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This technical article provides a detailed overview of various techniques and tools that can be used to bypass firewalls, including examples and best practices for red teamers and pen testers.

Securing mobile devices requires layered controls, disciplined patching, and continuous monitoring to protect from evolving threats in a connected environment.

Learn how to write Python C extensions to speed up critical tasks, with practical examples for penetration testers and red team operators.

The 1990s revolutionized cryptography by democratizing advanced encryption techniques, establishing critical standards like Advanced encryption standard (AES) and SSL, and laying the foundation for modern digital security in an era of growing internet connectivity and privacy debates.

Advanced memory forensics equips red teams and pen testers with the skills to detect and analyze sophisticated code injection techniques in Linux, using tools like Volatility and GDB to uncover hidden malicious activities and defend against advanced threats.

Improve post-exploitation workflows by upgrading a non-interactive shell to a full TTY, enhancing control over a compromised system.

Discover the rich history and intricate details of Linux distributions, from their origins and growth to their crucial role in modern computing, all explored in this comprehensive guide for enthusiasts and newcomers alike.

Learn how to write concurrent and parallel programs in Rust, explore advanced concurrency techniques, and discover how Rust can be used in pen testing and red teaming scenarios. Compare Rust with other languages commonly used in the security field.

Master the art of heap exploitation with this comprehensive guide, diving into advanced techniques, real-world examples, and practical code snippets to elevate your red teaming and pen testing skills.

Mastering advanced physical security bypass techniques is essential for any red teamer, providing a significant edge in testing and enhancing an organization’s overall security posture through a blend of technical skills, social engineering, and creative problem-solving.

Explore the power of network segmentation and micro-segmentation in enhancing network security. Learn about the benefits, implementation strategies, and how they align with the Zero Trust model.

Dive into the transformative 1980s, where Object-Oriented Programming and the creation of C++ revolutionized computing, laying the foundations for modern software development and cybersecurity.

Explore the power of YARA rules in proactive cyber threat hunting with detailed examples, advanced techniques, and real-world case studies to stay ahead of cyber adversaries.

This article explores the use of JavaScript and Socket.io for building real-time applications, with a focus on techniques and examples relevant to penetration testing and red teaming, while highlighting the pros and cons of using JavaScript in these scenarios.

Explore Apple’s ambitious but flawed 1990s experiments—Copeland, OpenDoc, CyberDog, and more—and uncover the valuable lessons they offer for today’s tech innovators and cybersecurity experts.

Incident Response deep dive: mastering stages from preparation to lessons learned with expert techniques, SIEM, honeytokens, and real-world examples.

Exploring ’90s computing: the rise of OOP, web development’s infancy, OS battles, transformative IDEs, and intriguing tidbits from a pivotal tech decade.

Delve into advanced memory forensics: uncover hidden threats, decode in-memory artifacts, and master tools like Volatility. Elevate your threat hunting magic.

Explore the power of OSINT in Red Teaming. Dive into techniques like social network profiling, dorking, and domain recon to bolster your social engineering skills.

Explore serverless security best practices, from granular permissions to input validation, to stay ahead of threats in the evolving cloud landscape.

Explore advanced Python debugging: profile code with cProfile, measure time using timeit, identify memory leaks, and optimize scripts for red team ops.

Exploring Atari’s pivotal role in the home computing market: from its founding to dominating the video game industry and its lasting impact on cybersecurity.

Dive into dynamic malware analysis techniques, from ProcMon to Wireshark, to unravel malicious code behavior in real-time.

Explore dark web intel with TOR analysis, cryptocurrency tracking, PGP scrutiny, and learn to combat evolving cyber threats.

Securing IoT in smart cities and critical infrastructure is a paramount challenge, requiring deep understanding of threats, vulnerabilities, and robust defense strategies.

Mastering advanced Rails routing and its cybersecurity implications equips us to unearth potential vulnerabilities, enhancing web application security

Exploring the Nintendo Entertainment System’s history, technical innovations, cybersecurity implications, and trivia in the 1980s gaming revolution.

