7MS #9: Information Security for the Whole Family (audio)

Hey friends! Today we're dusting off an old mini-series about password cracking in the cloud (check out part 1 and part 2) and sharing some awesome info on building a monster of a cracking rig in AWS! One reason we haven't talked about password cracking in the cloud in a while is because back in winter of 2019 I built baby's first password cracking. Unfortunately, this week, Hashy (the name I gave to the rig) is overheating, and GPUs are impossible to find, so what's a pentester to do? Well, in today's episode I talk about this article from Sevnx which walks you through building a virtual password-cracking beast in the cloud. The article (complemented by a sweet video) will get you running in short order. WARNING: running this instance is super expensive (the author warns the instance would cost ~$9k/month if you left it run continuously). The steps are pretty straightforward, but between reboots I found that hashcat acted all wonky. Luckily, the article addresses that with this great tip: Pro tip: Save the Cuda download somewhere. If you ever turn your cracker off and get errors running hashcat when you turn it back on, re-run the install line. We think AWS sometimes refreshes the drivers or something and hashcat doesn't like it very much. If you need help installing one of my fave tools, hatecrack check out my password cracking in the cloud gist. Also, our buddy Joe pointed me towards a utility called duplicut to help de-dupe large password-cracking wordlists. Once the AWS instance is setup, what kind of stats do we get out of this demon? Here's the result of hashcat -b: Hashmode: 0 - MD5 Speed.#1.........: 55936.1 MH/s (47.79ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:8 Speed.#2.........: 55771.4 MH/s (47.94ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:8 Speed.#3.........: 55827.0 MH/s (47.88ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:8 Speed.#4.........: 55957.7 MH/s (47.78ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:8 Speed.#*.........: 223.5 GH/s Hashmode: 100 - SHA1 Speed.#1.........: 17830.1 MH/s (75.08ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 17774.0 MH/s (75.21ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 17780.9 MH/s (75.26ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 17795.6 MH/s (75.22ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 71180.6 MH/s Hashmode: 1400 - SHA2-256 Speed.#1.........: 7709.9 MH/s (86.84ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 7718.3 MH/s (86.75ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 7710.4 MH/s (86.75ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 7694.4 MH/s (87.02ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 30833.0 MH/s Hashmode: 1700 - SHA2-512 Speed.#1.........: 2399.8 MH/s (69.70ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 2401.1 MH/s (69.68ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 2397.3 MH/s (69.78ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 2400.3 MH/s (69.70ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 9598.5 MH/s Hashmode: 22000 - WPA-PBKDF2-PMKID+EAPOL (Iterations: 4095) Speed.#1.........: 866.5 kH/s (94.23ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 866.7 kH/s (94.21ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 865.6 kH/s (94.30ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 866.7 kH/s (94.20ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 3465.5 kH/s Hashmode: 1000 - NTLM Speed.#1.........: 102.2 GH/s (26.05ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:8 Speed.#2.........: 102.3 GH/s (26.05ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:8 Speed.#3.........: 102.2 GH/s (26.07ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:8 Speed.#4.........: 102.3 GH/s (26.04ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:8 Speed.#*.........: 409.0 GH/s Hashmode: 3000 - LM Speed.#1.........: 41104.7 MH/s (64.74ms) @ Accel:512 Loops:1024 Thr:64 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 40216.5 MH/s (66.11ms) @ Accel:512 Loops:1024 Thr:64 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 40507.3 MH/s (65.89ms) @ Accel:512 Loops:1024 Thr:64 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 39181.4 MH/s (68.13ms) @ Accel:512 Loops:1024 Thr:64 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 161.0 GH/s Hashmode: 5500 - NetNTLMv1 / NetNTLMv1+ESS Speed.#1.........: 55861.0 MH/s (47.87ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:2 Speed.#2.........: 55864.3 MH/s (47.87ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:2 Speed.#3.........: 55519.4 MH/s (47.98ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:2 Speed.#4.........: 55826.6 MH/s (47.89ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:2 Speed.#*.........: 223.1 GH/s Hashmode: 5600 - NetNTLMv2 Speed.#1.........: 3968.0 MH/s (84.37ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 3968.1 MH/s (84.38ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 3965.6 MH/s (84.38ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 3967.8 MH/s (84.37ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 15869.5 MH/s Hashmode: 1500 - descrypt, DES (Unix), Traditional DES Speed.#1.........: 1752.8 MH/s (95.32ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:64 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 1729.3 MH/s (96.65ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:64 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 1749.5 MH/s (95.53ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:64 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 1740.6 MH/s (96.01ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:64 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 6972.3 MH/s Hashmode: 500 - md5crypt, MD5 (Unix), Cisco-IOS $1$ (MD5) (Iterations: 1000) Speed.#1.........: 24882.8 kH/s (50.59ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:1000 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 24828.0 kH/s (50.60ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:1000 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 24865.7 kH/s (50.60ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:1000 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 24849.6 kH/s (50.59ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:1000 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 99426.0 kH/s Hashmode: 3200 - bcrypt $2*$, Blowfish (Unix) (Iterations: 32) Speed.#1.........: 69071 H/s (54.00ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:16 Thr:24 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 68818 H/s (54.25ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:16 Thr:24 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 68926 H/s (54.13ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:16 Thr:24 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 69013 H/s (54.04ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:16 Thr:24 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 275.8 kH/s Hashmode: 1800 - sha512crypt $6$, SHA512 (Unix) (Iterations: 5000) Speed.#1.........: 386.4 kH/s (84.04ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 377.9 kH/s (85.68ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 372.3 kH/s (86.76ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 382.7 kH/s (84.51ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 1519.3 kH/s Hashmode: 7500 - Kerberos 5, etype 23, AS-REQ Pre-Auth Speed.