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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 7 - API Testing with Postman and ZAP

application security | OWASP | API

If you’ve done any significant amount of API development, there’s a good chance you’ve used ...

Twelve Days of ZAPMAS - Day 6 - Passive Flaw Detection and Using the HUD

application security | OWASP | web application security | scanning

One of the awesome things about a security-focused interception proxy like ZAP is its ability to ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 5 - Scope and Contexts

application security | OWASP | web application security | scope

Normally I don’t like having my interception proxy hide out-of-scope traffic. Doing so creates a ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 4 - Fuzzing for Injection

web penetration testing | application security | web application security | how-to

I briefly introduced fuzzing earlier in the series, citing it as the second primitive upon which ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 3 - CYA (Cover Your Auth)

application security | OWASP | web application security | how-to

Access control is one of the crucial elements to application security. The vast majority of ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 2 - The Edge of Tomorrow

Day 2 - The Edge of Tomorrow - Replaying and Tampering with Requests Fuzzing and tampering are like ...

Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 1 - Setting Up ZAP

web penetration testing | application security | OWASP | web application security | how-to

This holiday season, I’m going to run down some of the ins and outs of working with OWASP Zed ...

Quick Bites Ep 6 - Good Hygiene is IMPORTANT, PEOPLE!

So, I just missed a week of work because of the flu (it wasn’t COVID, I got tested). The flu SUCKS. ...

How to iterate through advfirewall rules

There are several ways to pull firewall information from a Windows system. Today we will leverage ...

Introduction to Writing Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) Scripts

NMAP | programming | NSE

One thing I notice a lot of people are missing in their skill set as security professionals is the ...

Quick Bites Ep 5 - The Call Is Coming From INSIDE THE HOUSE

hacking | Quick Bites | Insider Threat | Attacks | Halloween

Man, I’ll be honest - I’m super excited to be doing a Halloween-themed blog post this year. So, ...

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