I *love* incident response stories

*love*

@nerdiosity 's talk is so good

#BSides #BSidesVI #infosec

@fsnk @nerdiosity

I'll have a doozy of a story for ya in a few days hopefully because the details are still unfolding!

It involves an unknown, completely undiscovered zero day in
#Citrix #Netscaler that allowed complete session takeover to happen. Then the ninjas came...just kidding, no ninjas. Instead of ninjas insert 6 analysts and 5 sleepless nights, which is pretty close.

More at 11 on this breaking story!

@fsnk
It was a really good talk!
@nerdiosity took my incident response list from 3 to 11 items!

The only one not covered was "don't panic, go make a cup of tea" that I got taught by @leifnixon a long time ago in intoduction to incident response for sysadmins.

(The other two were "bring in appropriate people" and "have backups that you can restore")

@maswan @fsnk @leifnixon
I’m a tea drinker! I can’t believe I missed that one! 😂
@nerdiosity
The rationale was roughly that the instant stress response to seeing your systems compromised is more likely to make you make destructive mistakes than taking 15 minutes longer to respond with a bit of calmer thought behind it.
@fsnk @leifnixon
@maswan @nerdiosity @fsnk Sometimes I use the alternative phrasing "STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD! DO IT NOW!", but the cup of tea version is nicer.