#1.........: 1177.0 MH/s (71.08ms) @ Accel:256 Loops:128 Thr:32 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 1175.4 MH/s (71.17ms) @ Accel:256 Loops:128 Thr:32 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 1171.5 MH/s (71.28ms) @ Accel:256 Loops:128 Thr:32 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 1177.4 MH/s (71.05ms) @ Accel:256 Loops:128 Thr:32 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 4701.3 MH/s Hashmode: 13100 - Kerberos 5, etype 23, TGS-REP Speed.#1.........: 1068.5 MH/s (78.29ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:32 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 1069.4 MH/s (78.25ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:32 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 1068.4 MH/s (78.32ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:32 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 1068.6 MH/s (78.29ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:32 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 4275.0 MH/s Hashmode: 15300 - DPAPI masterkey file v1 (Iterations: 23999) Speed.#1.........: 148.5 kH/s (93.95ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:512 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 148.4 kH/s (93.99ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:512 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 148.5 kH/s (93.96ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:512 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 148.4 kH/s (93.95ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:512 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 593.8 kH/s Hashmode: 15900 - DPAPI masterkey file v2 (Iterations: 12899) Speed.#1.........: 80610 H/s (80.47ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 80606 H/s (80.47ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 80596 H/s (80.48ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 80378 H/s (80.46ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:256 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 322.2 kH/s Hashmode: 7100 - macOS v10.8+ (PBKDF2-SHA512) (Iterations: 1023) Speed.#1.........: 1002.4 kH/s (78.60ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:31 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 1002.4 kH/s (78.60ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:31 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 1002.1 kH/s (78.62ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:31 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 1002.7 kH/s (78.58ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:31 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 4009.6 kH/s Hashmode: 11600 - 7-Zip (Iterations: 16384) Speed.#1.........: 897.6 kH/s (82.05ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:4096 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 896.4 kH/s (82.09ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:4096 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 893.3 kH/s (83.60ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:4096 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 912.4 kH/s (81.95ms) @ Accel:4 Loops:4096 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 3599.7 kH/s Hashmode: 12500 - RAR3-hp (Iterations: 262144) Speed.#1.........: 116.6 kH/s (60.91ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:16384 Thr:128 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 111.4 kH/s (63.61ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:16384 Thr:128 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 111.6 kH/s (63.63ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:16384 Thr:128 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 115.0 kH/s (61.81ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:16384 Thr:128 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 454.7 kH/s Hashmode: 13000 - RAR5 (Iterations: 32799) Speed.#1.........: 93248 H/s (54.69ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 93202 H/s (54.72ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 93009 H/s (54.70ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 93241 H/s (54.69ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 372.7 kH/s Hashmode: 6211 - TrueCrypt RIPEMD160 + XTS 512 bit (Iterations: 1999) Speed.#1.........: 672.2 kH/s (55.34ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:64 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 672.1 kH/s (55.34ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:64 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 671.4 kH/s (55.34ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:64 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 672.2 kH/s (55.34ms) @ Accel:16 Loops:64 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 2687.9 kH/s Hashmode: 13400 - KeePass 1 (AES/Twofish) and KeePass 2 (AES) (Iterations: 24569) Speed.#1.........: 111.2 kH/s (122.52ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 111.1 kH/s (122.55ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 111.2 kH/s (122.58ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 111.2 kH/s (122.52ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:128 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 444.7 kH/s Hashmode: 6800 - LastPass + LastPass sniffed (Iterations: 499) Speed.#1.........: 5944.3 kH/s (35.66ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:249 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 5942.0 kH/s (35.66ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:249 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 5939.0 kH/s (35.67ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:249 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 5943.8 kH/s (35.66ms) @ Accel:8 Loops:249 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 23769.0 kH/s Hashmode: 11300 - Bitcoin/Litecoin wallet.dat (Iterations: 200459) Speed.#1.........: 11370 H/s (73.48ms) @ Accel:2 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#2.........: 11355 H/s (73.50ms) @ Accel:2 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........: 11369 H/s (73.49ms) @ Accel:2 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#4.........: 11370 H/s (73.49ms) @ Accel:2 Loops:1024 Thr:1024 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........: 45464 H/s For a real world example, I had ~1,500 NTLM hashes to crack that I ran through some of the hatecrack methodology, and here's how the instance performed: 100 LM hashes discovered, all cracked in 7 minutes (heh, 7 minutes :-) Ran hatecrack's quick crackw ith no rules: done in 7 minutes, cracked 108 accounts Quick crack against one rule to rule them all: ran in 25 minutes, got got 271 new passwords Ran extensive hatecrack methodology, it ran for a little over 2 hours and got 88 new passwords. All said and done, about 1/3 of the passwords cracked in about 3 hours. Not bad! Don't forget, the second you're done with your cracking efforts, SHUT THE BOX DOWN! Otherwise you're in for a sour surprise come AWS billing day :-( On a few personal notes: Last Comic Standing was the show I couldn't think of during the episode :-) After a toxic non-toxic foam pit incident a few years ago, my family and I had another injury this weekend with a rented waterslide - the fun ended in a concussion!

