Hosted by Brian Johnson · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 723 episodes
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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.
Brian Johnson hosts 7 Minute Security, a technology show with 723 episodes published.
Hey 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 installment of our "Securing Your Family Dur
Hello 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 mentally secure me. None of this is professional
Hello 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 by Nous Research . A Network Chuck video so
Hey 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 completely overhauled — and honestly pretty b
Hey 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 of back-to-back external assessments, so
Hello 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 free to bail after the security stuff if tang
Hey 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 done for my mental health over the past week.
Hello 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 sanity) back. Yes, I had to upgrade to Claude
Hey 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 a podcast with my dancer son Atticus at D
Hey 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 life-changing. Because right now? I'm a li
Hey 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 appetite's back and she's got some pep again. T
Hello 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 our spring break trip to Punta Cana, and in
Today 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 Powershell history Trying to steal reg hives
Hola 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! One specific reference in today's podcast t
Hello 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 even help you pick part DLLs to find gold nu
Hello 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 with a single tap, you can alert friends/fa
Hello 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 read this Rolling Stone article which featur
Hello 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 and community has been affected by it. And t
Hi 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, unfollow, etc. I need some extra time/energy to in
Hey 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 about how we're using it to (almost) entir
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