Hardly Adequate

This week we catch up with one of the Hunted TV series' cyber security stars Carter Smith. We talk through his background from making coffees to pentesting.

Specter Ops - https://specterops.io/

Dirk-jan Mollema - https://dirkjanm.io/

Hunted TV Series - https://10play.com.au/hunted/episodes/season-1/hunted-s1-ep-1/tpv220713igmqn

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A NEW CHALLENGE COIN HAS APPEARED!!!

Desi preps for a presentation and workshop.

A LNK To The Past: Utilizing LNK Files For Your Investigations - https://www.thedfirspot.com/post/a-lnk-to-the-past-utilizing-lnk-files-for-your-investigations

Threat Horizons August 2023 Threat Horizons Report - chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/gcat_threathorizons_full_jul2023.pdf

Dynamically Analyzing Linux Black Basta Ransomware - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAfeGIMzsfw

PNG Steganography from First Principles - https://blog.xpnsec.com/png-steganography/

SANS DFIR Summit 2023 Recap - https://www.stark4n6.com/2023/08/sans-dfir-summit-2023-recap.html

AISA AdelaideSEC Conference: Friday 18 August 2023 - https://www.aisa.org.au/Public/Public/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=0e73681d-b41c-4856-9c43-688c7d39fe7a

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Desi gets nerdy with Pokemon.

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DFIQ - https://dfiq.org/

2022 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities - https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/view-all-content/alerts-and-advisories/2022-top-routinely-exploited-vulnerabilities

Hacking Active Directory for Beginners (over 5 hours of content!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXxH4n684HE

Pikabot deep analysis - https://d01a.github.io/pikabot/

Operating a SOC Analyst Home Lab - https://medium.com/@christoff.elce/operating-a-soc-analyst-home-lab-ffba27f8b022

This Week in 4n6 - https://thisweekin4n6.com/2023/08/06/week-32-2023/

Challenge Coin - https://shop.hardlyadequate.com/products/founderscoin

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Has it already been a week?!

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PREFETCH: THE LITTLE SNITCH THAT TELLS ON YOU - https://www.trustedsec.com/blog/prefetch-the-little-snitch-that-tells-on-you/

Conti and Akira: Chained Together - https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog-uk/conti-akira-chained-together/

Akira’s Play with Linux - https://labs.k7computing.com/index.php/akiras-play-with-linux/

Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys - https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-292-woods.pdf

BTLO Steam Lab - https://blueteamlabs.online/home/investigation/steam-b90e0d1916

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“Fail quickly, try something and know you've done the correct steps and then move on to something else." - Simon

This week we catch up with Simon Hulme and talk through his background in the police as a detective and then forging his path into cybersecurity and DFIR.

Course and certification suggestions:

Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator https://www.eccouncil.org/train-certify/computer-hacking-forensic-investigator-chfi/

Offensive Security Certified Practioner https://www.offsec.com/courses/pen-200/

Let's Defend https://letsdefend.io/

Security Blue Team https://securityblue.team/

Blue Team Labs Online https://blueteamlabs.online/

Suggested podcasts

Huberman Lab https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953110

The Tim Ferriss Show https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id863897795?i=1000604217968

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With little time on my hands this last week, I wanted to share quick and easily digestible things to help you feel across everything.

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What’s in a (file) path? - https://osdfir.blogspot.com/2023/07/whats-in-file-path.html

Threat Intelligence & The Cyber Kill Chain: The Complete Guide - https://flare.io/learn/resources/blog/threat-intelligence-cyber-kill-chain/

Mass Digital Forensics & Incident Response with Velociraptor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7bMfdmWR7A

Reverse Engineering Walkthrough | Analyzing A Sample Of Arechclient2 - https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/reverse-engineering-walkthrough-analyzing-a-sample-of-arechclient2/

5 Things to Know About Digital Forensics in Space - https://medium.com/forensic-horizons/5-things-to-know-about-digital-forensics-in-space-4542e135f5a3

M3gan (2022) - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/m3gan

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“Be good at the basics... it's okay not to know everything.” - Freeo

GitHub: https://github.com/angry-bender

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-f-7092491b0/

Masters course: https://www.murdoch.edu.au/course/Undergraduate/MJ-CSF

Instagram post from the developer: https://www.instagram.com/p/CnyywA0rKj8/?igshid=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==

Andy Cook chef: https://linktr.ee/andycooks?fbclid=PAAaZA0jmaHAnk5WIQGos_wtlJL-OVNTkGVWCkOOp__u5HUSzgwusgrsum5V0

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I was excited to share what I have been reading and listening to this week. BSides Brisbane 2023 made a considerable impact, and I can't wait to share some snippets with everyone and hopefully in some longer form content.

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Mitre's 11 Strategies of a Worl-Class Cybersecurity Operations Centre ebook - https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/publication/11-strategies-world-class-cybersecurity-operations-center

Blueprint podcast episode 0 - https://www.sans.org/podcasts/blueprint/11-strategies-of-a-world-class-security-operations-center-fundamentals-38/

Ryan Williams LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-williams-4068351b8/

Hacking Netcomm NF20MESH - Part 1 of (n) YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-OLPTfbVT4

Brendan S. - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bscarvell/?originalSubdomain=au

Shoto Shinogi

GitHub - https://sh1n0g1.github.io/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/Sh1n0g1

BTLO blue team training - https://blueteamlabs.online/

Dragon Friends most recent series - https://thedragonfriends.com/episodes/podcast/ok-computer/

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Come along as Desi recaps the things that caught his eye in yesterweek.

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Video Games Forensics: Steam, https://www.forensicxlab.com/posts/steam/.

LockBit on holiday tweet by VX-Underground: https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1677448226050383872.

Linux rootkits explained - Part 1: Dynamic linker hijacking by Avigayil Mechtinger, https://www.wiz.io/blog/linux-rootkits-explained-part-1-dynamic-linker-hijacking.

Juries, Judgements, and Credibility by Christa Miller, https://medium.com/forensic-horizons/june-2023-juries-judgments-and-credibility-f2e0f1522e1.

Cyberonix GitHub repository, https://github.com/TeamMetaxone/Cyberonix.

The Retrievals podcast, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/804/the-retrievals.

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This week we caught up with one of my mates from back when we were both learning cyber in the military. Come along for the story of Brendan's career; hopefully, it will connect with you.

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Show notes:

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%92%BB-brendan-chambers-bourgeois-568012155/

Bootcamp https://nsc.crawford.anu.edu.au/department-news/15515/cyber-bootcamp-project

TVET https://www.tvetaustralia.com.au/

Defence Lab https://cyberdefenselabs.com/

HTB: https://www.hackthebox.com/

Metasploit course: https://www.offsec.com/metasploit-unleashed/

SANS Courses: FOR500, SEC504, FOR572, FOR508, FOR509.

agoodcloud https://blog.agood.cloud/categories/thehive_misp_cortex/

Polyglot https://lingual.net/how-to-become-a-polygot/#:~:text=According%20to%20Dictionary.com%20polyglot,languages%20already%20since%20their%20childhood.

ESL https://play.eslgaming.com/australia

Rotor Ride https://www.lunaparksydney.com/rotor

Brach Education https://www.youtube.com/@BranchEducation

Ben Eater https://www.youtube.com/@BenEater

13cubed https://www.youtube.com/@13Cubed

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