Today we are going to discuss the relationship between Account Lockout Policy, badPwdCount, badPasswordTime, Event ID 4625 and Event ID 4740 in Windows domain environment. In fact, this is one of most important topics when we engage in designing SIEM solutions. Account Lockout Policy First of all, we start with the Account Lockout Policy in…
Extract password from exe – Part 1 Extract password from exe is one of the techniques that we may use during our red team engagement. Actually, there are tons of information that is available in an executable file. This information may include credentials, keys, database information, IP address, etc. Although we will use the red…
Preface Windows DNS logging is NOT our recommended method to collect DNS request and reply transaction for continuous security monitoring. However, sometimes we do not have an option, especially when Windows DNS debug/analytics log is the only available data source during IR investigation. In the first part of this post, we will discuss the Windows…