Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

A better name than hacking is penetration testing. I’d say that everything I learned to this day was from online content or books and not from educational institutions. Q: Do you get a ton of requests to hack people’s Facebook accounts? Later, I heard about bug bounty hunting by coincidence and started doing it.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2025

Account takeover of a third-party service provider may put millions of airline users worldwide at risk. Summary Salt Labs has identified an account takeover vulnerability in a popular online top-tier travel service for hotel and car rentals. It provides online hotel and car rental booking solutions.

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Zigrin Security

JULY 19, 2023

One of the most effective ways to identify vulnerabilities in web applications is through web application penetration testing. By conducting web application penetration testing, companies can proactively address security issues and reduce the risk of a successful cyber attack.

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NetSpi Technical

JULY 16, 2024

LLMs are advanced AI systems developed by training on extensive text corpora, including books, articles, and websites. With the credentials in hand, we can authenticate to the AWS account directly and begin to take actions under the authorization of the compromised web server.

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 29, 2018

If you haven’t jumped in for whatever reason, we want to introduce you to the plethora of resources we’ve made available to help you master Kali Linux, the penetration testing distribution. We’ve made the book available for free in both online HTML and PDF versions because we love you. There is no difference.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 18, 2023

The finding comes from a Hewlett Packard internal report, and is often quoted in webinars, panels, talks, blogs, and books, including Lean In and The Confidence Code. To understand how we can work together book a DISCOVERY CALL. It’s usually raised as evidence that women need more confidence. Please re-read that last sentence.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

On the basis that they are a Cybersecurity company, the most plausible explanation is that a legitimate user account or an automated source code commit user (non-human user, system or application user) account was compromised. Potential user account compromise.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For a detailed threat actor description do not forget to check out our blog article about selecting between black-box, white-box, and grey-box penetration tests and also you would know which pentest you need against a specific threat actor. The second scenario is about account credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

The open source security tool, Nmap, originally focused on port scanning, but a robust community continues to add features and capabilities to make Nmap a formidable penetration testing tool. This article will delve into the power of Nmap, how attackers use Nmap, and alternative penetration testing (pentesting) tools.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

It offers a wide range of security testing capabilities, including code scanning, vulnerability assessment , and penetration testing. This includes different types of testing techniques such as static application testing, dynamic application testing, and interactive application security testing (more in the next section).

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 19, 2024

Likewise, information systems have allowed businesses to experience tremendous growth – today’s businesses face threats that, only a few decades ago, were the subject of solely science fiction books and movies. If you were charged with a serious crime, you would employ an attorney to help defend yourself.

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Fox IT

MARCH 19, 2020

A while back during a penetration test of an internal network, we encountered physically segmented networks. A couple of months ago, we did a network penetration test at one of our clients. In Active Directory, user accounts are objects to which extra information can be added. Written by Rindert Kramer.

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Zigrin Security

APRIL 26, 2023

One of them is an attacker who exploits a different vulnerability to bypass the authorization process and then uses this password confirmation bypass to change a user’s password or API key, effectively taking over their account. In the end, the attacker can then sell the compromised accounts on the dark web. How Exactly?

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Zigrin Security

MARCH 29, 2023

CEO, Cybersecurity Expert If you would like to conduct a white box penetration testing of your web application leave your email and I will contact you. This can result in limited vulnerability scanning due to account lockout. In this article, I will focus on the most popular plugin created by the CakePHP developers.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Today they account for only 25% of the cybersecurity workforce, a 1% improvement in the last two years. Many are referenced in my book, IN Security, Women are natural change agents and guardians with unique talents, and when women are included in business, they will create the safety, the prosperity, and the sustainability that’s needed.

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Zigrin Security

JUNE 28, 2023

Cookie theft: By exploiting XSS vulnerabilities, attackers can hijack user sessions by stealing their session cookies, which can lead to unauthorized account access. Book a chat with a cybersecurity expert [contact-form-7] Is this article helpful to you? The next one will describe the authentication bypass with /open prefix.

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Zigrin Security

APRIL 12, 2023

Even with careful attention, SQL injection vulnerability in input field name will be probably missed whether manually sql injection test conducted or scanned with most of the tools. This is why it’s good to conduct white box penetration testing or cybersecurity research. What is CRUD component? POST /auth_keys/index HTTP/1.1

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In addition to threat modeling, ATT&CK also provides frameworks for penetration testing, cybersecurity, and defense development. Credential access: The threat actor steals account credentials and uses them to increase their access within the system. Does your company need to be compliant with Threat Modeling ?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Kennedy founded cybersecurity-focused TrustedSec and Binary Defense Systems and co-authored Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The attackers are using administrative privileges to create fraudulent student accounts. As many as 600 bogus accounts have been created in a single day, with totals over several days running into the thousands. The Department of Education says the phony accounts are almost immediately being put to unspecified criminal use.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2021

I initially focused on internal audit and accounting types of certifications. Yet, although I didn't need another one, I looked at it just as we were getting ready to do a big penetration test of the US House of Representatives’ network. First, I bought study books, and I just read them cover to cover.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The attackers are using administrative privileges to create fraudulent student accounts. As many as 600 bogus accounts have been created in a single day, with totals over several days running into the thousands. The Department of Education says the phony accounts are almost immediately being put to unspecified criminal use.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The attackers are using administrative privileges to create fraudulent student accounts. As many as 600 bogus accounts have been created in a single day, with totals over several days running into the thousands. The Department of Education says the phony accounts are almost immediately being put to unspecified criminal use.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So basically, we deliver custom penetration tests. And that's just because it's not in the books VAMOSI: True. A lot of infosec’s knowledge is either tribal -- passed on from one person to another - or can be found in books. And right now we have a team that's almost 50 and we deal with cybersecurity services.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. available wherever books are sold. And, in the middle, grey box testing. I mean really?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. available wherever books are sold. And, in the middle, grey box testing. I mean really?

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In addition, he runs operations during penetration tests and exercises with clients, as well as managing client relationships. He has written 5 books on social engineering and has countless hands-on experiences in the field. Social-Engineer, LLC’s very own Ryan MacDougall was our next presenter. What’s Next?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It was for UNIX systems and it was created by Dan Farmer and Wheat-say Vene-ma, who then co-authored a book in 2005 called Forensic Discovery. Starting with penetration testing, ending up with incident response and forensics, so pretty much everything that is important for various customers all around the world.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

No, I simply bought Shon Harris’s massive book CISSP- All-in-One Exam Guide -- and read through it -- not one, twice. Then I took the test and hoped for the best. Authorization testing is just a nightmare. But almost every time there's multiple user accounts, I found, like multiple user roles, I found authorization issues.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

So I started attending Black Hat, Def Con, and after many years wrote my own book on the insecurity of internet of things devices. She died a few years ago, but I believe the book continues with other authors. And then I sat for six hours and took the test. Across all our different accounts? That's in the US alone.

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