7 Minute Security

This is a four-part series about my transition to a new job! The topics are as follows: * Part 1: When it may be time to look for a new job (or not) * Part 2: How to stand out during phone screenings and interviews * Part 3: How to gracefully transition from old job to new job * Part 4: Here's what I'm doing in my new gig!

This is a four-part series about my transition to a new job! The topics are as follows: Part 1: When it may be time to look for a new job (or not) Part 2: How to stand out during phone screenings and interviews Part 3: How to gracefully transition from old job to new job Part 4: Here's what I'm doing in my new gig!

This is a four-part series about my transition to a new job! The topics are as follows: Part 1: When it may be time to look for a new job (or not) Part 2: How to stand out during phone screenings and interviews Part 3: How to gracefully transition from old job to new job Part 4: Here's what I'm doing in my new gig!

This is a four-part series about my transition to a new job! The topics are as follows: Part 1: When it may be time to look for a new job (or not) Part 2: How to stand out during phone screenings and interviews Part 3: How to gracefully transition from old job to new job Part 4: Here's what I'm doing in my new gig!

The title says it all. I had two days to pentest a network that probably would've taken two or more people two weeks or more. I laughed. I cried. I had fun.

This episode talks about some fun I had using sqlmap, and how using it in conjunction with Sqlninja makes me happy to be alive.

In this episode I talk about face-planting in my office at the first job I had out of college.

In this episode, I talk about a restaurant infosec assessment I did, and how the recommendations coming out of that assessment didn't fit the standard "mold." I also talk about how being transparent and helpful - and NOT billing clients for every tiny little thing - is king.

This episode covers a few HIPAA tidbits I picked up while preparing for - and executing - a HIPAA security assessment.

This episode isn't about infosec exactly, but it talks about how using public resources like LinkedIn, Twitter and blogs to boost your "brand" (though I hate that word) and help you get more connected to the infosec community, job leads and more!

Way back in episode #93, I talked about things you can do to secure your life (mortgage review, adequate insurance, estate planning, investments, etc.). This episode continues that train of thought and covers: getting the right amount of life insurance, getting the right home/auto coverage, as well as estate planning.

This episode is 90% a rant about how annoying carry-on luggage and air travel can be, and a 10% sprinkling of security sauce mixed in. Hence: sprinkles.

This episode talks about my experience in doing a "redo" security assessment, during which I struggled with the following questions: what's the best way to efficiently correct the erroneous information and make the customer happy without asking ALL the original questions over again? Especially when I have little to no time to prepare for the "redo" interview?

Preview76 wordsThis episode is about a documentary called An Apology to Elephants. It's all about the treatment (or mistreatment) of elephants, and the main message of the movie is, "Please don't go to the circus when it's in town, because you're supporting elephant abuse." Even if that message was a little heavy handed, I certainly will pass on tickets next time a circus act comes through town. You can subscribe to the 7 Minute Security podcast here.

Part 2 concludes my journey in moving 7ms.us from Tumblr to a Digital Ocean droplet running Ghost. Here are the key resources mentioned during the podcast: How to run multiple Ghost blogs on one DI VPS. The key takeaway here was that I had to upgrade to the $10 droplet (I did a "flexible" resize to add more proc/memory) and then the second instance of Ghost installed fine. Turning on CloudFlare SSL was easy. I chose flexible SSL since I wasn't using a "real" cert. I also wrote a rule to force HTTPs for all connections. And, just for grins, I turned on DNSSEC. Because...why not? :-) I picked a strong root password for my DI droplet, but I still don't like the idea of IPs banging on that connection all day and night. I followed this article on installing Fail2Ban to prevent my SSH login from being abused. There are a few IPs that I want to perma-ban, so I'm going to look throughthis article and this one which looks a tad easier. You can subscribe to the 7 Minute Security podcast here.

Announcing the 7MS PURGE! I've got a back log of episodes banked and I want to get caught up for the new year. So I'm going to release one (or maybe more) episodes per day between now and 2016. Plus (spoiler alerts!) in 2016 we're moving to a Monday/Wednesday/Friday release schedule. Yep, 7MS three times a week - thanks for the idea, mom! Subscribe to 7MS on iTunes here.

In this episode I talk about my adventures in moving my brianjohnson.tv Tumblr content over to a Digital Ocean hosted droplet running Ghost. I think you'll want to check this episode out, because in part 2 I talk about the challenges I faced in hosting multiple Ghost instances on one DI droplet. I will also be talking about how to enable CloudFlare SSL (for free!) as well as enabling Fail2Ban to keep annoying people/IPs from brute forcing your SSH root account!

