Here are some samples of blogs that we've written for our customers.
Learn about insecure design, and how to mitigate and remediate the vulnerability with real-world examples from security experts.
Learn how a cross site request forgery (CSRF) attack works, and how to detect and fix it with real-world examples from security experts.
My name is Jude, I’m a Security Analyst working with a Security Operations Center (SOC) team based in Australia. Outside of the usual SOC tasks (alert management, detection use cases), I work on specialist engagements around analyzing and understanding the external attack surface of companies using…
If you’ve been following these blogs, you’ll see that in the last article, we hacked together a basic attack surface monitoring platform using projectdiscovery tools. Using some of those basic building blocks, we’re going to build a basic historical DNS bot that will continuously enumerate domains and
Creating automation for hacking workflows is satisfying, but complex. In this article, hakluke creates basic recon and scanning automation with Trickest in less than 30 minutes, without writing any code or managing infrastructure!
Learn how to protect your applications against malicious code injection in JavaScript by exploiting a vulnerable web app as part of this Snyk Learn lesson.
Discover seven essential features of comprehensive External Attack Surface Management (EASM) platforms to fortify your digital defenses.
If you're into hacking, there's a good chance that at least one of ProjectDiscovery's tools has been added to your toolbox over the last couple of years. In all honesty, ProjectDiscovery's tools now make up the majority of my toolbox. For this reason, I get excited when they release something
WordPress powers about 60% of all websites on the internet, which is a staggering figure by any standard. Most of these WordPress instances lack many basic security features that can mean the difference between your website being hacked and… well, not hacked. In this article, we're going to run t
We recently published a bunch of posts about the top 5 APIs for Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Monitoring, Security Assessments and People Investigations, but in this post we’ve asked hakluke to write about OSINT/reconnaissance techniques that don’t leverage any APIs – best of all, they are…
Author: Luke (@hakluke) Stephens It always blows me away to think that WordPress runs 43% of all websites, including those without a content management system (CMS) 🤯. A single open source project is responsible for such a huge part of the internet! It's interesting to think about what might happ
It is critical that an organisation secures all of their assets along their entire software supply chain. For instance, in a DevOps lifecycle, as a developer, ensuring the security and stability of your code is crucial. One effective way to do this is by implementing automated security testing as part
Author: Luke Stephens Like any system, there are many ways to break into a WordPress installation, to name a few: Exploiting an out of date, vulnerable WordPress coreExploting vulnerable plugins or themesMan-in-the-middle attacksSocial engineering One of the most common ways to break into
Meet Hakluke. He's been nominated by the Detectify network as a Hacker Hero. He gives his tips for both Red and Blue teams.
Taking a little break from our regular OSINT-themed posts, we wanted to mix it up a little this time and talk about the power of OSINT through a little story, inspired by the amazing Stealing the Network volume of books.
Probably the most frequently asked question we get from SpiderFoot users is “with so many options available, what API keys should I get for my use case?” So, we asked hakluke and dccybersec to go on a mission and figure out the top 5 for the three most common SpiderFoot use cases:
My name is Jude, I’m a Security Analyst working with a Security Operations Center (SOC) team based in Australia. Outside of the usual SOC tasks (alert management, detection use cases), I work on specialist engagements
Learn what a logging vulnerability is, including logging too much or logging too little, and how to protect your organization.
Introduction In today's digital world, online security is more important than ever. As we rely increasingly on the internet, we must have a way to keep our communications private and secure. That's where SSL and TLS come in. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) are like secret
How to ensure an EASM tool provides a unified view of assets and infrastructure, enabling you to better navigate across disparate applications
Why security defenders need an EASM solution that combines policy control, vulnerability detection, and a crowdsource element going forward
Before busting out your arsenal of tools to rip a website apart, it can be really useful to just go back to basics and start by simply making a request to the website and analyzing its response. This applies to beginners as well; before learning all of the different tools and commands it’s…
Efficient, extensible, flexible, open source vulnerability scanning. Introduction Nuclei is a fast, efficient, and extensible vulnerability scanner. It can scan thousands of hosts in just a few minutes. The nuclei engine uses text-file templates to define the steps required to detect a vulnerability. It is an open-source tool that encourages
Insight into the methods that ethical hackers or even malicious attackers use to collect knowledge about an organization's assets.
Author: Devansh Bordia WordPress is the world's most popular content management platform, used on 45% of websites. This also makes it an attractive target for malicious attackers! In 2021, more than 1.5 million WordPress websites were compromised. In this article, we will cover many ways that
Learn how to protect your code from directory traversal in Java by exploiting a vulnerable web server.
Learn how DOM based XSS exploits work, and how to mitigate and remediate the vulnerability with step-by-step interactive tutorials from security experts.
Python is a pretty common choice for a lot of security specialists developing tooling due to its elegant syntax and a huge library of handy modules, packages, and libraries. Its interpreted nature means it’s flexible, has dynamic typing, easy to debug, and cross-platform.
An EASM program has become a necessity for security so your company's external assets don't fall into a state of vulnerability at some point.
Learn how to create SQL queries securely and avoid SQL injection attempts by malicious third parties.
