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How to DoS the Cisco Identity Services Engine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the journey to CCNA Security (210-260)

  • Option 1: Try to login ise
  • Option 2: Do not login for 45 days…. because you forgot you had an ISE lab running
  • Double or nothing: Do not login for 45 days because you forgot the password scribbled somewhere on your labnotes
  • Protip: The admin password can vary for the cli and web gui, however, this can be a double edged sword – also might want to change the default password expiry
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Adjusting log timestamps to localtime on Cisco IOS devices

Correlating Log files are an important aspect when responding to incidents/attacks/outages regarding your Cisco devices.

However I have noticed for a while that my logging timestamps are off an hour from the actual clock synced by NTP.

After some digging I realized that Cisco devices use
service timestamps log datetime
as a default. You can check the default values using the command:
sh run all | inc timestamp
In order for your logs to use the local clock time you need to issue the command
device(config)# service timestamp log datetime localtime
From now on, your logging timestamp should be identical to your local time on the device.

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Turkey Citizens respond to Twitter censorship (via DNS)

Internet censorship is bad – especially when it is abused to censor media reports about potentially corrupt government officials. Luckily a lot of incompetent people try to implement censorship via DNS.

Censorship via DNS is a method which is pretty easy to bypass and some people have responded to this this:

http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/twitter-ban-turkey-graffiti/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss

And no, I will not go into detail here on how to do it right – for obvious reasons….

 

 

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Cisco ACL resequencing

Managing Access Lists on Cisco IOS devices can be a real headache. Copying ACLs and Editing them in a Text Editor was a widely spread method until extended ACLs implemented Named Access Lists (nacls) with featured sequence numbers.

Extended IP access list my_acl_in
2 permit icmp ..... (1234 matches)
3 permit ip any host x.x.x.x
10 permit ip ....
11 permit ip ....
12 permit ip ....
13 permit ip ....
14 permit tcp any host ...... eq 443
15 permit tcp any host ...... eq www

Btw. the IPv6 Access list sequence numbers are placed at the end

permit tcp host 2001:DB8:1::32 host 2001:DB8:2::32 eq ssh sequence 1

Sequence Numbers allow for quick changes to an ACL without the copy&paste foo. A growing and ever changing ACL however can post a challange to your sequencing once the gaps are filled. In order to realign your Access Control Entries you can use the resequence command to put your ACEs in order again.

r1(config)#ip access-list resequence ?
<1-99> Standard IP access-list number
<100-199> Extended IP access-list number
<1300-1999> Standard IP access-list number (expanded range)
<2000-2699> Extended IP access list number (expanded range)
WORD Access-list name

r1(config)#ip access-list resequence my_acl_in ?
<1-2147483647> Starting Sequence Number

r1(config)#ip access-list resequence my_acl_in 5 ?
<1-2147483647> Step to increment the sequence number

r1(config)#ip access-list resequence my_acl_in 5 5

will resequence your ACEs to look something like this:

Extended IP access list my_acl_in
5 permit icmp ..... (1234 matches)
10 permit ip any host x.x.x.x
15 permit ip ....
20 permit ip ....
25 permit ip ....
30 permit ip ....
35 permit tcp any host ...... eq 443
40 permit tcp any host ...... eq www

This feature will definitely help to keep your sanity.

I find it quite a bit strange that this fuction is not mentioned on neither the 640-802 CCNA nor the 640-554 CCNA Security Cert Guides.

For more infos, check out the Cisco ACL sequence numbering guide