The following is a re-post of the excellent PowerPoint presentation created by Cybrary SME @ethicalmjpen regarding Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing and how the two differ, and overlap. We wanted to share this on the blog because the content in explaining the two topics, is very concise
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Computer related crime is very prevalent in this day of global communication, people bringing their personal electronic items to work as well as many companies having people who do not work in house but instead opt to work remotely. For this reason, the field of digital investigation
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WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) has been a part of the Windows Operating system since Windows 95. With it, you can make queries about information on hosts, locally and even remotely. Why are we talking about it? Its use in the enterprise and by admins is rarely used,
Read more →#MITRE has a matrix that classifies the various ways that your network can be . It shows all the post-exploitation categories from ‘Persistence’ to ‘Privilege Escalation’. It’s a nice way to organize all the information. This week, Mr. Boettcher and I go over “#Persistence” and “#Command and #Control”
Read more →We’ve realized that it might have been confusing for some people on where to start a class since all of the “good stuff” was buried under hundreds of page scrolls. Well now we’ve re-arranged the main course pages. The information you wanted is now on top (go
Read more →http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2016-003-AntiVirus_what_is_it_good_for.mp3 #Anti-virus products… they have been around for as long as many of us have been alive. The first anti-virus program, “The Reaper” was designed to get rid of the first virus ‘The Creeper’ by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. This week, we discuss the efficacy of anti-virus.
Read more →BrakeSec Podcast welcomes Bill Gardner this week! #Author, #InfoSec Convention Speaker, and fellow podcaster… We break a bit from our usual rigid methods, and have a good ol’ jam session with Bill this week. We talk about #vulnerability #management, #google #dorking, #career management, the troubles of putting
Read more →This week’s super-sized episode is brought to us thanks to previous guest Cheryl Biswas. You might remember her from our “Shadow IT” (http:/brakeingsecurity.com/2015-048-the-rise-of-the-shadow-it) podcast a few months ago. She reached out to us to see if we were interested in doing a podcast on mainframe security with her and
Read more →Hector Monsegur has had a colorful history. A reformed black hat who went by the name ‘Sabu’ when he was involved in the hacker collectives “Lulzsec” and “Anonymous”, he turned state’s evidence for the FBI, working to stop further hacking attempts by the same people he was
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