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 Continue Reading
Drop it Like it’s Hot: SQLi 101
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 Continue Reading
MOBster4: Insecure Authentication
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 Continue Reading
Who Ya Gonna Call? DirBuster!
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 Continue Reading
Liability: Insecure Data Storage
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 Continue Reading
What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a MOBster, is it a MOBster!?
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 Welcome back to the MOBster series! The last post I published, covered the different aspects of an APK file – otherwise known as an app. This post I want to take some of these principles a step further and look at the possible effects of a misconfigured Continue Reading
What in the APK?!
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 This week I wanted to write the first post of a mini mobile application reverse engineering series! There has been a lot of attention in the news about apps such as TikTok and the COVID-19 NHS track and trace app, where they have been shown to have Continue Reading
They See Me Scannin’, They Hatin’: A Beginner’s Guide to Nmap
Estimated Difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 Recon, Recon, Recon One of the most important phases of an attack, is the reconnaissance phase. Often abbreviated to recon, this phase usually consists of a variety of process and techniques to collect information about a target system. This phase may also be known as “Information Gathering” Continue Reading
Bop to the Top: A Linux Priv Esc. Checklist
Estimated Difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 Congratulations, you’ve got a foothold!Now what? Bop to the Top and get yourself some Root! The following blog will detail my own personal checklist that I run through when attempting to privilege escalate in a Linux environment. From my personal experience, it has a fairly good success Continue Reading
I’m in Chroot Jail, Get Me Out of Here!
Estimated Difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 So you’ve hacked it. You got root. Or do you? What is a chroot jail? Chroot jails can fool attackers to think that they supposedly have immediate root privilege access to the environment. Chroot in Unix operating systems help change the apparent root (chroot) directory. I guess Continue Reading