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OWASP 10 – Injection

Injection flaws are very common in applications today. These flaws occur because user controlled input is interpreted as actual commands or parameters by the application. Injection attacks depend on what technologies are being used and how exactly the input is interpreted by these technologies. Some common examples include: SQL Injection: This occurs when user controlled … Read more

PenTest: Burp Suite

Burp Suite is a framework written in Java that aims to provide a one-stop-shop for web application penetration testing. Burp Suite is also very commonly used when assessing mobile applications, as the same features which make it so attractive for web app testing translate almost perfectly into testing the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) powering most mobile apps. … Read more

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