Linkedin Ethical Hacking: Evading Ids, Firewalls, And Honeypots Videos |work| May 2026

Anya cross-referenced. Asterion Defense Solutions. A mid-tier government subcontractor. Their public job postings listed “Palo Alto PA-220 experience preferred.” Their Shodan footprint showed an exposed SNMP port on a public IP. Default community string? Public . She tested it from a coffee shop Wi-Fi. The read-only string worked. The read-write string was a hash that looked suspiciously like admin:password .

By video seven, Cipher was demoing a “honeypot detection script.” He showed how a fake SMB share would respond with a specific latency window. But he accidentally typed the IP of his real internal logging server into the script’s exception list. Anya paused the video. Zoomed. Cropped. The IP resolved to a VPS in Virginia. A quick nmap showed port 22 open, port 443 open, and a self-signed cert with a CN: internal-ids.asterion.local . Anya cross-referenced

In video five, he mentioned a specific firewall model—a Palo Alto PA-220—and joked about its “default community string vulnerability.” He laughed. “Don’t tell anyone I said that.” But he’d already told everyone who was listening closely enough. Their public job postings listed “Palo Alto PA-220

In video three, at 14:22, Cipher’s terminal flashed a directory path: /mnt/asterion/internal/customer_data/ . A real hacker never shows a real path. That was a breadcrumb. She tested it from a coffee shop Wi-Fi

Three minutes later, the videos vanished. Five minutes later, her phone rang. Unknown number.

She hit send.

She didn’t need to brute-force. She just needed to watch the rest of the videos.