HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS) is a type of attack that is gaining more and more attention in recent years. Its rise is fueled by the high prevalence of Cloud-based applications […]
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XXE Attacks Explained
Out of the many attacks that threaten web applications today, XXE remains the one that is talked about the least. Although it gets far less attention than XSS or SQL […]
Chapter 11 – Schedule Tasks
We have learned a lot since we started this tutorial. We are starting to gain more confidence in operating a Linux system. However, so far, we have been limited to […]
CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) Explained
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF or XSRF), also called Client-Side Request Forgery, is a type of attack that targets web applications. It allows an attacker to induce users into accessing and […]
Chapter 10 – Vim
After having spent time learning the most important commands that we need to perform essential tasks on Linux, you should realize by now that using the command line interface on […]
A Quick Guide To Regular Expressions
Regular expressions are present in almost all programming languages (Python, PHP, Javascript…), as well as in Linux commands (grep, sed…) and in many other high-level languages and applications. So, why […]
Chapter 9 – Advanced Data Processing
Processing data on Linux is really simple. Many commands are available for all kinds of text-processing functions. We’ve seen some of these commands in the previous chapter, but their number […]
Introduction to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
This article presents a great introduction for anyone trying to learn about Cross-Site Scripting (or XSS). You don’t need to be an expert to follow along. However, you do need […]
Chapter 8 – Extract and Process Data
In this chapter, we are going to learn how to extract and process data from a file on Linux. To test the examples given in this chapter, I will create […]
Chapter 7 – Piping and Redirection
Before we start, don’t be misled by the title of this chapter. I am not going to teach you about plumbing here. We are going to cover piping and redirection […]