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2017-032-incident response tabletops, equifax breach Sep 12, 2017

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Everyone should be doing incident response tabletops, even if it's not a dedicated task in your organization. It allows you to find out what you might be lacking in terms of processes, manpower, requirements, etc.

This week, we discuss what you need to do to get ready for one, and how those should go in terms of helping your organization understand how to handle the aftermath.

And in case you've been under a rock, #equifax was breached. 143 million credit records are in the ether. We discuss the facts as of 9 September 2017, and what this means to the average user.

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---SHOW NOTES---

Incident response

Must go beyond 'threats'.

What is in your environment

Struts aren't a threat, or are they?

Equifax didn't think so at the time…

Insider threat

External entities

Libraries

plugins/themes used (Wordpress)

Risk analysis

Qualitative

Quantitative

What makes a good incident response exercise (

Following the creation and implementation of security controls around use cases, can be the testing of tabletop exercises and drills as a proof of concept. A tabletop exercise is a meeting of key stakeholders and staff that walk step by step through the mitigation of some type of disaster, malfunction, attack, or other emergency in a low stress situation. A drill is when staff carries out as many of the processes, procedures, and mitigations that would be performed during one of the emergencies as possible.While drills are limited in scope, they can be very useful to test specific controls for gaps and possible improvements. A disaster recovery plan can be carried out to some length, backups can be tested with the restoration of files, and services can be failed over to secondary cluster members.Tabletop exercises are composed of several key groups or members.

During a tabletop exercise there should be a moderator or facilitator that will deliver the scenario to be played out. This moderator can answer "what if " questions about the imaginary emergency as well as lead discussion, pull in additional resources, and control the pace of the exercise. Inform the participants that it is perfectly acceptable to not have answers to questions during this exercise. The entire purpose of tabletops is to find the weaknesses in current processes to mitigate them prior to an actual incident.• A member of the exercise should also evaluate the overall performance of the exercise as well as create an after-action report. This evaluator should take meticulous notes as well as follow along any runbook to ensure accuracy. While the evaluator will be the main notetaker, other groups and individuals may have specific knowledge and understanding of situations. In this case having each member provide the evaluator with their own notes at the conclusion of the tabletop is a good step.• Participants make up the majority of this exercise. Included should be groups such as Finance, HR, Legal, Security (both physical and information), Management, Marketing, and any other key group that may be required. Participants should be willing to engage in the conversation, challenge themselves and others politely, and work within the parameters of the exercise.

What to include in the tabletop:• A handout to participants with the scenario and room for notes.• Current runbook of how security situations are handled.• Any policy and procedure manuals.• List of tools and external services.

Post-exercise actions and questions:• What went well?• What could have gone better?• Are any services or processes missing that would have improved resolution time or accuracy?• Are any steps unneeded or irrelevant?• Identify and document issues for corrective action.• Change the plan appropriately for next time.

Tabletop TemplateThe Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has a collection of different scenarios, presentations, and tabletops that can be used as templates.

Derbycon channel on Slack

Intro to RE class

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-struts-statement-on-equifax

https://hackernoon.com/a-series-of-unfortunate-events-or-how-equifax-fire-eye-threw-oil-on-the-fire-c19285f866ed

2017-031-Robert_Sell-Defcon_SE_CTF-OSINT_source Sep 04, 2017

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This week, we met up with Robert Sell to discuss competing in the DefCon Social Engineering CTF. You're gonna learn how he prepared for the competition, and learn about some of the tactics you could use to compete in future SE CTF events.

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2017-030-Vulnerability OSINT, derbycon CTF walkthrough, and bsides Wellington! Aug 29, 2017

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This week, we discuss the lack of information and where you might find more information about certain vulnerabilities. Seems like many companies fail to give out necessary and actionable information without paying an arm and a leg.

We also go over our DerbyCon CTF walkthrough, and discuss the steps to solve it.

