7 Minute Security
by Brian Johnson
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7MS #747: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 92
7MS #747: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 92
About this podcast
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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- 7MS #747: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 92 · 29 minToday's tale of pentest pwnage is about a GPO escalation path I'd seen before but could never get working, until a bloodhoundcli update introduced me to GroupPolicyBackdoor. I'll…
- 7MS #746: Claude is Really Good at PowerPoint · 34 minHey friends, today I'm sharing something that might be obvious, but really helped save my bacon this week: Claude is very good at PowerPoint. I was working on a presentation with…
- 7MS #745: Securing Your Family During and After a Disaster – Part 10 · 23 minThis episode is a downer, but asks some important topics related to losing a loved one: • Do you know what their wishes are for their funeral, their money, cremation vs. burial…
- 7MS #744: Using n8n to Automate the Security Dog Food · 27 minHey friends! Today I'm mashing two of our mini-series — eating the security dog food and my new obsession with n8n — into one big automation sandwich. I'll walk you through how…
- 7MS #743: Eating the Security Dog Food - Part 9 · 26 minHey friends, it has been a long time since we talked about eating our own security dog food. However, I couldn't be more excited about some big ways we've moved the 7MinSec…
- 7MS #742: Baby's First n8n · 27 minHey friends! I've got some personal and work travel this week, so I'm skipping the tangents (mostly) and jumping straight into something I'm nerdily excited about: Baby's First…
- 7MS #741: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 91 · 37 minHey friends! Today's tale of pentest pwnage is brought to you by four hours of sleep, a large mint hot cocoa, and unhealthy levels of giggity. There's a very good reason for all…
- 7MS #740: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 90 · 34 minHey friends! We've been on a bit of a Tales of Pentest Pwnage bender lately, so let's keep it rolling with Part 90. (And Mom, relax — this is not one pentest story chopped into…
- 7MS #739: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 89 · 18 minHey friends! Today is a tale of pentest pwnage episode, and this one features a path to escalation I have never seen before – one I could only find few references on the entire…
- 7MS #738: Baby's First ProjectDiscovery Neo · 29 minHey friends! Today I'm talking about Baby's First Neo — and to be crystal clear, I don't mean Keanu, and I don't mean the R&B guy with the hat. I mean the AI-powered pentest…
- 7MS #737: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 88 · 33 minHello friends! Today's tale of pentest pwnage isn't a start-to-finish march to DA – it's me finally emptying out the backlog of "gosh, I've got to share this next time" internal…
- 7MS #736: Securing Your Family During and After a Disaster – Part 9 · 30 minHey friends! Today's another slice of our Securing Your Family During and After a Disaster miniseries, and fair warning — it's a bit of a Friday mood-ruiner. It's been almost two…
- 7MS #735: Baby's First Cloudflare Tunnel · 25 minHey friends! Today's episode has a new-to-me toy up front and some podcast housekeeping on the back half – all recorded with a raging case of the anxious parent giggidies…
- 7MS #734: Insight Recon · 32 minHey friends! Today's episode is a two-parter: some security stuff up front, and then a big ol' personal celebration on the back half. If you're strictly here for the security…
- 7MS #733: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 87 · 24 minHey friends! Today's episode comes to you from a parking lot in the rain, with a mint hot cocoa in hand and your host absolutely dragging his butt (D-R-A-G-G-I-N-G, not…
- 7MS #732: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 86 · 40 minHey friends! Welcome back to another Tales of Pentest Pwnage — my favorite mini-series where I share the good, the bad, and the "why didn't I check THAT first?!" moments from…
- 7MS #731: CARTP – Cloud Red Team Tactics for Attacking and Defending Azure – THE FINAL CHAPTER! · 54 minHey friends! Fair warning: today's episode is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster — we've got a big security win, some honest lab feedback, and a very personal share about my…
- 7MS #730: Baby's First Project Swarm · 25 minHey friends! Still your grieving pal over here, but also your swarming friend and Protecting My Network Edge host — because this week I've been tinkering with something called…
- 7MS #729: Pwning Dracarys · 19 minHey friends! Still your grieving pal over here, but also your happy hacking host — because today we're diving into baby's first Dracarys! (Yes, I'm probably pronouncing that…
- 7MS #728: Securing Your Family During and After a Disaster – Part 8 · 38 minHey friends! This is a tough one to write. My dad passed away on Friday, and instead of the hacker-y tech episode I had planned, I pivoted to something more personal — another…
- 7MS #727: Securing Your Mental Health – Part 7 · 21 minHello friends! It's been over a year since we did a dedicated mental health episode, so today I'm doing a big catch-up and running through my 7-point plan for being a more…
- 7MS #726: Baby's First Hermes · 22 minHello friends! I've been on a bit of an AI agent journey lately, and today I'm sharing my experience ditching OpenClaw and going all-in on Hermes — a self-hosted AI agent built…
- 7MS #725: Building a Bulletproof Backup Solution · 22 minHey friends! Backups are not as cool as pentesting, but boy do they matter when things go sideways. This week I'm sharing how a Proxmox backup disk space meltdown led me to a…
- 7MS #724: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 85 · 30 minHey friends! Today we're going deep on external network pentesting — something I realize we've barely touched in however many episodes we've done. I'm currently in a long stretch…