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Hey everybody! Today Joe and I sat down with Nikhil Mittal of Pentester Academy and Altered Security to talk about a whole slew of fun security topics: How Nikhil first got involved in Pentester Academy Nikhil's hacker origin story How does Nikhil feel about his tools being used by baddies? What security tools/defenses would be good for SMBs to focus on? Active Directory security - is all hope lost? Will AI, ML, Terminator robots, etc. replace all of us who do pentesting for a living?

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Today our good pal Christopher Fielder from Arctic Wolf is back for an interview three-peat! He joins Joe "The Machine" Skeen (a.k.a. Gh0sthax) and I to talk about all things ransomware, including: How the Colonial Pipeline incident may have started from a weak VPN cred with no MFA. Silver lining (?) - they got some of the $ back. Was the federal government's response good enough? What should the government be doing to better handle and manage ransomware? Common ways ransomware gets in our environments, and some ways to NOT get ransomware'd: Use 2FA (make sure that all accounts are using it!) Consider having (if possible) your AD user scheme be something like chi-user4920394 instead of Joe.President Have users that haven't logged in for X days get automatically locked out Train your users - consider Arctic Wolf's managed security awareness offering Detect early signs of compromise like Kerberoasting Lock down your DNS egress to only specific servers so that it doesn't run "wide open" Leverage good threat intel

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Hey everybody, happy June! Our pal Joe is back to cover some great security stories with us, including: Peloton's leaky API Some Colonial Pipeline discussion (story 1, story 2) Amazon Sidewalk doesn't really share your Internet connection with neighbors/strangers. The Hacker News article doesn't do an awesome job of clearing that up either.

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Today we're doing something new - a first impressions episode of Meraki networking gear. Note: this is not a sponsored episode, but rather a follow up to episode #460 where I talked about throwing all my UniFi gear into the ocean and replacing it with Meraki gear. At the end of that episode I asked if anybody was interested in a "first impressions" of the gear, and it turns out (at least 6) people are interested, so here we are! TLDL: Pros Super easy plug-and-play setup The mobile app can control just about everything - ports, SSIDs, Internet on/off timers and more! Verbose logging Top-notch support from experienced technicians Cons Cost! Big $$$ "Cloud only" - can't install this gear in a LAN-only configuration Client VPN is a bit clunky to setup

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Hey friends! Today we're talking with Philippe Humeau, CEO of CrowdSec, which is "an open-source massively multiplayer firewall able to analyze visitor behavior & provide an adapted response to all kinds of attacks. It also leverages the crowd power to generate a global IP reputation database to protect the user network." I came into this interview not knowing much at all about CrowdSec, so I peppered Philippe with questions such as: What is CrowdSec? What problem does it solve? Who are your competitors? You're open source...so how do you make $? What's your five-year plan? You're dealing with a lot of data and metrics...how are you handling data privacy laws and concerns such as GDPR? What if I fall in love with CrowdSec and want to contribute to making it better? It was a really fun, transparent and energetic interview - hope you enjoy it!

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Today we continue the series on eating your own security dog food! Specifically, we talk about: Keeping a log and procedure for sanitizing systems Keeping a log and procedure for provisioning systems A big "gotcha" to be aware of when using Windows system dropboxes - make sure your Windows user account doesn't expire, because Splashtop doesn't have any way to update it! To prevent this, set the account not to expire: wmic useraccount where "Name='LocalAdminAccount'" set PasswordExpires=false If you want more tips on building pentest dropboxes, check out this series Oh, and today's song that I sang obnoxiously is If I Were a Dog.

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