Adam Baldwin (@adam_baldwin) Director of Security, npm https://foundation.nodejs.org/ https://spring.io/understanding/javascript-package-managers Role in the NodeJS project Advisory? Active role? Maintain security modules? Are there any requirements to being a dev? Are there different roles in the NodeJS environment? Is there any review of syst ...…

Where in the world is Ms. Amanda Berlin? Keynoting hackerconWV Election Security Cuyahoga County: Intro: Jeremy Mio (@cyborg00101 Name? Why are you here? Discussing Ohio does election operations. Walk through the process Pre-Elections Elections Night Post Elections All about the C.I.A. Votes must be confidential Votes must not be compromised (i ...…

@IanColdwater https://www.redteamsecure.com/ *new gig* So many different moving parts Plugins Code Hardware She’s working on speaking schedule for 2019 How would I use these at home? https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/ Kubernetes - up and running https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Running-Dive-Future-Infrastructure/dp/1491935677 General w ...…

Jarrod Frates Inguardians @jarrodfrates “Skittering Through Networks” Ms. Berlin in Germany - How’d it go? TinkerSec’s story: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1063423110513418240.html Takeaways Blue Team: - Least Privilege Model - Least Access Model “limited remote access to only a small number of IT personnel” “This user didn't need Citrix, ...…

Ian Coldwater- @IanColdwater https://www.redteamsecure.com/ *new gig* So many different moving parts Plugins Code Hardware She’s working on speaking schedule for 2019 How would I use these at home? https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/ Kubernetes - up and running https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Running-Dive-Future-Infrastructure/dp/14919 ...…

@InfoSecSherpa I have two talks coming up: Empathy as a Service to Create a Culture of Security at the Cofense Submerge conference Deep Dive into Social Media as an OSINT Tool at the H-ISAC Fall Summit (Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center) *Shameless Plug* My Nuzzel newslettershttps://nuzzel.com/InfoSecSherpa https://nuzzel.com/InfoS ...…

Health & Tech? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/amazon-patents-alexa-tech-to-tell-if-youre-sick-depressed-and-sell-you-meds/ https://hackaday.io/project/151388-minder (774 results for “health” on hackaday) (def don’t need to talk about, but still funny AF) https://hackaday.io/project/11407-myflow https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/15/apple-watc ...…

Derbycon is probably one of the best infosec conferences of the calendar year. The podcast always has so much fun meeting listeners, meeting new people, and getting some audio to share with folks who can't be there. This year, we still got some audio, and it's great. We talked with Cheryl Biswas (@3ncr1pt3d) with her talks at #Derbycon and her ...…

Pizza Party Link - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brakesec-derbycon-pizza-meetup-tickets-50719385046 News stories- Software/library bloat http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f https://gbhackers.com/hackers-abusing-windows-management-interface-command-tool-to-deliver-malw ...…

Interesting email from one of our listeners. Detailing an issue that came up on a client engagement. We walk through best ways to store information post-engagement, and what you need to do to document test procedures so you don't get bit by a potential issue perhaps months down the line. Check out our Store on Teepub! https://brakesec.com/store ...…

Part 2 of our interview with Chris Hadnagy Discuss more about his book, best ways to setup your pre-text in an engagement how you might read someone on a poker table a great story about Chris's favorite person “Neil Fallon” from the rock band “Clutch” and we talk about “innocent lives foundation”, something near and dear to Chris' heart. We sta ...…

Christopher Hadnagy Interview: Origin story connoisseur of moonshine Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking 2nd Edition Sponsored Link (paperback on Amazon): https://amzn.to/2NKxLD9 SEORG book list: https://www.social-engineer.org/resources/seorg-book-list/ Chris’ Podcast: https://www.social-engineer.org/podcast/ SECTF at Derby (conte ...…

We are back with a new episode this week! We got over our solutions for some of the #derbyCon ticket #CTF challenges and include links to some of the challenges. We talk about Windows Event Forwarder, and all log forwarders seem to losing events! Thanks to our Patrons! Gonna be at Derbycon, come see us! Congrats to our Derbycon Ticket CTF winne ...…