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Ms. Berlin is going to be at Bsides Wellington! Get your Tickets NOW!

https://twitter.com/bsideswlg

https://www.bsides.nz/

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--show notes--

NCC group talks in Seattle

NIST guidelines - no security questions, no SMS based 2fa

Vuln OSINT

Sites have information like Spokeo…

Breadcrumbs

Take Java for example (CVE-2017-10102): info is sparse

Other sites have more

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=54521 - worse than Oracle's site (impressive crappery)

Some are better: RHEL is fairly decent

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2424

Ubuntu has some different tidbits

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-10102.html

Arch has info

https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-10102

Point is, just because you use a specific OS, don't limit yourself… other OSes may contain more technical info. Some maintainers like to dig, like you.

https://vuldb.com/ - gives value of finding such a PoC for a vuln (5-25K USD for 2017-10102)

Derbycon CTF walkthrough

Looking for an instructor for an 'intro to RE' course.

Dr. Pulaski = Diana Maldaur

Dr. Crusher = Gates McFadden

2017-029-CIS benchmarks, Windows Update reverts changes used to detect malware Aug 20, 2017

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This week was one heck of a show. If you are a blueteamer and make use of the "Windows Logging Cheat Sheet", you are no doubt aware of how important it is to log certain events, and to set hostile conditions to make malware/Trojans/virus have a harder time avoiding detection.

What if I told you the same updates we suggested last week to NEVER delay actually undoes all your hardening on your system and leaves your logfiles set to defaults, all file associations for suspect files like pif, bat, scr, bin, are set back to defaults, allow your users to be victims again, even after you've assured them they are safe to update?

After a sequence of tweets from Michael Gough about just this exact thing, we laid out all the information, how and what get reverted that will open you back up to possible infections, as well as how some hardening standards actually make it harder to be secure.

Finally, we discuss the CIS benchmarks, and how many of the settings in them are largely outdated and why they need to be updated.

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--SHOW NOTES--

Gough says 'something is bad about CIS'

CIS benchmarks need revamping -- BrBr

/var, /var/log in separate partitions?

Password to access grub?

Disable root login to serial pty?

Many cloud instances and VMs don't have serial ports (not in a traditional sense)

What's the use case for using them? What problem will they solve?

Misconfiguration?

Proper logging?

NTP sources?

So many, dilution possible

SCAP

OVAL

STIG (complex as well)

CIS

Infosec: how do we get IT past the "that's good enough", as many customers and compliance frameworks want to see 'hardening' done.

What is a good baseline?

Write your own?

How do we tell them that it's not going to stop 'bad guys' ( or anyone really)? It's not 'security', and it's technically not even 'best practices' anymore (not all of it, anyway)

On windows, they are needlessly complicated and cause more problems

Roles have to be created "backup admin"

Can cause unintended issues

https://twitter.com/HackerHurricane/status/898629567056797696

https://twitter.com/HackerHurricane/status/892838553528479745

Category Sub Category 7/2008 8.1 2012 Win-7 Win-8.1 WLCS ThisPC Notes

Detailed Tracking Process Termination NA NA NA NA NA S/F S

Object Access File Share NA NA NA NA NA S/F S/F

Object Access File System NA NA NA F NA S S/F

Object Access Filtering Platform Connection NA NA NA NA NA S S

Object Access Filtering Platform Packet Drop NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

Log Sizes:

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Security - 1 GB

Application – 256MB

System – 256MB

PowerShell/Operational – 512MB – 1 GB v5

Windows PowerShell – 256MB

TaskScheduler – 256MB

Log Process Command Line (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) Yes Yes

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PowerShell Logging v5 (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) Yes Yes

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TaskScheduler Log (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (1) Yes

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(5) - CIS Benchmarks, USGCB, and AU ACSC do not cover this critical auditing item

2017-028-disabling WU?, Comcast wireless hack, and was it irresponsible disclosure? Aug 12, 2017

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This week went in a different direction from what we normally do. We discussed some news, a twitter conversation about someone from the 'ahem' "media" that suggests that you disable Windows Update on your home devices. We discuss the pros and mostly cons of doing that, and alternatives to protect your home and work devices from that.

