Jack Rhysider USES Raspberry Pi
Jack set up a file-sharing website on a Raspberry Pi at home.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“I set up a file-sharing website at home on a Raspberry Pi.”
Episode
09 July 2019 Official episode · Official transcript
penetration test social engineering incident response
Three stories cover a retail penetration test involving physical intrusion and network access, a web-server compromise investigated by a university security engineer, and an insider-surveillance investigation involving physical bugs and administrative abuse.
Topics: Physical penetration testing, Social engineering and impersonation, Retail point-of-sale network access, RFID badge cloning, Cellular network TAP devices, SQL injection, Root compromise and privilege escalation, Incident response and forensic analysis, Password hash cracking, Intrusion detection systems, Cryptomining detection, Windows Active Directory and Group Policy surveillance, Insider threats, Out-of-band communications, Physical surveillance and covert audio devices
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Jack Rhysider USES Raspberry Pi
Jack set up a file-sharing website on a Raspberry Pi at home.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“I set up a file-sharing website at home on a Raspberry Pi.”
Jack Rhysider USES Intrusion Detection System
Jack deployed an intrusion detection system to detect attempted attacks against his website.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“I set up all my best sensors I had at home; a firewall, an intrusion detection system”
Jack Rhysider USES Security Onion
Jack used Security Onion for full packet captures while monitoring the website.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“full packet captures using Security Onion”
Mr. Robot MENTIONS Dave Kennedy
A clip from Mr. Robot uses Dave Kennedy's name as Elliot's fake identity.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“Elliot uses Dave Kenney as his fake name”
Elliot USES social engineering
In the described Mr. Robot clip, Elliot attempts to social engineer his way into a meeting.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“tries to social engineer his way into a meeting”
Dave Kennedy MEMBER_OF Diebold
Dave became Chief Security Officer at Diebold.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Dave Kennedy EP 42 Details
“be the Chief Security Officer over at Diebold”
TrustedSec DEVELOPED_BY Dave Kennedy
Dave says he started TrustedSec, initially in the basement of his house.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dave Kennedy EP 42 Details
“I started it literally in the basement of my house”
Binary Defense DEVELOPED_BY Dave Kennedy
Dave says he started Binary Defense as a separate company from TrustedSec.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dave Kennedy EP 42 Details
“I started Binary Defense and they’re both two different companies”
Dave Kennedy USES social engineering
Dave's security testing work used social engineering, including impersonation and diversion tactics.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“This is one of Dave’s specialties; social engineering”
Dave Kennedy USES TAP device
During a retail security engagement, Dave's team used cellular TAP devices to obtain direct network access.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dave Kennedy EP 42 Details
“We have these little devices that we call TAP devices”
Dave Kennedy USES badge cloning
Dave's team cloned an employee's badge to gain access to the data center.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dave Kennedy EP 42 Details
“We cloned his badge at the same time.”
Dave Kennedy USES RFID
Dave's badge-cloning operation targeted RFID proximity badges.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“We noticed to get into the data center, you need an RFID badge.”
Clay works in an environment with many Linux machines and investigates Linux servers.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Clay EP 42 Details
“we have a lot of Linux machines”
Clay USES Intrusion Detection System
Clay's environment uses an IDS to alert on cryptomining activity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Clay EP 42 Details
“We have an IDS in place. That’s typically how we’ll be notified”
Clay USES John the Ripper
Clay used John the Ripper to crack the root password hash during incident response.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Clay EP 42 Details
“That’s when I started to run John the Ripper on it.”
SQL injection DISCOVERED_BY Clay
Clay isolated the web application's vulnerability to pages affected by SQL injection.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Clay EP 42 Details
“I was able to isolate it to one of two pages that had this vulnerability.”
Clay MEMBER_OF WOPR Summit
Clay is described as an organizer for the WOPR Summit.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“Clay also is an organizer [00:40:00] for the WOPR Summit.”
Phobos Group DEVELOPED_BY Viss
Viss says he started Phobos Group after leaving a company that stopped paying its employees.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“So, he started his own company which was pretty much the same company but since the people were all looking for jobs, Viss just scooped them up and took the talent with him, including his co-founder, Ali. They called it the Phobos Group.”
Phobos Group DEVELOPED_BY Ali
Ali is identified as a co-founder of Phobos Group.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 42 Details
“including his co-founder, Ali. They called it the Phobos Group.”
Viss MEMBER_OF Phobos Group
Viss says he runs Phobos Group.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Viss EP 42 Details
“I run Phobos Group.”
Active Directory USES Group Policy
The episode explains that Active Directory can use Group Policy to perform surveillance on workstations.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Viss EP 42 Details
“You can configure Windows Active Directory to use GPO”
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