In a command injection you trick a service into doing something for you that it would not normally do. Does that mean that command injections are examples of (exploiting) confused deputies? Does the reverse also hold?
More generally, are …
To which (STRIDE/CIA+AAA) security category do command injection attacks belong?
Or is my question too simplistic? Does it depend on the specifics of the injection attack (trying to get at confidential information, trying to cause a denial…
Lets say I have server A (a web server). Users initially use an external provider such as Google to get authenticated on that server. An entry is created in my database saying that this user has logged in before and has confirmed their acc…
For research purposes, I’m conducting an ethical phishing attack in my institution. I have permission from the institution for the same. I’ve created the phishing site and the email content, and I’ll be recording who and how many users vis…
For research purposes, I’m conducting an ethical phishing attack in my institution. I have permission from the institution for the same. I’ve created the phishing site and the email content, and I’ll be recording who and how many users vis…
What is the difference between an IT security policy, an information security policy and a cyber security policy?
I am trying to exploit a Windows VM on a different subnet behind a dual home Linux VM where I already have a shell. To keep it simple, I have a meterpreter reverse_tcp shell on the Linux VM (192.168.47.144) and the Windows VM (192.168.128….
About 4 or 5 weeks ago, i read a article on THN(the hacker news) that the ccleaner servers were hacked to distribute malware and as a result millions of computers were affected who had downloaded and installed ccleaner in month of August. …
I’m currently testing a site where the host header is used for creating a recovery email link. However, when I try to manipulate the host header in Burp I get an HTTP 400 message saying I’m using an invalid hostname. I get this error even …
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) receives reports about potential vulnerabilities in our products and it’s the job of our engineering team to assess the severity, impact, and root cause of these issues. In practice, a significant proportio…