We talked about the Comcast Xfinity applicances and how they have a vulnerability that could make it appear that traffic created by people outside of your house could look like it was coming from your home network.

We discuss the public disclosure of Carbon Black's architecture and seeming sharing of customer events to 3rd parties... it's not all black and white, and we discuss those here.

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---SHOW NOTES---

Twitter discussion -

https://twitter.com/Computerworld/status/894611609355603968

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3214146/microsoft-windows/it-s-time-to-check-your-windows-machines-and-temporarily-turn-off-automatic-update.html

[sic] "tons of problems with Automatic Update patches so far this year"

[sic] "if you're savvy enough to be reading this, you should consider turning Auto Update off, too"

Advocating disabling auto-updates in an OS is reckless.

Home networks for majority of users is completely flat

One Vlan (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24)

'Savvy' = technical

Which many of our users are not

Probable scenario: Bad guy targets you or family through a phish. They gain access to family computers, and pivot through those to your office computer

Blue teamers: suggest backups and backup options to keep their data safe and allow them to feel safer with automatic updates enabled, and VLANs if possible

Typically enterprises will hold off a few days or a week to push out Windows patches; Auto-updates are controlled.

The twitter guy said that in more recent Windows versions, WU take precedence over WSUS… need to confirm that… -- brbr

Confirmed… you can override WU… https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wsus/2017/08/04/improving-dual-scan-on-1607/

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3213929/microsoft-windows/the-case-against-windows-automatic-update.html

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3214487/security/pentest-firm-calls-carbon-black-worlds-largest-pay-for-play-data-exfiltration-botnet.html#tk.twt_cso

--this-- not because of title, but because of people jumping to conclusions (example of irresponsible disclosure)

Agreed… that shiz is damaging -- brbr

NoStarch TCP guide - https://www.nostarch.com/tcpip.htm

IPV4 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4

[graphic of IPv4 header from wikipedia article]

IHL - size of the header (minimum of 5)

DSCP - has to do with traffic shaping and QoS

ECN - notifies the network of congestion and allows infrastructure to implement congestion controls to compensate

Must be supported by both ends, and completely optional to enforce

Total Length - total size of the packet

Identification - interesting field, you can use it to hide data (Covert_TCP), otherwise, it's used for 'used for uniquely identifying the group of fragments of a single IP datagram"

https://github.com/tcstool/Fireaway

http://www.securityweek.com/coolest-talk-defcon-25-no-one-writing-about

2017-026-Machine_Learning-Market Hype, or infosec's blue team's newest weapon? Aug 03, 2017

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Ally Miller (@selenakyle) joined us this week to discuss Machine Learning and #Artificial #Intelligence. It seems like every new security product employs one or both of these terms. She did the keynote at Bsides Las Vegas on topics of #Machine #Learning and #Behavioral #Economics.

We asked Ms. Miller to join us here to discuss what ML and AI are, how algorithms work to analyze the data to come to the right conclusion. What is required to get a useful algorithm, and how much or little human interaction is required?

We also discuss a bit of history with her, how IDS/IPS were just dumber versions of machine learning, with 'tweaks' being new Yara or snort rules to tell the machine what to allow/disallow.

Finally, we discussed how people who are doing our 2017 DerbyCon CTF, instructions on how to win are in the show, so please take a listen.

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what is the required amount of data required to properly train the algorithms

how do you ensure that the training data is clean (or perhaps how do you determine what causes a false positive or negative)

Xoke Soru: "why are you trying to make skynet and kill us all? Do you hate humanity?"

Who will ML replace? Who in security?

Ask why people get confused between AI and Machine learning, and where the fine line is between the two or is one actually a subset of the other.

