Professionally Evil Insights
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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 ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 1 - Setting Up ZAP
This holiday season, I’m going to run down some of the ins and outs of working with OWASP Zed ...
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Coming Soon - Twelve Days of ZAPmas
In December of 2018, I published a twelve-day series of cross-site scripting tips, tricks, and ...
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JuiceShop Workshop in less than 5 minutes
Training |
application security |
OWASP |
AWS |
IaC |
JuiceShop |
Containers |
AWS_ECS |
workshops |
Vagrant |
AWS-CDK
Have you ever deployed 10-30 containers in AWS with the single stroke of a key? (well if you don’t ...
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How to Obfuscate Strings in Rust the Easy Way Using the litcrypt Crate
Overview Static strings in a binary can make the life easier for reverse engineers, be those ...
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Application Security 202: Vulnerabilities Accepted
Testing |
Vulnerability |
Guidance |
data breach |
information security |
penetration testing |
application security |
professionally evil |
Secure Ideas |
hacking |
best practices |
cybersecurity |
Privilege Escalation
vul·ner·a·bil·i·ty The quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or ...
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(Not So) Quick Bites - Episode 3 - Writing About Writer's Block
Deliverables |
consulting |
application security |
Secure Ideas |
cybersecurity |
methodology |
Project |
Writing |
Quick Bites
So, sometimes I have a real problem with writing, specifically reports and blog posts. Somehow, ...
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Hunting Secrets
Applications are hemorrhaging sensitive data. In many cases, the culprit is marketing and analytics ...
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Quick Bites Episode 2 - HTTP Security Headers and Why You NEED Them
Hi everybody! So, after some feedback about the last “quick” Quick Bites (thanks Josh!), I’ve ...
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Privilege Escalation via File Descriptors in Privileged Binaries
application security |
professionally evil |
Secure Ideas |
Linux |
programming |
File Descriptors |
SetUID |
Privilege Escalation
Today I wanted to cover an application security topic that applies to SetUID binaries. As we all ...
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LD_PRELOAD: Making a Backdoor by Hijacking accept()
application security |
professionally evil |
Secure Ideas |
LD_PRELOAD |
accept |
dup2 |
make |
Linux |
programming |
Shared Objects |
dlsym |
shell |
backdoor |
rootkit |
userland |
ELF |
inject |
injection
Today I want to continue the series on using LD_PRELOAD. In previous posts, we covered how to ...
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