Privilege Escalation: The Dirty Pipe Exploit to Escalate Privileges on Linux Systems

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Often, after successfully compromising a system, we are limited to the privilege’s of the compromised user. Regular users on systems usually have very limited privileges and can not access many of the resources or make changes to their systems and resources (databases, etc.). This is one of the many ways […]

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Network Basics for Hackers: Domain Name Service (DNS) and BIND. How it Works and How it Breaks

Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! The Domain Name System or DNS is one of those network protocols that makes the world go round. Without it, we would need to remember innumerable IP addresses just to navigate to our favorite web sites. Imagine trying to remember the IPv4 (32-bit) addresses of Facebook, Amazon and Hackers-Arise, […]

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