Basically.. "in what way/how do you see ML being used in an offensive capacity in the future (or now)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Machine_learning

https://www.slideshare.net/allyslideshare/something-wicked-78511887

https://www.slideshare.net/allyslideshare/201209-a-million-mousetraps-using-big-data-and-little-loops-to-build-better-defenses

https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/detail/61751

O'Reilly Conference 31 October

Mick douglas class

Derbycon CTF

Book club

Patreon

slack

2017-025-How will GDPR affect your Biz with Wendyck, and DerbyCon CTF info Jul 22, 2017

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GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is weighing on the minds and pocketbooks of a lot of European companies, but is the US as worried? If you read many of the news articles out there, it ranges from 'meh' to 'OMG, the sky, it is falling". GDPR will cause a lot of new issues in the way business is being done, not just in the realm of security, but in the way data is managed, maintained, catalogued, and shared.

This week we invited Ms. Wendy Everette Knox (@wendyck) to come in and discuss some of the issues that might hit companies. We also discuss how GDPR and the exit (or not) of the UK from the #European #Union will affect data holders and citizens of the UK.

If your company is preparing for the #GDPR mandate, check out the show notes for a lot of good info.

ALSO, If you are looking for a ticket to #derbycon 2017, you need to listen to this show, because it has all the info you need to get started. The info is also in the show notes, including the form you need to post your flag information.

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---Show Notes:----

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The primary objectives of the GDPR are to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.[1]

Would it be better if companies stored less data, or de-anon it to the point where a breach

Massive fines for breaches. Usually some percentage of profits…

(up to 4% of annual global turnover or €20 Million (whichever is greater))

"Under the GDPR, the Data Controller will be under a legal obligation to notify the Supervisory Authority without undue delay. The reporting of a data breach is not subject to any de minimis standard and must be reported to the Supervisory Authority within 72 hours of the data breach (Article 33)."

Is 72 hours for notification realistic? For massive breaches, 72 hours is just enough time to contain

Right to be forgotten (not realistic):

"A right to be forgotten was replaced by a more limited right to erasure in the version of the GDPR adopted by the European Parliament in March 2014.[19][20] Article 17 provides that the data subject has the right to request erasure of personal data related to them on any one of a number of grounds including non-compliance with article 6.1 (lawfulness) that includes a case (f) where the legitimate interests of the controller is overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data "

GDPR full text:

http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/document.cfm?doc_id=45631

Good intro:

https://www.taylorwessing.com/globaldatahub/article-the-data-protection-principles-under-the-gdpr.html

Controversial topics:

http://www.eugdpr.org/controversial-topics.html

Key Changes:

http://www.eugdpr.org/key-changes.html

Difficulty of doing GDPR in the cloud

https://hackernoon.com/why-gdpr-compliance-is-difficult-in-the-cloud-9755867a3662

US businesses largely ignoring GDPR

http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/expert-comments/us-businesses-ignoring-gdpr/#infosec

Fears of breach cover-up (due to massive fines 'up to 4% of profits')

http://tech.newstatesman.com/news/gdpr-cover-ups-security

From the UK ICO, 12 steps to take now to prepare for GDPR https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1624219/preparing-for-the-gdpr-12-steps.pdf (has a nice infographic on p. 2)

https://www.auditscripts.com/

CTF for derby ticket

Level 1-

The internet is a big place :) I've hidden 3 flags out on it and it's your job to see how many you can find. I'll give you a few hints to start.

Company Name = Big Bob's Chemistry Lab
There's something illegal going on, find out what!!
Submit flags here https://goo.gl/forms/iUEVHNuSYr34OZA22

2017-024-infosec_mental_health_defcon_contest-with-rand0h-and-tottenkoph Jul 16, 2017

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The infosec industry and the infosec culture is so diverse, with many different points of view, many different thoughts and opinions, and many of us deal with our own internal demons, like addictions, mental afflictions like depression or bipolar disorders. And 'imposter syndrome' is another thing that seems to add to the mix, making some believe they have to be constantly innovating or people think negatively of them.

So this week, we invited Ms. Magen Wu (@tottenkoph), and Danny (@dakacki) and we discuss some coping mechanisms at things like conferences, and if you work at home, like a lot of consultants and researchers do...

