7MS #358: 4 Ways to Write a Better Pentest Report

7MS #358: 4 Ways to Write a Better Pentest Report

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This week we're talking about everybody's favorite topic: REPORT WRITING! Yay! The peasants rejoice! In the last few months I've seen a lot of reports from other companies, and here are a few key problems I see with them:

  1. Too long - overall these things are waaAAaAaaAayyyYYYYYYyyy too long. I see reports where the analyst has copied and pasted an entire Nessus report into the main report. Yikes. That makes these things weigh in at hundreds(!) of pages.
  2. Too techie - these reports look like their written from one techie to another. Nothing wrong with that, really, however in many cases the key person that needs to "get it" is a manager or C-level position who needs to understand the risks in plain English.
  3. No narrative - the reports are just a long laundry list of vulnerabilities without any context of how the pentest was conducted or which vulns should be fixed first.
  4. Weak remediation - most of the findings are accompanied by whatever remediation instructions are provided by the vuln-scanner or other tool. We can do better than this!

How? Listen to today's episode :-).

Oh, and don't forget to come to the next 7MS User Group meeting on Monday, April 22! Details here!

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7MS #701: What I'm Working on This Week – Part 5

7MS #701: What I'm Working on This Week – Part 5

Hello friends!  This week I'm talking about what I'm working on this week, including: Preparing a talk called Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest for the Minnesota GOVIT Symposium. Playing with Lithnet AD password protection (I will show this live on next week's Tuesday TOOLSday). The Light Pentest logo contest has a winner!

14 Nov 18min

7MS #700: Pretender

7MS #700: Pretender

Today is episode 700 of the 7MinSec podcast! Oh my gosh. My mom didn't think we could do it, but we did. Instead of a big blowout with huge news, giveaways and special guests, today is a pretty standard issue episode with a (nearly) 7-minute run time! The topic of today's episode is Pretender (which you can download here and read a lot more about here).  The tool authors explain the motivation behind the tool: "We designed pretender with the single purpose to obtain machine-in-the-middle positions combining the techniques of mitm6 and only the name resolution spoofing portion of Responder." On a recent pentest, I used Pretender's "dry run" mode to find a hostname (that didn't exist) that a ton of machines were querying for, and poisoned requests just for that host.  This type of targeted poisoning snagged me some helpful hashes that I was able to crack/relay, all while minimizing the risk of broader network disruption!

7 Nov 8min

7MS #699: Pre-Travel Security Tips

7MS #699: Pre-Travel Security Tips

Today we discuss some pre-travel tips you can use before hopping on a plane to start a work/personal adventure. Tips include: Updating the family DR/BCP plan Lightening your purse/wallet Validating/testing backups and restores Ensuring your auto coverage is up to snuff

31 Okt 30min

7MS #698: Baby's First ProjectDiscovery

7MS #698: Baby's First ProjectDiscovery

Today I give a quick review of the cloud version of ProjectDiscovery (not a sponsor!).

24 Okt 24min

7MS #697: Pwning Ninja Hacker Academy – Part 4

7MS #697: Pwning Ninja Hacker Academy – Part 4

Today your pal and mine Joe "The Machine" Skeen pwn one of the two Ninja Hacker Academy domains! This pwnage included: Swiping service tickets in the name of high-priv users Dumping secrets from wmorkstations Disabling AV Extracting hashes of gMSA accounts We didn't get the second domain pwned, and so I was originally thinking about doing a part 5 in November, but changed my mind. Going forward, I'm thinking about doing longer, all-in-one hacking livestreams where we cover things like NHA from start to finish. My first thought would be to do one long livestream where we complete NHA start to finish. Would you be interested? Let me know at 7MinSec.club, as I'm thinking this could be an interesting piece of bonus content.

18 Okt 13min

7MS #696: Baby's First Security Ticketing System

7MS #696: Baby's First Security Ticketing System

In today's episode: I got a new podcast doodad I really like JitBit as a security ticketing system (not a sponsor) The Threat Hunting with Velociraptor 2-day training was great. Highly recommend. I got inspired to take this class after watching the 1-hour primer here.

10 Okt 27min

7MS #695: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 78

7MS #695: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 78

Today's tale of pentest pwnage involves: Using mssqlkaren to dump sensitive goodies out of SCCM Using a specific fork of bloodhound to find machines I could force password resets on (warning: don't do this in prod…read this!) Don't forget to check out our weekly Tuesday TOOLSday – live every Tuesday at 10 a.m. over at 7MinSec.club!

3 Okt 15min

7MS #694: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 77

7MS #694: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 77

Hey friends, today I talk about how fun it was two combine two cool pentest tactics, put them in a blender, and move from local admin to mid-tier system admin access (with full control over hundreds of systems)! The Tuesday TOOLSday video we did over at 7minsec.club will help bring this to life as well.

26 Sep 33min

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