Last week, we talked with Ben Donnelly about ADHD (Active Defense Harbinger Distro). But Ben isn't a one trick pony, oh no... this young punk is trying to solve fundamental problems in the business industry, in particular securing passwords. That's why he's been working with Tim Tomes (@lanmaster53)invented 'Ball and Chain', which is a large (>2TB) file that can be used to help generate passwords and entropy.
We discuss
It's a bit meta, cause this will show up there in a few minutes, but Brakeing Down Security now has a Tumblr...
Don't know why it took so long... We'll be posting from other Tumblr blogs, and our episodes will post there... I hope you will spread the word...
http://brakeingdownsecurity.tumblr.com/
When Mr. Boettcher and I started the Brakeing Down Security Podcast, we really did it for 2 reasons:
1. We wanted to educate people and ourselves about information security topics, and do it in a way that was fun
2. Educate ourselves about some topics that we were not familar with, because infosec and compliance is such a vast range of topics and skills
Mr. Boettcher and I want to extend a warm and hearty THANK YOU SO MUCH for inviting us into your podcasting listening device. We realize there are a ton of infosec podcasts out there, and you allowing us to share space with them makes us so happy.
Look for more podcasts in December, and in the new year, look for more videos and excellent interviews.
As we've always said, we do this podcast for you, and we want to know what you want to hear or see. If you have a topic you'd love to have us talk about, or you'd like to come on our podcast and talk about something you're working on, please let us know. We want input, so please leave us some feedback on iTunes, or tweet our podcast to your friends
Happy Thanksgiving to our US fans, Happy Thursday for the rest of the world...
Bryan Brake
Creator, Co-Host of the Brakeing Down Security podcast
@bryanbrake
@boettcherpwned
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We snagged an interview with Benjamin Donnelly, a maintainer of the Active Defense Harbinger Distribution (ADHD). version 0.60
A thoroughly enjoyable conversation with a new up-and-coming security professional. He's the future, and he is already contributing a lot of great info to the infosec industry.
Part 1 is all about ADHD, next week, we discuss his talk about a project he's working on that will remove the threat of password breaches using 'Ball and Chain'. And it's all open source...
ADHD ISO: http://sourceforge.net/projects/adhd/
CryptoLocked: https://bitbucket.org/Zaeyx/cryptolocked
My man Mr. Boettcher posted up a video on how to install OWASP's WebGoat Vulnerable web application!
He walks you through WebGoat 5.4, and even gives you some tips on solving issues that he'd found. And to make it even easier, he's given you some instructions below.
Hope you enjoy, especially if you've had issues setting up WebGoat in the past.
Webgoat 5.4 instructions
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1. search google and download the war file
(From Bryan: Here's the link -- https://code.google.com/p/webgoat/downloads/list )
2. install tomcat
sudo apt-get install tomcat7
3. move the war file to tomcat webapp directory
sudo mv ~/Downloads/WebGoat-5.4.war /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/WebGoat.war
4. edit tomcat-users.xml by adding the content below
sudo vi /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/tomcat-users.xml
5. restart tomcat
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart
6. in your browser, type localhost:8080/WebGoat/attack
<role rolename="webgoat_basic"/>
<role rolename="webgoat_user"/>
<role rolename="webgoat_admin"/>
<user username="basic" password="basic" roles="webgoat_basic,webgoat_user"/>
<user username="guest" password="guest" roles="webgoat_user"/>
<user username="webgoat" password="webgoat" roles="webgoat_admin"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="webgoat_admin"/>
Active Defense... It conjures images of the lowly admin turning the tables on the evil black hat hackers, and giving them a dose of their own medicine by hacking their boxes and getting sweet, sweet revenge... But did you know that kind of 'revenge' is also rife with legal rammifications, even bordering on being illegal??
This week, Mr. Boettcher and I tackle this prickly subject, and discuss some software you can use to 'deter, prevent, and dissuade' potential bad guys...
ADHD Training (courtesy of Paul's Security Weekly Podcast): http://blip.tv/securityweekly/active-defense-harbinger-distribution-release-party-7096833
Artillery - https://www.binarydefense.com/project-artillery/
DenyHosts - http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
Intro "Private Eye", transition "Mining by Moonlight", and Outro "Honeybee" created by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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If you think Halloween was scary, Paul Coggin gives us another reason to curl up in the fetal position as he goes explains Lawful Intercept, and Route Maps. And what's worse, your 3rd party auditors are starting to get the tools that will make you address network protocol issues.
Lots of great material here below in our show notes, including some tools (free) that you can use to get yourself schooled on network protocols
BGPmon - http://www.bgpmon.net/Renesys (now Dyn Research) http://research.dyn.com/
BGP Play - http://bgplay.routeviews.org/
BGP Looking glass servers - http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses
yersinia - http://www.yersinia.net/
Fx Twitter handle - https://twitter.com/41414141
ernw - https://www.ernw.de/
Cisco Route Maps - http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/border-gateway-protocol-bgp/49111-route-map-bestp.html
Paul's Bsides Nashville talk - http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/bsidesnashville2014/300-bending-and-twisting-networks-paul-coggin
Huawei ENSP - http://enterprise.huawei.com/en/products/network-management/automation-tools/tools/hw-201999.htm
NRL Core - http://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/ncs/products/core
NRL Mgen - http://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/ncs/products/mgen
Intro "Private Eye", transition "Mining by Moonlight", and Outro "Honeybee" created by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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One of the talks my colleague got to see was Paul Coggin's talk about Internetworking routing and protocols. In this interview, we dicsuss some tools of the trade, how MPLS isn't secure, and why you should be doing end-to-end encryption without allowing your VPN or circuit provider to do it for you...
If you have any interest in network security, including the higher order network protocols like BGP, MPLS, ATM, etc... You'll want to check out his DerbyCon talk, and our interview...
Paul's Derbycon 2014 talk - http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon4/t319-bending-and-twisting-networks-paul-coggins
Hacking SNMP tips and tricks: http://securityreliks.securegossip.com/2011/04/hacking-snmp-in-a-few-simple-steps/
SNMPBlow: http://www.stoptheplague.com/?p=19
ERNW: https://www.ernw.de/research-community/index.html
Fx paper on Lawful Intercept: http://phenoelit.org/stuff/CSLI.pdf
Intro "Private Eye", transition "Mining by Moonlight", and Outro "Honeybee" created by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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