Consider a website example.com that allows users to upload arbitrary JS files, and happily serves them back with a JS content type. Could an attacker use this to perform an XSS attack on example.com?
At first, I thought the answer was an obvious yes. But thinking about it, it is not obvious how ...
All ECC, including X25519/X448/P-256/P-384/P-521 will be broken by quantum computing YEARS before RSA-4096 due to the physical limitation of stabilizing qubits and may already be broken by government quantum systems.
Google, D-Wave, and other private companies have only recently achieved quant...
In Chapter #2 of The Loop, the following graph is being shown:
The blog post states the following as explanation for what it defines as "unwelcoming":
Unwelcoming community (10.6% of responses): A perception of an unwelcoming community was the top thing that people found most frustratin...
At the end, I didn't had to rebuild it manually. I used wireshark and its automatic decryption tools to build the master key and extract the desired information.
There are a few different reasons that people perceive Stack Overflow - and, to a lesser extent, the other Stack Exchange sites - as toxic. Let's get into a few of them.
The most major reason, in my opinion, is this one:
Barrier to participation and learning curve
There is a really steep l...
I want to pass my OSCP exam and I am learning with the material I got. I watched the videos and read the pdf but I have a question about buffer overflows.
In the example in the videos, the guy has access to the target system and can so control, debug and restart the application. So he can see wh...
We start by the assumption that the attacker only has access to the leaked password file: He is neither a user nor root on neither the client nor the server. He may be able to eavesdrop on traffic at a midpoint, but not on the actual end-points. Thereby we make the fairly ordinary assumption that...