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Jay Beale's Class "aikido on the command line: hardening and containment"

JULY 22-23 & JULY 24-25 AT BlackHat and Defcon

https://www.blackhat.com/us-17/training/aikido-on-the-command-line-linux-hardening-and-containment.html

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Brakesec also announces our "PowerShell for Blue Teamers and Incident Responders" with Mick Douglas (@bettersafetynet). A 6 week course starting with the basics of powershell, and goes into discussion of frameworks using Powershell too assist in assessing your network. It starts on 10 July and run each Monday evening until 14 August 2017. You'll receive a certificate suitable for CPE credit, as well as the videos of the class available to you on our YouTube channel.

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--Show Notes--

Chris Sanders: Cult of Passion

http://chrissanders.org/2017/06/the-cult-of-passion/

Exercise

Start playing ingress or Pokemon Go, just to get out and gamify activity

Reduce alcohol consumption

Defcon : Friends of Bill W.

Agent X : 3/5K events at Defcon

Critics comments

You won't please everyone, so don't try

Spend time away from infosec

Family, friends

Hobbies

If you are in a job with 'secrets', find someone to talk to

Another person with the same 'secrets' or similar job

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/

@DAkacki (what is your podcast @rallysec)

Da667's book

[I love murder]@tottenkoph

@jimmyvo

@andMYhacks (works with Jimmy)

@infosecmentors

2017-023-Jay_Beale_Securing Linux-LXC-Selinux-Apparmor-Jails_and_more Jul 10, 2017

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Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/brakeingsecurity/2017-023-Jay_Beale-selinux-apparmor-securing_lxc.mp3

Jay Beale works for a pentest firm called "Inguardians", and has always been a fierce friend of the show. He's running a class at both BlackHat and Defcon all about hardening various parts of the Linux OS. This week, we discuss some of the concepts he teaches in the class.

Why do we disable Selinux? Is it as difficult to enable as everyone believes? What benefit do we get from using it?

We also discuss other hardening applications, like ModSecurity for Apache, Suhosin for PHP, and Linux Containers (LXC). What is gained by using these, and how can we use these to our advantage?

Really great discussion with Jay, and please sign up for his class for a two day in-depth discussion of all the technologies discussed on the show.

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Jay Beale's Class "aikido on the command line: hardening and containment"

JULY 22-23 & JULY 24-25 AT BlackHat and Defcon

https://www.blackhat.com/us-17/training/aikido-on-the-command-line-linux-hardening-and-containment.html

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Show Notes:

AppArmor

SELinux

Privilege Escalation - InGuardians Murderboard

Port Knocking (Single Pack Authorization)

OSSEC

ModSecurity

Linux Containers

Jess frizelle -bane

Dan walsh - selinux

Selinux troubleshoot daemon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_call

"In computing, a system call is the programmatic way in which a computer program requests a service from the kernel of the operating system it is executed on. This may include hardware-related services (for example, accessing a hard disk drive), creation and execution of new processes, and communication with integral kernel services such as process scheduling. System calls provide an essential interface between a process and the operating system."

OpenBSD pledge(2): https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/

Suhosin

https://www.blackhat.com/us-17/training/aikido-on-the-command-line-linux-hardening-and-containment.html

@inguardians

@jaybeale

www.inguardians.com

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What are you doing at Black Hat and Def Con?

Training class at Black Hat - 2 days
Def Con Workshop - ModSecurity and AppArmor - 4 hours
Packet Hacking Village Workshop - Container security
Vapor Trail at Def Con Labs (Larry and Galen)
Dancing my butt off?

2017-022-Windows Hardening, immutable laws of security admins, and auditpol Jul 03, 2017

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This week, we discuss hardening of windows hosts, utilizing CIS benchmarks. We talk about the 'auditpol' command. And we dredge up from the ancient times (2000) the Microsoft article from Scott Culp "The 10 Immutable Laws of Security Administration". Are they still applicable to today's environment, 17 years later?

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