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[ Pen Testing ] :: Step by Step :: Exploiting SETUID
Setting the user ID on an executable means it runs under that user’s permissions, not the perms of the user that runs the executable. It’s highly useful in system admin, but it’s wildly dangerous too, because every SETUID file is a vector for hacking. John Hammond (on YouTube) give an excellent example in the context …
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[ Hacker Night School ] :: Kali Linux Metapackages (All Tools or Subsets)
There are actually four subsets of tools you can install with Kali, depending on your needs, disk resources and download speeds. These packages have names like kali-linux-full and kali-linux-all (those sound the same, don’t they?). Fortunately the good people at Offensive Security have a guide to the various metapackages. For instance: kali-linux is the barebones, …
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[ Hacker Night School ] :: Adding the Kali Tools to Ubuntu
Kali is cool as hell, but taking it to work could get you fired, or at some of the places I support, get me arrested. It’s not really intended to be a daily-driver OS, though the 2020 update has moved it a long way in that direction. The biggest problem with carrying Kali around is …
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Using the GNU Debugger: John Hammond
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[ Hacker Night School ] :: Commando VM: a Windows Hacking “Distro”
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Finding and Using Browser-saved Passwords: Another video from Starry Sky
Yeah, we all do it, right? We let our browser store our passwords for all those sites we visit every day. It’s easy, it’s convenient, and it’s really easy to hack. Starry shows us how to reveal these passwords, swipe them and use them in another browser. Plus: he demos what you can do about …
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