Red Team Training at BlackHat USA
Before developing Cobalt Strike, I conducted interviews with several penetration testing practitioners. I wanted to dig into their process, the tools they used, the gaps
National CCDC Red Team – Fair and Balanced
Saturday, 6:30pm ended my 2013 red teaming season. I’ve participated in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition as a red team volunteer since 2008. I love
Metasploit 4.6 – Now with less Open Source GUI
Last week, I received an email from Tod B. at Rapid7 stating that the next binary installer of Metasploit would ship without Armitage and msfgui.
WRCCDC – A Red Team Member’s Perspective
Western Regional CCDC was pretty epic. Given the level of interest in red activity, I’d like to share what I can. So much happened, I
Pivoting through SSH
This is a pretty quick tip, but still useful. When you SSH to a host, you may use the -D flag to setup “dynamic” application-level
Missing in Action: Armitage on Kali Linux
As you may know, the highly anticipated Kali Linux is now available. If you’ve fired it up, you may notice it’s missing a familiar tool.
HOWTO Integrate third-party tools with Cortana
One of the goals of Cortana is to give you the ability to integrate third-party tools and agents into Armitage and Cobalt Strike’s red team
Cobalt Strike Updates 03.06.13
Just in time for this weekend’s North East Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition event, I have a fresh update to Armitage and Cobalt Strike. Here’s the
Deprecation Notice: Metasploit source checkouts will NO LONGER update over SVN – Move to Git
The official home of the Metasploit Framework’s source code has been github for a while now. Ever since the move to Git, Rapid7 has operated
My Software Development Practices: The Joel Test
Joel Spolsky is one of my favorite writers on the topic of software development. He coined a 12-step Joel Test to determine if your company