Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 So as my own personal learning journey into the land of mad hax, I thought I would document something Windows-y for a change (something completely out of my comfort zone…). This is the blog no-one necessarily asked for, but I feel would be hugely beneficial to those new to professional pentesting – …
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜 🤍 🤍🤍 In this post, we are slightly diverging from the original MOBster series and taking a look at Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is the first of two posts that will walk you through hosting and building a simple website… Yes, the web dev bug has bitten me, all because I …
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Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 Continuing our journey into the land of web hax, this week (as requested by the world of Twitter) we are covering SQL injection basics. What is SQL? SQL stands for Structured Query Language and is commonly used by various applications to interact with a database, usually submitting queries to retrieve specific information. …
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 We are continuing on our quest to conquer the OWASP Mobile Top 10, and if you have been following this series then congratulations, you have made it to M4: Insecure Authentication! This post is going to delve into the world of how mobile apps can use weak authentication methods and how an …
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜🤍🤍🤍 Need to bruteforce directory names on a web application? Or perhaps you need to find unlisted files on a web server? Who ya gonna call? DIRBUSTER! So first thing’s first, the boring pentesty theory bit before we do all the mad hax and walkthrough the basics of Dirbuster. Remember this neat little …
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 Welcome back to another MOBster post! It’s part three of our OWASP Mobile Top 10 series and in this post, we are covering M3: Insecure Communication! The previous MOBster post covered M2: Insecure Data Storage, and you can check that out here. Like M2: Insecure Data Storage, this vulnerability is easy to …
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I’ve always been a perfectionist. I’ve always striven to be the best version of me that I could be! When I started in university and my journey into cybersecurity, I pushed myself to stand out, be “perfect” and to do it with no mistakes. An impossible task, I realise now, but I kept pushing myself …
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Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 Oh no, it’s another one from the MOBster series coming to get you! Hide… Run… Read with intrigue! This post is covering, M2: Insecure Data Storage, the second listing from the OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks list. The last post in the MOBster series covered M1: Improper Platform Usage. Insecure data storage …
Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 First thing’s first! Let’s talk definitions. So, what actually is risk management? To put it simply, it is the management of the risk within an organisation (doh!). The risk management process involves identifying security risks and creating and implementing plans to mitigate them. Defining Risk Risk is defined as a potential event …
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Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 This week is special, it’s the last post before Christmas and we might as well channel our inner Sophia and add in a little Christmas song to get us into the Christmas spirit. And since we are now feeling festive, let’s dive into Google Dorking, Christmas style! Google Dorking was my first …