2015-043: WMI, WBEM, and enterprise asset management

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? It's use in the enterprise and by admins is rarely used, but it's use in moving laterally by bad actors is growing in it's use.  It's highly versatile, able to be scripted, and can even be used to cause triggers for when other programs run on a system. 

Mr. Boettcher and I sit down and discuss the functions of #WMI, it's history, what classes and objects are, and ways you can leverage WMI to make your admins job much easier.

#assetmanagement #remotemanagement #wbem #wmi #windows

DerbyCon WMI talk: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/derbycon5/break-me12-whymi-so-sexy-wmi-attacks-real-time-defense-and-advanced-forensic-analysis-matt-graeber-willi-ballenthin-claudiu-teodorescu

Wbemtest: http://blogs.technet.com/b/chad/archive/2012/03/08/tip-45-wbemtest-the-underappreciated-tool.aspx

WMI documentation: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384642(v=vs.85).aspx

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2015-042: Log_MD, more malware archaeology, and sifting through the junk

Just before #Derbycon, we invited Michael Gough (@hackerhurricane) to join us on the #podcast. 

For the last 3-4 months, my co-host Brian and he were engaged in the creation of a software tool that would make #log #analysis of #windows systems quicker, and together they have achieved that with "Log-MD", short for Log Malicious Discovery.

For hosts infected with #Malware and #bots, they always leave a fingerprint of what they are doing behind. This software takes your system, configures it to get the maximum #logging output possible, then puts everything in a nice readable format, enabling you to filter out known good items, leaving you with bad items, or suspicious activity.  This allows you to analyze #logfiles and find malware in less time than before. This will make #forensics of infected systems faster and more economical.

We do some discussion of #Log-MD, and then we have MIchael demo LOG-MD for us.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/0_J90sOVY8c

log-MD site: http://log-md.com/

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Derbycon Audio - post-Derby interviews!

In our last bit of Derbycon audio, I discussed DerbyCon experiences with Mr. Boettcher, Magen Wu (@tottenkoph), Haydn Johnson (@haydnjohnson), and Ganesh Ramakrishnan (@hyperrphysics).  We find out what they liked, what they didn't like, and you get a lot of great information about packing for a con, things you can do to improve your convention going experience.

Hopefully, you'll hear the amount of fun we had, and find the time to go to a convention. There are literally hundreds, many only few hours by plane away. Some can be found in your own town or within driving distance.

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Derbycon - A podcast with Podcasters! *explicit*

Mr. Boettcher and I attended Derbycon, and while he was out attending talks, I got invited to do a podcast with some of the other podcasts who were there.  Special thanks to Edgar Rojas, Amanda Berlin, Jerry Bell, Andrew Kalat, Paul Coggin, Tim DeBlock, and everyone else at our recording.  We have a bit more audio that we will post this month, including a discussion of a tool Mr. Boettcher and Michael Gough collaborated on to make windows malware analysis easier to do.

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2015-040; Defending against HTML 5 vulnerabilities

Last week, we discussed with Shreeraj Shah about HTML5, how it came into being and the fact that instead of solving OWASP issues, it introduces new and wonderful vulnerabilities, like exploiting locally stored web site info using XSS techniques, and doing SQLI on the new browser WebSQL.

So this week, it's all about defensive techniques that you can use to educate your developers against making mistakes that could get your company's web application on the front page of the news paper.

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2015-039: Hazards of HTML5

Shreeraj Shah (@shreeraj on Twitter) came on this week to give us a run-down of some of the issues with HTML5? How can a new standard actually be worse than something like Flash? And why would a standard not address existing OWASP issues, and even create new issues, like the ability of a browser to have a database inside of it managing everything?

This week we discuss HTML5 history, some of the pitfalls, and discuss some of the new technologies found in HTML5 that will create more headaches for agents of infosec.

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2015-038-Influence Vs. Mandate and Guardrails vs. Speedbumps

When we wanted to have Martin Fisher on, it was to discuss 'Security Mandate vs. Security Influence'. We wanted to discuss why companies treat compliance as more important, and if it's only because business requires it to be done. And if infosec is a red headed stepchild because they often don't have the guidance of a compliance framework.

 

But it ended up going in another direction, with Martin discussing infosec leadership, and how we as agents of infosec should be 'guardrails' instead of 'speed bumps' to business processes and people. It was a great discussion from a veteran healthcare CISO, especially if you're thinking of pursuing a CISO or CSO management track.

 

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