Open Source Intelligence Through Messaging Apps
During red team engagements, we try to gather information about our targets as quietly as possible. One piece of information that can be difficult to find is employee cell phone numbers. While researching a different subject, I stumbled across a way to correlate cell...
Enterprise Security Names Red Siege as a Top 10 Vulnerability Management Company for 2019
To help business providers in selecting promising vulnerability management services, a distinguished panel of prominent marketing specialists and analysts, along with Enterprise Security Magazine editorial board has assessed and shortlisted the companies offering...
On Purple
The "Purple Team" term has been flying around for a while now and it is an important development in our growth as an industry. If you haven’t heard the term before, it is a sharing and collaboration between the Red Team (offense) and the Blue Team (defense) with the...
Logging Passwords on Linux
Hal Pomeranz tipped me off to a nasty little trick of using Linux's own auditing features and PAM to grab clear text passwords from users as they use sudo/su on the command line. Linux PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) are a flexible method of implementing...
Red Siege Welcomes Corey Overstreet
Overstreet is an experienced penetration tester and red team operator and has been engaged with Fortune 500 organizations across a variety of industries, including financial services, government services, and healthcare. He also has more than five years of systems...
Breaking into Infosec
tl/dr; There are a lot of ways to get into infosec. I’ll try to outline some of the things that have helped me along the way and provide some resources to help you. We recently had the pleasure of sponsoring BSides Kansas City. Side note: if you haven’t been, you...
Finding the silver lining in getting your teeth kicked in
Lots of pen test and red team blogs follow the same model: we came, we saw, we conquered, blue team tears flowed. This is not one of those blogs. TL/DR; Pen testing isn't about finding vulnerabilities. It's about finding opportunities for your client to improve, even...
SQLi Data Exfiltration via DNS
Did you know you can use DNS queries to exfiltrate data from a database via SQLi? No? Then continue reading! I'll walk through some techniques you can use to enumerate and exfiltrate data from a DB server via blind SQLi. On a recent web app test, I encountered a...
DerbyCon 8 – Web App 101: Getting the Lay of the Land
Mike Saunders will be presenting "Web App 101: Lay of the Land" at DerbyCon 8, Saturday, October 6 at 12:00 PM, in Track 2 (upstairs). Mike draws on his experience in app testing to help you build an effective process for testing web applications, including how to...
Maintaining Session States in .NET Apps With Burp
During a recent web app test, I encountered a situation when I would be randomly logged out of the application when running sqlmap. I wasn't manipulating any of the session cookies and the logouts happened at random times. I needed a way to detect when I got logged...
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