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Blog October 3, 2023
A Comparison Between the Real User ID and the Effective User ID is not Enough to Prevent Privilege Escalation
In Unix-like systems, processes have a real and effective user ID determining their access permissions. While usually identical, they can differ in situations like when the setuid bit is activated in executables.
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Blog May 30, 2012
Cookie Stealing By Router Pharming (2Wire)
Multiple stage exploit used to obtain cookies of many domains by exploiting several vulnerabilities on 2Wire routers.
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Blog August 29, 2011
Bypassing Web Application Firewalls with SQLMap Tamper Scripts
An introduction to SQLMap's new tamper scripts and how they can be used to bypass Web Application Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems.