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John Strand // Ok, that was a bit of a dramatic title. But, it works. In this Black Hills Information Security (BHIS) webcast, John covers the tips and tricks on how to effectively present technical topics to large and small groups. This presentation includes, but is not limited to: crotch sniffing dogs, heart attacks, how to effectively deal with chafing, don’t drink the water, choosing the right...

Have you ever installed a Python tool / library only to then find out other Python based tools you’ve installed previously are now completely broken? Running Kali? Ever try installing a Python tool with apt-get and another with pip? (00:00) - PreShow Banter™ – Jokes Not Safe For Work (11:31) - PreShow Banter™ – SponsorWare for GitHub (20:13) - Feature Presentation: Pretty Little Python Secrets (25...

CJ and Bryan will share the knowledge they’ve accumulated, by helping 1,000’s of organizations determine what they need and don’t need when it comes to penetration tests and security assessments, over the years. Topics Covered: * Selecting the type of test * Selecting the company to test * When to test * Issues around conducting a test This webcast is for penetration testers and offensive security...

Jordan Drysdale & Kent Ickler // Jordan and Kent are back again to continue strengthening organizations’ information security human capital (That’s all you folks!). Organization Leadership and Security Practitioners can gain understanding on the potential designed-to-fail Purple Teams initiatives never reached their full potential. The Duo reviews how systemic organizational career pathing cre...

This is a joint webcast between Black Hills Information Security and the Wild West Hackin’ Fest conference. We hate ransomware. Like a lot. This is because we feel this is the future of cyber attacks. If you look at the recent cases and the newish versions that involve extortion, there is nothing to like. Well, almost nothing. In this webcast, we cover what you can do to prepare (trust us, we have...

So much information about testing webapps for security problems is old. Don’t get me wrong, the old stuff still works way more often than we’d like, but there’s more to webapp vulnerabilities than cross-site scripting and SQL injection. Take JWTs – JSON Web Tokens – for example. These are base64 encoded tokens that sometimes get written to your browser’s localStorage or sessionStorage and passed a...

Joff Thyer has dove into everything that is IPv6 and has so much to share about it. He gets really technical but in a way you’ll be able to understand. Google reports that over 30% of their systems access comes via the IPv6 protocol coming into 2020. Many Internet Service Providers have no remaining choice but to deploy IPv6 for simple lack of v4 address resources. The global Internet can already...

Join us in the Black Hills InfoSec Discord server to keep the security conversation going! https://discord.gg/bhis Reach out to Black Hills Infosec if you need pentesting, threat hunting, ACTIVE SOC, incident response, or blue team services: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com In this Black Hills Information Security webcast John breakdowns why he hates threat intelligence... Again... But, he breaks...

Kent and Jordan are back to continue their journey to make the world a better place. This time around, they will be reviewing a series of tools commonly used on pentests to identify flaws in Active Directory and general network design and implementation. You’ve probably heard of most of them, like BloodHound, ADExplorer, mimikatz…, wait, Mimikatz as a Blue Team? Yeah, it might be a bit of a stretc...

Job hunting? Looking for a career change? Still in college and want to know how to get started now in your career? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this might be the BHIS webcast for you. This webcast is an update to Jason’s popular recorded DerbyCon 2016 talk — How to Social Engineer Your Way Into Your Dream Job. If you don’t want to wait, you can watch that now. https://youtu.be/__...

Join the BHIS Discord discussion server: https://discord.gg/aHHh3u5 We’re really excited to have a close member of our BHIS extended family, Tim Medin from Red Siege InfoSec, here for a webcast on Kerberos & Attacks 101. Tim is the creator of Kerberoasting. Want to understand how Kerberos works? Would you like to understand modern Kerberos attacks? If so, then join Tim Medin as he walks you th...

I like webapps, don’t you? Webapps have got to be the best way to learn about security. Why? Because they’re self-contained and so very transparent. You don’t need a big ol’ lab before you can play with them. You can run them in a single tiny VM or even tiny-er Docker image on your laptop. And so long as you’re attacking your own stuff, it’s easy to stay out of trouble. You’re up and running in th...

