I am working on a black box web application pentesting project for a client and while testing found an error-based SQL injection. I went on to exploit it using SQLMAP, I retrieved the Database names, Tables names, and Column names but when…
Hard drive in question has sensitive unencrypted data but has failed and no longer responds so can’t be wiped.
I’d like to physically destroy the said hard drive (3-1/2" desktop, spinning platter drive) before discarding it. What &quo…
The first few challenges narrowed the playing field drastically, with
most serious contestants holding firm through challenges 4-9. The last
two increased the difficulty level and proved a difficult final series
of challenges for a well-earned fi…
The first few challenges narrowed the playing field drastically, with
most serious contestants holding firm through challenges 4-9. The last
two increased the difficulty level and proved a difficult final series
of challenges for a well-earned fi…
One of Microsoft’s longstanding strategies toward improving software security continues to involve investing in defensive technologies that make it difficult and costly for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. These solutions generally have a broad an…
The URL example.com/auth will automatically redirect the user (HTTP 302) to example.com/signed_in.SWF?token=SENSITIVE.
Is it possible for an attacker to steal the token, using javascript or flash, in the following example? How?
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I’ve been reading in the last couple of days about CORS and in a lot of places it’s mentioned as it is a “Security” feature to help the world from cross domain forgery.
I still don’t see the benefit and the reasoning for CORS. Ok, browse…
Please Consider: English is my second language.
Background
I have been looking at different CP/CPS on the web. They all seem to roughly follow the same practices. However, two different policies differed: the first makes sense to me; t…
To secure my PC I have setup a BIOS password, preventing any access from a live-cd.
Recently I’ve noticed that when the BIOS asks for my password, I just have to press Enter to boot. It doesn’t work if I type just anything, but it works i…
My aim is to DNSspoof.
My network is using a wireless router with the address 192.168.1.1 and primary DNS is the same as the router address.
I have enabled Kernel IP forward in Linux.
DNS host file is
spoofhosts.txt
173.252.74.22 goog…