In a lot of major cities in the world, pickpocketing and phone-snatch robberies are very common. Modern smartphones are expensive and easy to sell, and it makes them better targets than wallets that often contain no cash. There’s a reassuring catch to this malicious activity however
My name is Jude, I’m a Security Analyst working with a Security Operations Center (SOC) team based in Australia. Outside of the usual SOC tasks (alert management, detection use cases), I work on specialist engagements around analyzing and understanding the external attack surface of companies using…
Penetration testing is a great way to improve the security of your org. Much of the test’s value will be determined by your readiness. Here’s how to prepare.
Learn how an XXE attack works, and how to mitigate and fix the XXE vulnerability with real-world examples from security experts.
Learn how to protect your code from directory traversal in JavaScript by exploiting a vulnerable web server.
5 fundamental techniques that are used for bypassing WAFs with XSS payloads. An excellent resource for hackers, but also a warning to developers: a WAF is not enough to thwart exploitation of a web application.
One of the key trends in information security over the last decade has been the proliferation of the concept that monitoring an organization’s external assets is critical to their overall security posture. As a result, many organizations have sprung up with the sole purpose of providing…
Introduction Let's start with this: A DNS takeover is not the same as a subdomain takeover. Subdomain takeovers are old news. Hackers who caught onto them early made busloads of bounties by automating their detection and exploitation. They're still out there, but competition is fierce. Crafty hackers built bots that
One of the biggest cybersecurity risks to organisations today is not knowing what assets they have online, and the solution is having a good Attack Surface Management (ASM) program! It’s about more than just discovering assets.
Let’s explore four big questions that are solved by having a comprehensive External Attack Surface Management (EASM) program in place.
While WordPress core is well-tested and widely used, it allows plugins to be installed. Those plugins can be developed by, well, anyone! They enable many significant enhancements to the core platform but also have the potential to compromise the security of the entire website, even when they are not
Security is a crucial factor for both small and large enterprises. This has led to the evolution of DevOps into DevSecOps, which integrates security at an internal level. As we have discussed in previous blogs, it is important to implement security within your DevOps cycle to ensure that it becomes
In this blog we’ll discuss the basics of proxies, explain what Proxify is and how it can be used. You’ll learn how to: 1. Install and run Proxify 2. Customize proxy output files and addresses 3. Use DSL language to match and/or replace requests/responses from CLI.
Learn what ReDos is, why you should be aware of it, and how you can prevent and remediate the vulnerability in your organization
My name is Jude, I’m a Security Analyst working with a Security Operations Center (SOC) team based in Australia. Outside of the usual SOC tasks (alert management, detection use cases), I work on specialist engagements around analyzing and understanding the external attack surface of companies using…
A vulnerable and outdated component is a software component that is no longer supported by the developer, making it susceptible to security vulnerabilities.
Learn about the risks of exposing open redirects, how to exploit them and how to mitigate them.
Monitoring IT Infrastructure is difficult at the best of times, but it also ensures that you will get the most out of it. Read on to up your infrastructure monitoring game!
Learn how to protect your code from server-side request forgery attacks in JavaScript by exploiting a vulnerable web app as part of this Snyk Learn tutorial.
Author: Duncan Jepson 22% of compromised WordPress websites occurred via vulnerabilities in their installed plugins. This was a staggering statistic to me when I first heard it. Because of this, I decided to take a bit of a dive into researching WordPress plugins and their vulnerabilities
Learn about the risks of exposing open redirects, how to exploit them and how to mitigate them.
A tour of ProjectDiscovery's less-known public tools, and how to use them by @pry0cc Introduction For those unaware, ProjectDiscovery is a group of talented hackers and creators that have massively disrupted the offensive tooling industry by creating tooling that genuinely makes the lives of hackers easier. If you’re active
Learn how broken access control exploits work with a step-by-step tutorial, as well as how to mitigate and defend against them with access control settings.
Intel 471 empowers cybersecurity teams worldwide to be proactive with its TITAN platform and comprehensive coverage into the criminal underground.
Introduction In this article, we’re going to walk through hacking together a simple attack surface monitoring platform by using ProjectDiscovery tools, bash, and flask. We will also be using MongoDB & Redis for scan data and scan queues. This tool was written for the pure purpose of this article, if
If you’re one of the thousands of people getting started in Information Security, Cyber Security or Private Investigation, you have probably already heard the term “Open Source Intelligence” (OSINT). OSINT is data collected on an individual or organisation from publicly available sources to be used…
Sharing access to social media accounts is a common task for organisations - but it’s also a huge cybersecurity risk! In this article we discuss the secure way to share access, and the potential consequences if you don’t.
My name is Luke, but you might know me as @hakluke! I’m a cybersecurity professional, primarily focusing on application security and red teaming. Occasionally in my spare time I get to test my OSINT skills for something interesting, like phishing campaigns!
Intel 471 empowers cybersecurity teams worldwide to be proactive with its TITAN platform and comprehensive coverage into the criminal underground.
Attack Surface Management is now a necessity for organizations large and small. The problem is, how do you pick the right solution? Read this article to find out.
Introduction In this article we are going to build a fast one-shot recon script to collect the bulk of the information we need to serve as a starting point for our bug bounty testing. This blog post is complementary to the article on building an attack surface monitoring solution. Automation,