Explore advanced threat hunting techniques for detecting fileless malware, employing behavioral analysis, log review, network traffic analysis, and more

Purple Teaming combines offensive Red and defensive Blue team operations for collaborative, dynamic cybersecurity strategies

Explore vishing/smishing tactics, tools, real-world cases, and prevention strategies for red teamers and pen testers.

Dive into Python’s data science libraries like NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn & Scikit-Learn, exploring their use in penetration testing and hacking.

Exploring the rise of GUIs in the ’90s, this piece delves into their early history, impact on cybersecurity, technical aspects, and intriguing trivia.

Explore advanced memory forensics for malware detection, analysis techniques, and real-world case studies.

Explore CTI collection & analysis techniques, tools, and real-world examples to enhance red team & pen testing skills.

Explore SSRF vulnerabilities: identify, exploit, and defend against this powerful attack vector in web applications.

Explore Rust’s advanced memory management, lifetimes, borrowing, custom allocators, and techniques for red teamers/pen testers.

Explore the 1990s CD-ROM technology evolution, its impact on computing, cybersecurity, intriguing technical details, and trivia in this comprehensive article.

ROP is an advanced exploit technique, bypassing DEP & ASLR by chaining code snippets (gadgets) for arbitrary code execution without new executable code.

Explore cyber threat hunting techniques, best practices, and real-world examples to proactively detect, analyze, and mitigate emerging security threats.

Explore network protocol analysis using Wireshark & tcpdump for packet capture, filtering, dissection, and real-world pen testing scenarios.

This article delves into advanced JavaScript DOM manipulation techniques for red teams and pen testers, covering various methods of accessing, modifying, and traversing the DOM, along with real-world examples demonstrating their applications in hacking scenarios.

Explore the fascinating history and enduring legacy of the Commodore 64, a groundbreaking home computer that shaped the worlds of computing, gaming, and cybersecurity in the 1980s and continues to inspire today’s technology enthusiasts.

This article explores advanced static malware analysis techniques, including file format analysis, strings analysis, control flow graph reconstruction, disassembly and reverse engineering, signature-based detection, and indicators of compromise, providing practical examples and tool recommendations for professional hackers, pen testers, and red teamers.

Explore advanced physical security bypass techniques, including lock picking, key duplication, RFID exploitation, access control system bypass, and social engineering, for red teaming and pen testing.

This article delves into advanced cloud security, focusing on serverless security and misconfiguration, providing valuable insights and tools for securing serverless applications, addressing function-level, resource-level, and infrastructure-level misconfigurations, and offering real-world examples and tools to help red teams and pen testers enhance serverless security.

This article explores advanced object-oriented programming concepts in Python, such as decorators, inheritance, abstract base classes, composition, aggregation, and properties, along with practical code examples tailored for pen testers and red teamers to create robust and flexible software.

This article delves into the history and development of the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s, exploring its technical innovations, impact on the tech industry, and relevance to cybersecurity while sharing interesting trivia and anecdotes for a technical audience.

This article delves into malware obfuscation, discussing various techniques, tools, and best practices used by red teams and penetration testers, along with real-world examples and code samples, to create evasive and resilient malware that can bypass security measures and remain undetected.

In this article, we discussed the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO/IEC 27001, and CIS Controls frameworks, their five, fourteen, and twenty controls respectively, and how they can be used by red teams and pen testers to enhance their security posture and protect against cyber attacks.

This article provides a comprehensive overview of wireless security, including technical details of wireless networking, best practices for securing wireless networks, common attacks, social engineering tactics, wireless network penetration testing, regulatory compliance, and the future of wireless security.

This article covers the powerful metaprogramming techniques in Ruby, including method_missing, define_method, dynamically defining classes and modules, and executing code dynamically with eval, that allow writing code that writes code to make programs more flexible, dynamic, and powerful.

