A HOW TO GUIDE If you want a career in penetration testing but don’t know where to start, this e-book will take you through what you need to know, with plenty of advice and tips throughout. Introduction Let’s be honest. The cyber security industry is a mystery...
Password cracking is an essential skill for penetration testers. Whether it is being used to crack a hash you’ve got from using responder, gain a first foothold on a device, or attempting to compromise accounts for lateral movement through a network, it is an...
JSON Web Tokens – or JWTs – are a common method of providing authentication and authorisation to a web application. While they may seem complex, it is possible to look closely and break down the structure of these three-part tokens, to understand the different...
An A-Z of pentesting terms and abbreviations – Part 2 In this blog post, we continue our A-Z glossary of common pentesting abbreviations, acronyms and terms, from N-Z. Get ready for the likes of OSINT, RFI, YubiKeys and more. And don’t forget, you can catch up...
What is Cross-site scripting (XSS)? Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a web security vulnerability in which an attacker is able to inject malicious scripts into vulnerable sites and compromise the interaction between the user and the site. Cross-site scripting is what we...
The tech industry is synonymous with abbreviations, and cyber security is no different. TLAs (three letter abbreviations), acronyms, other abbreviations and unfamiliar names or terms are the norm. As a result, in this blog we have collated an A-Z glossary for the...