CTF information: Official site: https://scoreboard.totallylegitsite.com (thanks Matt Domko (@hashtagcyber) for hosting and allowing us to use his employee discount!) Please do not pentest the environment, not DDoS, nor cause anything undesirable to happen to the site. View the page, submit the flags, leave everything else alone... Derbycon Auct ...…

Post-Hacker Summercamp IppSec Walkthroughs Brakesec Derbycon ticket CTF - Drama - (hotel room search gate) AirconditionerGate Personal privacy Ask for ID Call the front desk Use the deadbolt - can be bypassed Plug the peephole with TP Hotel rooms aren’t secure (neither are the safes) Probably the most hostile environment infosec people go into ...…

HTTPS on www.brakeingsecurity.com, Libsyn RSS syncing of itunes/google Play is over TLS Amanda giving a talk at Diana Initiative Derbycon Talk - mental health Volunteer/Topic request form - https://goo.gl/forms/wAiLW5Dh5h0MR5bO2 http://www.hexacorn.com/blog/2018/07/29/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-82/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/teamdhcp/ ...…

Godfrey Daniels - author of "Adventures with the Mojave Phone Booth" on sale at mojavephoneboothbook.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_phone_booth https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-mojave-phone-booth-1474047 https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mojave-phone-booth-back-number/ https://www.npr.org/2014/08/22/342430204/the-mojave-phone-booth https:// ...…

Stories and topics we covered: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neutralized-employee-phishing/ https://osquery.io/ https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurers-are-vacuuming-up-details-about-you-and-it-could-raise-your-rates https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-sirt-releases-diffy-a-differencing-engine-for-d ...…

Sorry, this week's show took an odd turn, and we don't have much in the way of show notes... Ms. Berlin is recovering from knee surgery, and we wish her a speedy recovery. Bryan B. got back from BsidesSPFD, MO this week, after what was a well-received talk on building community. Lots of other excellent talks from speakers like Ms. Sunny Wear , ...…

Ben Caudill @rhinosecurity Spencer Gietzen @spengietz Rhino Security - https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/blog/ AWS escalation and mitigation blog - https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/aws-privilege-escalation-methods-mitigation/ What is the difference between this and something like Scout or Lynis? Is it a forensic or IR tool? How might offensive peo ...…

Raymond Evans - CTF organizer for nolacon and Founder of CyDefe Labs @cydefe CTF setup / challenges of setting up a CTF. Beginners & CTFs Types tips/tricks Biggest downfalls of CTF development https://www.heroku.com/ www.exploit-db.com BrakeSec DerbyCon @dragosinc dragos.com DNS Enumeration: https://github.com/nixawk/pentest-wiki/blob/master/1. ...…

After the recent Tesla insider threat event, BrakeSec decided to discuss some of the indicators of insider threat, what can be done to mitigate it, and why it happens. news stories referenced: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/teslas-tough-lesson-on-malicious/ https://www.scmagazine.com/tesla-hit-by-insider-saboteur-who-changed-code-ex ...…

Area41 Zurich report Book Club - 4th Tuesday of the month https://www.owasp.org/images/d/d3/TLS_v1.3_Overview_OWASP_Final.pdf https://www.owasp.org/index.php/TLS_Cipher_String_Cheat_Sheet TLS_DHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA256 TLS = Protocol DHE = Diffie-Hellman ephemeral (provides Perfect Forward Secrecy) Perfect Forward Secrecy = session keys won’t b ...…

https://nostarch.com/packetanalysis3 -- Excellent Book! You must buy it. DetSEC mention ShowMe Con panel and keynote SeaSec East standing room only. Crispin gave a great toalk about running as Standard user Bsides Cleveland - https://www.passwordping.com/surprising-new-password-guidelines-nist/ 1Password version 7.1 integrates with Troy Hunt's ...…