This episode discusses an important and rhetorical (to me) infosec question: Should phishing campaigns be "fair?"

Today I talk about one of the most moving films I've ever seen - a documentary called Alive Inside.

In this episode I complain about getting stuck in NY for two days, and also how to efficiently scan for vulnerabilities when your time is crunched.

We're going off-topic today and talking about the new(ish) movie about Brian Wilson's life called Love and Mercy.

Part 3 on my series about PCI pentesting. Yeah. That.

Yep, this episode is EXACTLY what the title implies.

This episode is about one of my favorite enumeration tools called Sparta - it's built right into Kali 2. And maybe it was in Kali 1 and I totally missed it. But whatevs. I'm happy to have found it now!

The thrilling (?) conclusion of my experience hacking WPA Enterprise.

This episode is about my experience hacking WPA enterprise. Huge mega tiger uppercut thanks to this site for giving me the fixes I needed to get this working on Kali2! https://warroom.securestate.com/index.php/evil-twin-attack-using-hostapd-wpe/

Movie reviews of It Follows and Backcountry.

Here's part 2 (of probably several to come) about my experience with PWAPT (Practical Webapp Pentesting) training last week!

Hey I'm going to PWAPT this week (http://www.eventbrite.com/e/practical-web-application-penetration-testing-with-tim-tomes-lanmaster53-tickets-16718889649), so in this episode I talk about that...and how I'll probably be too info-overloaded to record anything on Thursday :-). Oh, and I had a fun Web app pentest this week that I wanted to share some fun bits on.

A listener wrote in asking some questions about "a day in the life of" a security analyst, so here's my best stab at it!

Today's totally random episode covers: 1. How bad does this podcast's logo suck? 2. Does this podcast need a theme song? 3. Some interesting training I'm taking next week. 4. The Walking Dead - who should die? 5. Metal Gear Solid and my personal godmode strategy.

Hey I just got a LANTurtle and....these are my first impressions!

This is an off-topic episode about the time I was in the holiday comedy super-smash laugh-fest, Jingle All the Way.

I'm a big fan of Recon-ng and you should be too! Check it out - and learn more about Tim Tomes, its creator - at www.lanmaster53.com. And here's the video I mentioned in the podcast - my first look at Recon-ng in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkmNTNl6urw

The new(ish) Chris Farley documentary is fantastic - see it!

Ever had an assessment that you thought would be the death of you? I had one recently, but after sticking it out, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Today's episode gives you some tips on how to deliver bad news in an assessment in a positive way. I think that last sentence was a grammatical nightmare.

So far I've focused on the technical aspects of PCI, but I'm trying to get familiar with the overall scoping questions that my tenacious QSA friends ask when they start a gap analysis. This episode shares some interesting tidbits I learned while doing some QSA "shadowing" on an assessment of a restaurant.

We're going off topic today and talking about video games! LIMBO for the Xbox!

Yep, we're talking about how to make ENEMIES during a security assessment today (and maybe turn them into friends).

When you start a security assessment with a company, not everybody's gonna be glad to see you. The IT dept and other employees may have tense shoulders, thinking that this is an Office Space situation where they're interviewing for their jobs. This episode talks about some ways you might be able to get your assessment off to a right start.

I've been looking for better ways to learn Burp Suite and I struck gold! Check out my recommendations in today's episode!

So yeah, this is kind of off-topic, but have you thought about security in the sense of "What kinds of security things should I be doing before I'm dead?" Today's episode explores that.

Sometimes I get in situations where clients want their WHOLE security program reviewed, but in reality, they are still in the baby steps phase. What's the right thing to do when, for lack of a better term, the client isn't ready to put on their security big boy points?

Today's episode is about Umbrella, a product from OpenDNS that provides a layer of protection against malware, wifi-jacking and other threats.

We're going offtopic today and talking about the Citizen Four documentary, which centers around the Edward Snowden story.

Today we're talking about a new (to me) Web site/app scanning tool called AppSpider by Rapid7. Again, this isn't a commercial or paid advertisement. I just like sharing things that I like and use.

This episode's about a cool security app called GlassWire, which is (kind of) a firewall on steroids. I love it! Oh, and this is not an endorsement or a commercial :-)

Today I talk about challenge I run into when I'm delivering to a mixed audience of C-level folks and IT people. How do you keep things high level enough so everybody "gets it" but also go level enough that the recommendations have some teeth?

This episode concludes the gripping, thrilling, exciting, awesome-ing, death-defying, unsettling, rattling series on OSWP (Offensive Security Wireless Professional). Specifically, I talk (as much as I can without getting into trouble) about the exam and give you some pointers to pass it!