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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 November 29, 2016
New publication: Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine
We invite you to learn more about the latest publication from our team, "Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine".
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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.