration testers”
Maxie Reynolds USES physical penetration testing
Maxie performed physical penetration tests, including attempting to enter buildings and facilities without using computer access.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“So, we’re just doing a physical pen test. Would you like to be involved? I jumped at the chance.”
Maxie Reynolds USES social engineering
Maxie describes her first entry into full social engineering and penetration testing in Australia.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“My first entry point into full social engineer, really, and pen testing, was in Australia”
Maxie Reynolds USES Nmap
Maxie ran Nmap during the network penetration test.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“and I got to run Nmap”
Maxie Reynolds USES ROV
Maxie uses an ROV to retrieve underwater data-center units for maintenance, drawing on her underwater-robotics background.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“The vessel goes, picks the unit up with an ROV, because that’s my background and that’s how I knew how to do it.”
underwater data center USES ROV
The underwater data-center operation uses an ROV to lift units from the seabed for maintenance.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“The vessel goes, picks the unit up with an ROV”
underwater data center USES dielectric fluid
The underwater data-center servers are filled or surrounded by dielectric fluid to reduce dust and maintenance needs.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“the servers are filled or surrounded by this dielectric fluid”
Maxie Reynolds USES NESA scan
Maxie ran a NESA scan during a network penetration test to identify vulnerabilities.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“I got to run the NESA scan”
underwater data center USES Wet-Mate cables
The underwater data centers use Wet-Mate cables for power and fiber connections.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“we’ll splice the power cable, put it in wet. So, we’ve got — offshore there are Wet-Mate, Wet-Mate cables.”
Maxie Reynolds USES IP spoofing
Jack says Maxie briefly spoofed her IP address to appear to be connecting from Russia during a test.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“she spoofed her IP at one point to make herself look like she’s coming from Russia”
Maxie Reynolds USES attacker mindset
Maxie says she was fascinated by and spent substantial time thinking about the attacker mindset in her penetration-testing work.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“That attacker mindset was something she spent a lot of time thinking about.”
ThreatLocker ASSOCIATED_WITH zero-trust
Danny presents ThreatLocker’s deny-by-default and access-granting model as a way to implement zero-trust principles.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Danny Jenkins EP 167 Details
“we can deploy application control. We can block software by default”
“We want to change the market so that ninety percent of the world are using a zero-trust approach”
ThreatLocker DEVELOPED_BY Danny Jenkins
Danny says he is ThreatLocker’s CEO and co-founder and that he coded its first version.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Danny Jenkins EP 167 Details
“I’m Danny Jenkins. I’m CEO and co-founder of ThreatLocker”
“I coded the first of it. So, I coded the first version”
ThreatLocker hospital ransomware incident INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA VPN
The threat actor obtained domain-administrator credentials from the dark web and used them to remotely access the environment through the VPN.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Hunter Clark EP 167 Details
“was able to just remote in through the VPN”
ThreatLocker hospital ransomware incident INVOLVES ThreatLocker
Ark’s team installed ThreatLocker on the hospital’s servers and computers, and ThreatLocker later blocked tools the threat actor attempted to use.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 167 Details
“we brought in ThreatLocker, installed it on all the servers and computers”
“ThreatLocker had blocked the solutions that the threat actor had planned on leveraging”
ThreatLocker manufacturing ransomware incident INVOLVES Windows
The manufacturing-company incident encrypted all 250 Windows servers.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Guest EP 167 Details
“Yes, they were all Windows servers”
ThreatLocker hospital ransomware incident INVOLVES EDR
The hospital incident involved an EDR/MDR solution that detected activity in the environment.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Hunter Clark EP 167 Details
“we got a call from the EDR/MDR solution that we were using that there was someone in the environment”