Ms. Berlin’s mega tweet on protecting your network https://twitter.com/InfoSystir/status/1000109571598364672 Utica College CYB617 I tweeted “utica university” many pardons Mr. Childress’ high school class Laurens, South Carolina Probably spent as much as a daily coffee at Starbucks… makes all the difference. CTF Club, and book club (summer read ...…

https://darknetdiaries.com/ Jack Rhysider Ok I think these topics should keep us busy for a while. Topics for discussion: Do hospitals have a free pass when being attacked? #OPJUSTINA https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/28/anonymous-takes-on-boston-childrens-hospital-in-opjustina/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVBz_ATAlU - when anonymou ...…

Vuln mgmt tools CVE scores suck. Threat modeling is good. Forces you to know your environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban https://blog.jeremiahgrossman.com/2018/05/all-these-vulnerabilities-rarely-matter.html https://twitter.com/lnxdork/status/998559649271025664 https://www.google.com/search?q=house+centipede&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS759US759&s ...…

Converge Detroit Jack Rhysider- Podcaster, DarkNet Diaries https://darknetdiaries.com/ Do hospitals have a free pass when being attacked? #OPJUSTINA https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/28/anonymous-takes-on-boston-childrens-hospital-in-opjustina/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFVBz_ATAlU - when anonymous attacks your hospital The oldest ...…

GDPR will affect any information system that processes or will process people… like it or not. Derby Tickets CTF and auction Keynote Converge Detroit I’ll be at nolacon too Boettcher Recap BDIR #3 https://blog.netwrix.com/2018/05/01/five-reasons-to-ditch-manual-data-classification-methods/ https://blog.networksgroup.com/data-loss-prevention-fun ...…

Container security Jay Beale @inguardians , @jaybeale Containers What the heck is a container? Linux distribution with a kernel Containers run on top of that, sharing the kernel, but not the filesystem Namespaces Mount Network Hostname PID IPC Users Somebody said we’ve had containers since before Docker Containers started in 2005, with OpenVZ D ...…

Report from Bsides Nash - Ms. Berlin New Job Keynote at Bsides Springfield, MO Mr. Boettcher talks about Sigma Malware infection. http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/116970567/BSidesSpfd **new website upcoming** Registration is coming and will be updated on next show (hopefully) DBIR -https://www.verizonenterprise.com/resources/reports/rp_DBIR ...…

Bryan plays 'stump the experts' with Ms. Berlin and Mr. Boettcher this week... We discuss SIEM logging, and tuning... How do SIEM deal with disparate log file types? What logs should be the first to be gathered? Is a SIEM even required, or is just a central log repo enough? Which departments benefit the most from logging? (IT, IR, Compliance?) ...…

Megan Roddie discusses being a High functioning Autistic, and we discuss how company and management can take advantage of the unique abilities of those with high functioning autism. Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2018-011.mp3 Matt Miller's Assembly and Reverse Engineering Class: Still can sign up! The syllabus is here: ...…

Matt Miller’s #Assembly and #Reverse #Engineering class $150USD for each class, 250USD for both classes Syllabus : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1alsTUhGwAAnR6BA27gGo3OdjEHFnq2wtQsynPfeWzd0/edit?usp=sharing Please state which class you'd like to take when ordering in the "Notes" field in Paypal https://paypal.me/BDSPodcast/150usd To sign u ...…

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2018-009-internships-mentorships-retooling-finding-that-unicorn-pentester.mp3 Topics discussed: How Jay Beale (@jaybeale @inguardians) and Brad A. (@sno0ose) do mentorship and apprenticeship in their respective orgs. Best methods to retool yourself if you are trying to move to a new indust ...…

BDIR Episode - 001 Our guests will be: Martin Brough - Manager of the Security Solutions Engineering team in the #email #phishing industry Topic of the Day: CREDENTIAL STEALING EMAILS WHAT CAN YOU DO Join us for Episode-001, our guest will be: Martin Brough - Manager of the Security Solutions Engineering team in the email phishing industry Topi ...…

https://www.auditscripts.com/free-resources/critical-security-controls/ Thanks to Slacker Ben Chung, who heard about this from John Strand... BsidesIndy report - Amanda Bsides Austin - Brian Log_MD 2.0 - www.log-md.com https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/only-half-of-those-who-paid-a-ransomware-ransom-could-recover-their-data/ https: ...…