This is a joint webcast from Black Hills Information Security and Active Countermeasures. How many of us have tried some new configuration option, utility, or hardware on a production environment, only to crash a critical piece of the business? (me raising hand…) It’s amazing how quickly we learn not to do that! Now we have to decide – do we stop trying out new things because we’re scared of causi...

What does it mean to work from home across your corporate VPN? What exactly is VPN? Is your home office prepared? How can you improve and better secure your home network? Is your corporate network ready for the change in IT environment network access? Join us to explore these topics, and describe some potential actions you can take to improve your home office and network environment. And join the...

The team at Black Hills Information Security and Wild West Hackin’ Fest had to pivot from doing an in-person information security conference in San Diego to a 100% virtual conference with 6 days of notice. We had a little bit of experience doing a hybrid in-person/virtual conference in November 2019 (with 10 days’ notice). The response from the 400+ attendees about the virtual conference was overw...

In this webcast, we will cover what we can do if we think there is a breach on our network. We will cover live forensics, cool PowerShell scripts, network, and event log analysis, cool IR spreadsheets, and checklists. We will also be covering the status of our ELK project for reviewing Event ID 3 from Sysmon. So, a lot… Yep… A crazy amount. Download slides: https://www.activecountermeasures.com/pr...

Do you know what your attackers know? There’s a good chance you know, but you might not be aware of just how much information can be found historically and in real-time about your business operations and organization. Join Jordan Drysdale and Kent Ickler as they discuss and demonstrate Purple Team Enterprise Reconnaissance methods that increase operational network awareness and overall security po...

In this webcast, we have our friend Hal Pomeranz sharing his massive knowledge on Linux. If you’re new to Linux, or if you know it and just want to hear from Hal’s years of using and teaching all things Linux, then this is the webcast for you. Download slides: http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/CLDojo.pdf 0:00 – Intro to Hal 9000 4:05 – It’s A UNIX System 7:34 – Who’s Trying Naughty URLS? 27:07 – Care A...

Backdoors & Breaches kind of took off. In case you don’t know, Backdoors & Breaches is an Incident Response Card Game to help people better understand the various attacks and defenses used in security today. We have sold out twice on Amazon, given out thousands of copies for free at conferences, and sent 2,000+ free decks to infosec educators (with a few thousand more decks to go). As a st...

Ever wanted to get started in cyber deception? Ever wanted to do it for free? In this BHIS webcast, we will cover some basic, legal, and easy tools/techniques to get you started in working with low interaction honeypots to serve as an early warning of attacks. We will also be sharing a recipe for making wine out of pentester tears. Because attacker tears make the best wine. Download slides: https:...

https://media.blubrry.com/bhis/content.blubrry.com/bhis/BHIS_Podcast_Passwords_Youaretheweakestlink.mp3 Why are companies still recommending an 8-character password minimum?  Passwords are some of the easiest targets for attackers, yet companies still allow weak passwords in their environment. Multiple service providers recommend 8-character minimum passwords based on outdated data.  Download Slid...

Want to learn how attackers bypass endpoint products? Download slides: https://www.activecountermeasures.com/presentations/ 3:41 – Alternate Interpreters 9:19 – Carbon Black Config Issue 15:07 – Cisco AMP EDR – Quick and Easy Bypass 18:24 – PowerShell AMSI Bypass – Rhino 19:07 – CylancePROTECT Bypass 24:14 – Windows Defender and Carbon Black Bypass 30:36 – Windows Subsystem for Linux 39:59 – Power...

BHIS’ Defensery Driven Duo Delivers Another Delectable Transmission! We know you are worried about your networks. After hours of discussion, we’ve come to the realization that some of our dedicated followers seem to be much more interested in catching malware than learning how to be (please forgive this next statement) “l33t hax0rs.” Download slides: https://www.activecountermeasures.com/presentat...

In this podcast (originally recored as a live webcast), we talk about the 2020 End of Life for Python2. We address what the short, and medium term impacts will likely be. Key language differences will be highlighted with techniques to modify your code to be forward compatible. As a SANS instructor teaching SEC573: Automating Information Security with Python, over the past three years, I have stead...

Download slides: https://www.activecountermeasures.com/presentations In this webcast we walk through the step-by-step defenses to stop the attackers in every step of the way we showed in Attack Tactics Part 5!!!