7 Minute Security

Brian Johnson

7 Minute Security is a weekly information security podcast focusing on penetration testing, blue teaming and building a career in security. The podcast also features in-depth interviews with industry leaders who share their insights, tools, tips and tricks for being a successful security engineer.

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May 3, 2025 · 30 min
7MS #673: ProxmoxRox
Today we're excited to release ProxmoxRox – a repo of info and scripts to help you quickly spin up Ubuntu and Windows VMs. Also, some important news items: 7MinSec.club in-person meeting is happening Wednesday, May 14! More details here. We did our second Tuesday TOOLSday this week and showed you some local privesc techniques when you have local admin on an endpoint
Apr 25, 2025 · 55 min
7MS #672: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 70
Today's a fun tale of pentest pwnage where we leveraged a WinRM service ticket in combination with the shadow credentials attack, then connected to an important system using evil-winrm and make our getaway with some privileged Kerberos TGTs! I also share an (intentionally) vague story about a personal struggle I could use your thoughts/prayers/vibes with.
Apr 18, 2025 · 25 min
7MS #671: Pentesting GOAD
Hello! This week Joe "The Machine" Skeen and I kicked off a series all about pentesting GOAD (Game of Active Directory). In part one we covered: Checking for null session enumeration on domain controllers Enumerating systems with and without SMB signing Scraping AD user account descriptions Capturing hashes using Responder Cracking hashes with Hashcat
Apr 11, 2025 · 36 min
7MS #670: Adventures in Self-Hosting Security Services
Hi friends, today I'm kicking off a series talking about the good/bad/ugly of hosting security services. Today I talk specifically about transfer.zip. By self-hosting your own instance of transfer.zip, you can send and receive HUGE files that are end-to-end encrypted using WebRTC. Sweet! I also supplemented today's episode with a short live video over at 7MinSec.club.
Apr 4, 2025 · 42 min
7MS #669: What I'm Working on This Week – Part 3
Hi friends, in this edition of what I'm working on this week: 3 pulse-pounding pentests that had…problems Something I'm calling the unshadow/reshadow credentials attack Heads-up on a new video experiment I'm going to try next week
Mar 28, 2025 · 30 min
7MS #668: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 69
Hola friends! Today's tale of pentest pwnage talks about abusing Exchange and the Azure ADSync account! Links to the discussed things: adconnectdump – for all your ADSync account dumping needs! Adam Chester PowerShell script to dump MSOL service account dacledit.py (part of Impacket) to give myself full write privileges on the MSOL sync account: dacledit.py -action 'write' -rights 'FullControl' -principal lowpriv -target MSOL-SYNC-ACCOUNT -dc-ip 1.2.3.4 domain.com/EXCHANGEBOX$ -k -no-pass Looking to tighten up your Exchange permissions – check out this crazy detailed post
Mar 21, 2025 · 28 min
7MS #667: Pentesting GOAD SCCM - Part 2!
Hey friends, our good buddy Joe "The Machine" Skeen and I are back this week with part 2 (check out part 1!) tackling GOAD SCCM again! Spoiler alert: this time we get DA! YAY! Definitely check out these handy SCCM resources to help you – whether it be in the lab or IRL (in real life): GOAD SCCM walkthrough MisconfigurationManager – tremendous resource for enumerating/attacking/privesc-ing within SCCM This gist from Adam Chester will help you decrypt SCCM creds stored in SQL
Mar 14, 2025 · 45 min
7MS #666: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 68
Today we have a smattering of miscellaneous pentest tips to help you pwn all the stuff! Selective Snaffling with Snaffler The importance of having plenty of dropbox disk space – for redundant remote connectivity and PXE abuse! TGTs can be fun for SMB riffling, targeted Snaffling, netexec-ing and Evil-WinRMing!
Mar 7, 2025 · 28 min
7MS #665: What I'm Working on This Week - Part 2
Hello there friends, I'm doing another "what I'm working on this week" episode which includes: BPATTY v1.6 release – big/cool/new content to share here PWPUSH – this looks to be an awesome way (both paid and free) to securely share files and passwords
Feb 28, 2025 · 25 min
7MS #664: What I'm Working on This Week
In today's episode I talk about what I'm working on this week, including: Playing with Sliver C2 and pairing it with ShellcodePack Talking about Netexecer, my upcoming tool that helps automate some of the early/boring stuff in an internal pentest A gotcha to watch out for if utilizing netexec's MSSQL upload/download functionality