The article explores the history of open-source software and its impact on the computing industry, from the rise of Microsoft and proprietary software to the birth of Linux and the GNU Project, the emergence of open-source software, and the mainstreaming of open-source software, highlighting key players, developments, and anecdotes, while also discussing its relevance to cybersecurity and the need for community-driven development and collaboration.

This article explores the importance of TTP (tactics, techniques, and procedures) analysis in detecting and mitigating cyber threats, including its role in guiding investigations, assisting in attribution, and informing predictive analysis, using examples of TTP analysis in well-known attack campaigns.

This article explains Scenario-Based Testing (SBT) in detail, its benefits, tools and techniques used, and provides examples of how SBT can be used in Red Team Exercises to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in an organization’s security defenses.

This article provides an in-depth overview of advanced malware analysis techniques, including manual and automated disassembly, decompilers, debuggers, and dynamic binary instrumentation (DBI), with examples of tools and outputs provided for each technique.

This article is an introduction to the Lua programming language for pen testers and red team members, covering its basic concepts and syntax, examples of its use in network analysis, password cracking, and web scraping, and weighing its pros and cons compared to other languages.

This article is a comprehensive overview of the history and evolution of the x86 architecture, including its predecessors, competitors, and its significance to cybersecurity.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the vulnerabilities and best practices for securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) against cyber-attacks for an advanced audience of experienced security professionals, including sections on lack of network segmentation, weak authentication, outdated software and firmware, lack of monitoring and logging, vulnerable remote access, and SCADA hacking tools.

This article explores the concept of application layer firewalls, how they work, their importance in network security, and some tools used to test them.

This article explores a range of covert communication and exfiltration techniques for Red Team operations, including protocol-level channels, social media, and out-of-band exfiltration techniques.

This article provides an introduction to PowerShell scripting, including basic concepts and syntax, specific code examples for pen testing and red teaming tasks, and the language’s pros and cons compared to other programming languages in the field.

The history of Apple Computers is a story of innovation, transformation, and persistence, characterized by the development of iconic products and groundbreaking technologies, from the early days of personal computing to the present, where the company has become a global leader in technology, valued at over $2 trillion, with a diverse range of products and services that touch every aspect of modern life.

This article discusses best practices and techniques for effective Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) collection, analysis, and dissemination for red teams and pen testers.

This article explores advanced heap spraying techniques used by red teams and pen testers to exploit vulnerabilities in software applications, including non-ASLR and ASLR-based heap spraying, and Unicode heap spraying, with real-world examples and tools.

This article explores various open-source and commercial tools and techniques used in blue team exercises, threat hunting, and incident response, with a focus on providing technical details and examples for an advanced audience of experienced security professionals.

This article provides a comprehensive guide to the C++ programming language, covering its basic concepts and syntax, as well as its application in pen testing and red teaming, including code examples for a port scanner, password cracker, and web crawler, and discussing its pros and cons compared to other languages for these purposes.

This article provides a detailed history of IBM and the clone wars in the computing industry, including the birth of IBM, the rise of clones, the clone wars, the aftermath, and how it all relates to cybersecurity.

This article explores advanced memory forensics techniques for detecting malicious activity in memory, including process timelining, high-low level analysis, walking the VAD tree, and detecting rogue processes, kernel-level rootkits, DLL hijacking, process hollowing, and sophisticated persistence mechanisms.

This article explores the prevention techniques for Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks in web applications, providing real-world examples, and includes code samples in various web programming languages.

BloodHound is a powerful tool for analyzing Active Directory environments, helping red teamers and pen testers visualize complex relationships, identify security risks and attack paths, and develop effective mitigation strategies to strengthen an organization’s security posture.

This article provides an in-depth discussion of advanced red team exercises specifically focused on supply chain attacks, including reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploitation, and post-exploitation phases, with technical details and real-world examples.