- 7MS #723: CARTP - Cloud Red Team Tactics for Attacking and Defending Azure - Part 1 · 33 minHello friends! Today's a hybrid episode — some security content up top about a new certification I've kicked off, followed by an aggressively quick trip to Tangent Town. Feel…
- 7MS #722: I Turned My Phone Into a Brick · 24 minHey friends! Quasi-vacation week over here, so today's episode is lighter and more personal: just a story about how I turned my phone into a "brick" (kind of) and what that's…
- 7MS #721: Fun Professional and Personal AI Project Ideas – Part 2 · 25 minHello friends! Picking up the AI-automation series from a couple weeks back — here's another batch of scripts and integrations that have been giving me precious minutes (and…
- 7MS #720: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 84 · 44 minHey friends! Today's another Tales of Pentest Pwnage! Quick tangent first on a couple side projects: I've got a music thing at quack.house (like the duck noise, not the drug) and…
- 7MS #719: Baby's First OpenClaw · 29 minHey friends! This week's episode is "Baby's First OpenClaw" – basically me shouting into the void hoping a smart listener will DM me and explain why this thing is supposed to be…
- 7MS #718: Fun Professional and Personal AI Project Ideas · 28 minHey friends! After last week's heavy episode about my wife's health scare in Punta Cana, today's is a lighter one. (Quick update: she's doing better – still recovering, but…
- 7MS #717: I Gave Up My Wife's PHI (And I'd Do It Again) · 49 minHello friends! Today's episode is a bit of a detour from our usual content — it's part vacation horror story, part security/privacy confession. My wife got seriously ill during…
- 7MS #716: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 83 · 33 minToday is my favorite pentest pwnage tale of 2026 – and maybe ever! It centers around an ADCS abuse via an attack path I'd never seen before. Tips include: • Use Netexec to pull…
- 7MS #715: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 82 · 20 minHola friends! Today's another fun tale of pentest pwnage. This time we started with no credentials and then set off on the bumpy journey from no-cred zero to domain admin hero!…
- 7MS #714: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 81 · 22 minHello friends! We're back with a fun tale of internal network pentest pwnage. This one highlights how AI can be used (with some guardrails!) to automate the boring stuff – and…
- 7MS #713: How to Secure Your Community – Part 3 · 31 minHello friends, in today's edition of How to Secure Your Community, I give a brief recap of part 1 and part 2, and then dive into some cool phone shortcuts you can setup so that…
- 7MS #712: How to Secure Your Community - Part 2 · 37 minHello friends. Today's episode piggybacks off of last week's discussion of Operation Metro Surge and how it has affected the state of Minnesota. I also highly encourage you to…
- 7MS #711: How to Secure Your Community · 52 minHello friends, it's good to be back with you. I took a podcast hiatus in January to focus on helping communities affected by Operation Metro Surge. Today I share how my family…
- 7MS #710: I'm Taking a Break · 4 minHi friends, I'm going to be taking a break from producing podcast episodes, as well as content over at 7MinSec.club. It's a temporary break, so please don't unsubscribe…
- 7MS #709: Second Impressions of Twingate · 20 minHey friends, in episode #649 I gave you my first impressions of Twingate. It's been a minute, so I thought I'd revisit Twingate (specifically this awesome Twingate LXC) and talk…
- 7MS #708: Tales of Pentest Fail – Part 6 · 26 minAfter sharing a recent story about how a phishing campaign went south, I heard feedback from a lot of you. You either commiserated with my story, told me I wussed out, and/or had…
- 7MS #707: Our New Pentest Course Has Launched! · 14 minToday we're thrilled to announce the launch of LPLITE:GOAD (Light Pentest Live Interactive Training Experience: Game of Active Directory). The first class is coming up Tuesday…
- 7MS #706: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 80 · 29 minI'm so excited to share today's tale of pentest pwnage, because it brings back to life a coercion technique I thought wouldn't work against Windows 11! Spoiler alert: check out…
- 7MS #705: A Phishing Campaign Fail Tale · 22 minThis might be obvious, but security is not all domain admin dancing and maximum pwnage. Sometimes, despite my best efforts, a security project does a faceplant. Today's episode…
- 7MS #704: DIY Pentest Dropbox Tips – Part 12 · 25 minHola friends! My week has very much been about trying to turnaround pentest dropboxes as quickly as possible. In that adventure, I came across two time-saving discoveries: •…
- 7MS #703: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 79 · 22 minHappy Thanksgiving week friends! Today we're celebrating a turkey and pie overload by sharing another fun tale of pentest pwnage! It involves using pygpoabuse to hijack a GPO and…
- 7MS #702: Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest? · 21 minHello friends, in today's episode I give an audio summary of a talk I gave this week at the MN GOVIT Symposium called "Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest?" It's not a…
- 7MS #701: What I'm Working on This Week – Part 5 · 18 minHello friends! This week I'm talking about what I'm working on this week, including: • Preparing a talk called Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest for the Minnesota…
- 7MS #700: Pretender · 8 minToday is episode 700 of the 7MinSec podcast! Oh my gosh. My mom didn't think we could do it, but we did. Instead of a big blowout with huge news, giveaways and special guests…
- 7MS #699: Pre-Travel Security Tips · 30 minToday we discuss some pre-travel tips you can use before hopping on a plane to start a work/personal adventure. Tips include: • Updating the family DR/BCP plan • Lightening your…
- 7MS #698: Baby's First ProjectDiscovery · 25 minToday I give a quick review of the cloud version of ProjectDiscovery (not a sponsor!).
