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PenTest: Locating directories using GoBuster
Using a fast directory discovery tool called GoBuster you will locate a directory that you can use to upload a shell to. To install, sudo apt-get install gobuster GoBuster is a tool used to brute-force URIs (directories and files), DNS subdomains and virtual host names. For this machine, we will focus on using it to brute-force directories. … Read more
Digital Forensics and Investigations
Most used common passwords: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/passwords-passwords-everywhere Chain of Custody form: https://www.nist.gov/document/sample-chain-custody-formdocx pdfinfo – you can install it using sudo apt install poppler-utils here are many online and offline tools to read the EXIF data from images. One command-line tool is exiftool. ExifTool is used to read and write metadata in various file types, such as JPEG images. (The AttackBox … Read more
OWASP: A01:2021 – Broken Access Control
Access control enforces policy such that users cannot act outside of their intended permissions. Failures typically lead to unauthorized information disclosure, modification, or destruction of all data or performing a business function outside the user’s limits. Broken access control means that an attacker can access information or perform actions not intended for them. Common access … Read more
OWASP Top 10
A01:2021-Broken Access Control moves up from the fifth position to the category with the most serious web application security risk; the contributed data indicates that on average, 3.81% of applications tested had one or more Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) with more than 318k occurrences of CWEs in this risk category. The 34 CWEs mapped to Broken … Read more