Feb 21, 2025 · 29 min
7MS #663: Pentesting GOAD SCCM
Today we live-hack an SCCM server via GOAD SCCM using some attack guidance from Misconfiguration Manager! Attacks include: Unauthenticated PXE attack PXE (with password) attack Relaying the machine account of the MECM box over to the SQL server to get local admin
Feb 14, 2025 · 37 min
7MS #662: Pentesting Potatoes - Part 2
Hi friends, today we're talking about pentesting potatoes (not really, but this episode is sort of a homage to episode 333 where I went to Boise to do a controls assessment and ended up doing an impromptu physical pentest and social engineer exercise). I talk about what a blast I'm having hunting APTs in XINTRA LABS, and two cool tools I'm building with the help of Cursor: A wrapper for Netexec that quickly finds roastable users, machines without SMB signing, clients running Webclient and more. A sifter of Snaffler-captured files to zero in even closer on interesting things such as usernames and passwords in clear text.
Feb 8, 2025 · 37 min
7MS #661: Baby's First Hetzner and Ludus – Part 2
Today we continue our journey from last week where we spun up a Hetzner cloud server and Ludus.cloud SCCM pentesting range! Topics include: Building a Proxmox Backup Server (this YouTube video was super helpful) Bridging a second WAN IP to the Hetzner/Ludus server Wrestling with the Hetzner (10-rule limit!) software firewall When attacking SCCM – you can get a version of pxethief that runs in Linux!
Feb 1, 2025 · 34 min
7MS #660: Baby's First Hetzner and Ludus
I had an absolute ball this week spinning up my first Hetzner server, though it was not without some drama (firewall config frustrations and failing hard drives). Once I got past that, though, I got my first taste of the amazing world of Ludus.cloud, where I spun up a vulnerable Microsoft SCCM lab and have started to pwn it. Can't say enough good things about Ludus.cloud, but I certainly tried in this episode!
Jan 24, 2025 · 28 min
7MS #659: Eating the Security Dog Food - Part 8
Today I'm excited about some tools/automation I've been working on to help shore up the 7MinSec security program, including: Using Retype as a document repository Leveraging the Nessus API to automate the downloading/correlating of scan data Monitoring markdown files for "last update" changes using a basic Python script
Jan 17, 2025 · 32 min
7MS #658: WPA3 Downgrade Attacks
Hey friends, today we cover: The shiny new 7MinSec Club BPATTY updates A talk-through of the WPA3 downgrade attack, complemented by the YouTube livestream
Jan 10, 2025 · 20 min
7MS #657: Writing Rad Security Documentation with Retype
Hello friends! Today we're talking about a neat and quick-to-setup documentation service called Retype. In a nutshell, you can get Retype installed on GitHub pages in about 5 minutes and be writing beautiful markdown pages (with built-in search) immediately. I still absolutely love Docusaurus, but I think Retype definitely gives it a run for its money.
Jan 3, 2025 · 45 min
7MS #656: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 21
Happy new year friends! Today we talk about business/personal resolutions, including: New year's resolution on the 7MinSec biz side to have a better work/life balance New training offering in the works Considering Substack as a communications platform A mental health booster that I came across mostly by accident
Dec 30, 2024 · 58 min
7MS #655: Happy Hacking Holidays
Today we're doing a milkshake of several topics: wireless pentest pwnage, automating the boring pentest stuff with cursor.ai, and some closing business thoughts at 7MinSec celebrates its 7th year as a security consultancy. Links discussed today: AWUS036ACH wifi card (not my favorite anymore) Panda PAU09 N600 (love this one!) The very important Github issue that helped me better understand BPFs and WPA3 attacks TrustedSec article on WPA3 downgrade attacks
Dec 13, 2024 · 41 min
7MS #654: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 67
Today we've got some super cool stuff to cover today! First up, BPATTY v1.4 is out and has a slug of cool things: A whole new section on old-school wifi tools like airmon-ng, aireplay-ng and airodump-ng Syntax on using two different tools to parse creds from Dehashed An updated tutorial on using Gophish for phishing campaigns The cocoa-flavored cherry on top is a tale of pentest pwnage that includes: Abusing SCCM Finding gold in SQL configuration/security audits