Posts by Avi

Advices for Hiring a Penetration Tester

This article, for a change, is not intended for hackers but rather to the CISOs amongst you. As a Chief Information Security Officer you have to endure a longer fight and a very complex array of systems in your organization regardless of the ’8th layer of the OSI model’ – the human layer. This article is intended to provide some advices on some topics you should consider prior to...

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Congradulation HDE 40!

Congradulation HDE 40!

Congratulations to Hacking Defined Experts Class 40! After months of hard work you have earned becoming a part of a great tradition and joining the list of Hacking Defined Experts...

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The Journey Begins – HDE 41

The Journey Begins – HDE 41

HDE 41 class has started. We wish our students good luck at their new journey. Image by Matan Golan Photography & Graphics. To see more [Facebook Page] and her [Web Page].

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How to Conduct a Safe PenTest

How to Conduct a Safe PenTest

Introduction This article is intended to the PenTest Vendor as well as the PenTest receiver. The idea is to provide the reader with tips to follow in order to make sure that while you are conducting the pentest you do not harm the systems or their availability. These tips refer mostly to infrastructure or Web Application testing and not to protocol, application or other types of security tests....

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Sudopot – The Sudo Honeypot – Barak Tawily

After I took control of a Linux machine, we want to do a privilege escalation, and get a root. So i started thinking how i gonna do it and i found a way to get the root password by faking the sudo command. If i would fake the sudo command, and abuse it when the user would want to execute some application as sudo, it will ask him for a root password,then the root password will send to the...

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