Scott Sutherland
Scott is currently responsible for the development, and execution of network penetration testing at NetSPI. His role includes researching and developing tools, techniques, and methodologies used during network and application penetration tests. Scott has been providing IT security services to medium sized to Fortune 50 companies for over 10 years. As an active participant in the information security community, Scott also contributes technical security blog posts, whitepapers, and presentations on a regular basis through NetSPI. Published presentations can be found here. Scott's most recent project is PowerUpSQL.
August 1st, 2016
Blindly Discover SQL Server Instances with PowerUpSQL
In this blog I’ll show how PowerUpSQL can be used to blindly discover SQL Server instances on a system, network, or domain.
July 15th, 2016
PowerUpSQL: A PowerShell Toolkit for Attacking SQL Server
The PowerUpSQL module supports SQL Server instance discovery, auditing for common weak configurations, and privilege escalation on scale.
April 11th, 2016
Maintaining Persistence via SQL Server – Part 2: Triggers
In this blog, I’ll show how three types of SQL Server triggers can be abused to maintain access to Windows environments.
March 7th, 2016
Maintaining Persistence via SQL Server – Part 1: Startup Stored Procedures
In this blog I show how to use SQL Server startup stored procedures to maintain access to Windows environments and share a PowerShell script to automate the attack…
July 31st, 2015
PowerShell Remoting Cheatsheet
I have become a big fan of PowerShell Remoting. I find my self using it for both penetration testing and standard management tasks. In this blog I’ll share a basic PowerShell Remoting cheatsheet so you can too.
July 27th, 2015
Auto-Dumping Domain Credentials using SPNs, PowerShell Remoting, and Mimikatz
In this blog I’ll cover some Mimikatz history and share my script “Invoke-MassMimikatz-PsRemoting.psm1”, which tries to expand on other people’s work.
May 21st, 2015
A Faster Way to Identify High Risk Windows Assets
Thanks to the wonderfulness of Active Directory both red and blue teams can easily identify high risk Windows systems in their environments.
March 16th, 2015
Hacking SQL Server Procedures – Part 4: Enumerating Domain Accounts
Introduction In SQL Server, security functions and views that allow SQL logins to enumerate domain objects should only be accessible to sysadmins. However, in this blog I’ll show how to enumerate Active Directory domain users, groups, and computers through native SQL Server functions using logins that only have the Public server role (everyone). I’ll also […]
January 12th, 2015
Hacking SQL Server Stored Procedures – Part 3: SQL Injection
In this blog I’ve covered how SQL injection can be identified and exploited to escalate privileges in SQL Server stored procedures when they are configured to execute with…