Topics: Secure Framework documents Modifying chromebooks so you can use Debian/Ubuntu Memcached is the new DDoS hotness Announcement of the next BrakeSec Training Class (see Show Notes below for more info) Link to secure framework document: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xLfY4uI88K2AiA1mosWJ7jFyP100Jv5d Tickets are already on sale for "Hack ...…

Topics on today's show: NPM (Node Package Manager) - bug was introduced changing permissions on /etc, /boot, and /usr, breaking many systems, requiring full re-installs. Why was it allowed to be passed, and worse, why did so many run that version on production systems? Code signing - a well known content management system does not sign it's cod ...…

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2018-005-Securing_CMS_and_mobile_devices-phishing_story.mp3 Topics: Discussion of Ms. Berlin's course CAPEC discussion RTF malware MS Office A Phishing story... Mobile Supply Chain Security CMS Supply Chain Security Ms. Berlin’s course - recap of 2nd session Brakeing Down IR -date? Any mal ...…

Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSjskf-3vrguoyIyg8yOK2KLqg7srxYlee4RD6jzgNc/edit?usp=sharing Topics Discussed: New tool : AutoSploit - Does it lower the bar? How should Blue teamers be using Shodan? Discuss WPAD attacks, what WPAD is, and why it's a thing blue teams should worry about. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ms. Amanda Berlin is running ...…

Here is the inaugural episode of the "Brakeing Down Incident Response" Please check it out! BDIR Episode - 000 Our guests will be: Dave Cowen - Forensic Lunch Podcast and G-C Partners Tyler Hudak - Trainer in Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering Topic of the Day: WHAT IS THIS NEW PODCAST ALL ABOUT, WHAT WILL IT COVER? "Incident Response, Ma ...…

Back in late 2017, we did a show about expensify and how the organization was using a service called 'Amazon Mechanical Turk' (MTurk) to process receipts and to help train their Machine Learning Algorithms. You can download that show and listen to it here: 2017-040 #infosec people on Twitter and elsewhere were worried about #privacy issues, as ...…

John Nye (@EndisNye_com) is the VP of Cybersecurity Strategy at healthcare consultancy #CynergisTek. He's in the process of writing a whitepaper about the issues that are still plaguing healthcare. While every industry in the world has to deal with #security issues, the stakes are highest, and most personal, in healthcare. Because healthcare da ...…

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2018-001-A_new_year-new_changes-same_old_malware.mp3 The first show of our 2018 season brings us something new (some awesome new additions to our repertoire), and something old (ransomware). Michael Gough is joining us to discuss a new a partnership with BrakeSec Podcast (you'll have to li ...…

As is tradition (or becoming around here) we like to get a bunch of podcasters together and just talk about our year. No prognostications, a bit of silliness, and we still manage to get in some great infosec content. Please enjoy! And please seek out these podcasts and have a listen! Slight warning: some rough language People and podcasts in at ...…

Ms. Berlin and Mr. Boettcher are on holiday this week, and I (Bryan) went to Hushcon (www.hushcon.com) last week (8-9 Dec 2017). Lots of excellent discussion and talks. While there, our friend Jay Beale (@jaybeale) came on to discuss Hushcon, as well as some recent news. Google released an 0day for Apple iOS, and we talk about how jailbreaking ...…

Maslow's Hierarchy of needs was developed with the idea that the most basic needs should be satisfied to allow for continued successful development of the person and the community inevitably created by people seeking the same goals. DFIR is also much the same way in that there are certain necessary basics needed to ensure that you can detect, r ...…

With Mr. Boettcher out this week due to family illness, Ms. Berlin and I discussed a little bit of what is going on in the world. Expensify unveiled a new 'feature' where random people would help train their AI to better analyze receipts. Problem is that the random people could see medical receipts, hotel bills, and other PII. We discuss how th ...…

This week is a bit of a short show, as Ms. Berlin and Mr. Boettcher are out this week for the holiday. I wanted to talk about something that I've started doing at work... Creating training... custom training that can help your org get around the old style training. Also, we got some community audio from one of our listeners! "JB" went to a SANS ...…