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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
    application security  |  programming  |  rust  |  Obfuscate  |  litcrypt
    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
    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
    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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