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An exploit is a way of using a vulnerability to do something ordinarily impossible and/or forbidden.

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VPS compromised? Configured wrong?

I've been renting a VPS for half a year now (educational purposes) and I've been trying to learn as much as possible about keeping it secure. Recently, it was compromised and I suspect that it has been used as someone's proxy for ~a week before I…
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Why do browsers have so many possible exploits?

When browsing I am ocassionally given warnings about pages that host malware "that could damage my computer". I am seriously perplexed as to why, in 2010, browsers still have possible exploits and can be cracked. My question is "Why?". I'm assuming…
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Is vimperator safe?

I recently discovered Vimperator, which is just awesome. However, it concerns me that I can execute shell commands from the browser.. is this exploitable? I'd really hate to get "sudo rm -r /*"'d. I don't know too much about web browsers so I may be…
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Where can I learn various hacking techniques on the web?

I would like to try my hand at hacking -- that is, exploiting various website vulnerabilities. Not for any illegal purpose mind you, but so I can have a better understanding and appreciation of these exploits while writing my own web software. I…
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Need to figure out a way for RDP to call back to a local listener on a specified Ephemeral port though a Reverse SSH Tunnel

This relates to a previous question that was getting entirely too long and confusing due to my constant updates and edits and I was told to re ask it. So I am cleaning it up and asking a more direct question. First off this is a theoretical…
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Vulnerability / exploit MSDT (CVE-2022-30190) | Is renaming the registry key "ms-msdt" enough for the workaround?

Microsoft publishes a workaround for the msdt exploit (Guidance for CVE-2022-30190 Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Vulnerability) The suggested way is to delete the key Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-msdt after backing it up: To back up the…
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attack via executable line after plus sign in email address

I operate my own mail server and from time to time, people send spam or mysterious stuff to the root account. Recently, I got an empty mail, which was addressed…
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How to disable NX on Linux

I'm learning stack buffer overflow exploitation, and I later posted question Shellcode segmentation fault. about that executing shellcode from test program, or when injected to vulnerable program, causes segmentation violation. Now I found out that…
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Is the PS/2 connector really safer than USB?

Is it possible to exploit the PS/2 connector like the USB (for example with something like a Rubber Ducky)? In term of security reasons, theoretically, it should be possible to virtualize the PS/2 controller, and to reprogram it to write scripts…
Hashirama Senju
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Perl doesn't print 0x00

I wanted to experiment with the NOP SLED technique. I got the sled and the shellcode into an environment variable and I got its address. So i wanted to execute the vulnerable program and as an argument use this address repeated, the problem is that…
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Does the shellshock vulnerability leave any traces in log files?

I've patched my servers, but I'd also like to review my logs to see if there have been any compromises on them. Are there any consistent traces of exploits using this bug?
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Metasploitable_2 (Cannot issue apt-get to update or install any packages)?

I just setup Metasploitable 2 on VMware Fusion. I downloaded the image from here. I've booted it up and everything and can navigate around but would like to run a apt-get install update and possible be able to install additional packages through…
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How can I automatically pass the password to 'su'?

I am working on an exploit for a security course. The object is to obtain a root shell in a linux virtual machine. So far, I can write to /etc/passwd and change root's password to an arbitrary string. Now, I want to use su to get the root shell.…
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Is an unpatched Adobe Flash player still a security threat if I don't use a browser?

The Windows XP PC in question has the usual anti-virus and firewall precautions. It has the most recent Windows Updates and anti-virus updates installed. Flash is used only to play videos (located on the machine's hard disk) which are known to be…
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Unwanted & invalid Bluetooth connection request on iMac

I have the same issue as Martin did from Mar 6 '18 at 15:07 on this list. No working answer was provided for him. His link: [Unwanted macOS connection requests Also, adelejjeh asked on Oct 8 '16 at 15:36 MacBook keeps getting bluetooth pair requests…
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