This article discusses the basic concepts and syntax of the Kotlin programming language, as well as its applications in pen testing and red teaming, including code examples for a port scanner, password cracker, and web crawler, and compares its pros and cons to other languages used in the field.

The article covers the history of the dot-com bubble, from the early days of the internet to the rise of venture capital, the height of the dot-com era, the crash, and the aftermath, while also examining its impact on cybersecurity.

This article provides a detailed overview of IoT security best practices and common vulnerabilities for an advanced audience of experienced security professionals, covering topics such as secure communication protocols, firmware updates, strong passwords, network segmentation, and more.

This article provides advanced technical details on Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), including what they are, how they work, tools and techniques for testing them, and specific examples of open source and commercial IPS systems.

Mythic is a powerful, open-source post-exploitation framework that offers red teamers and pen testers an extensible and customizable platform with numerous modules, agents, and C2 profiles to enhance their engagements and achieve objectives in various target environments.

This article provides an overview of best practices for cloud security, including secure access to the cloud, encryption to protect data, keeping software up to date, monitoring cloud resources for security events, and using network security best practices, with specific technical examples for AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Explore C programming basics, pen testing and red teaming applications, write exploits and shellcode, and compare C to other languages for security pros.

This article provides a detailed history of email, including its origins in the early days of computing, the rise of the internet, the introduction of webmail and spam, and the impact of mobile and social technologies, as well as discussing alternative email systems and trivia about email.

This article introduces and explains exploit development techniques, best practices, and examples for a technical audience of red teams and pen testers.

This article discusses advanced social engineering techniques, spear phishing, and whaling for a technical audience, including OSINT, psychology of trust, and elements of effective and ineffective attacks.

SharpSocks is a powerful .NET-based proxy tool for red teaming and network penetration testing that enables encrypted communications, protocol obfuscation, and access to internal resources, providing professional hackers with stealth and persistence in their engagements.

This article explores the world of red team exercises, discussing various types of exercises, tools and techniques used, real-world examples, and the five phases of a typical red team exercise.

Explore Swift basics, syntax, and use cases for pen testing and red teaming. Learn how to create custom tools like brute force crackers and port scanners.

This article explores the evolution of video games across four phases of computer history, delving into interesting anecdotes and trivia, and highlighting the cybersecurity risks associated with gaming.

This article discusses advanced malware analysis techniques focusing on dynamic analysis and provides real-world examples and code samples for techniques such as memory analysis, network monitoring, and debugging.

This article explores techniques and best practices for physical security testing, including social engineering, physical bypass, lock picking, surveillance, and physical access control.

This article provides a comprehensive guide to using Covenant, a powerful command and control framework for red teaming and post-exploitation operations.

This article provides a comprehensive overview of hacking techniques and real-world examples for exploiting vulnerabilities in IoT devices, including code samples and tool recommendations.

This article delves into the Java programming language, covering basic concepts, syntax, and its practical applications in pen testing and red teaming, while also discussing its pros and cons for cybersecurity professionals.

This article provides an overview of the evolution of the internet from its inception to current and future trends, including key technological advancements and their impact on society.

This article provides an overview of the inner workings of ransomware, analyzes real-world examples, and provides techniques for preventing and mitigating ransomware attacks.

This comprehensive guide explores Nishang, a collection of PowerShell scripts designed for penetration testing and red teaming, covering PowerShell basics, Nishang modules, advanced techniques, real-world applications, and modern evasion methods.

This article explores the advanced web application attacks of CSRF and XXE, including real-world examples, traffic samples, and mitigation techniques for red teamers and pen testers. These vulnerabilities are often overlooked but are critical in enterprise applications.

Why is everyone rewriting their C2 in Go? Cross-compilation, static binaries, and speed. We dive into using Go for offensive operations.

We trace the evolution of graphics from the SGI workstations that made Jurassic Park to the NVIDIA GPUs that crack your passwords today.

To hide in memory, you must study memory. This guide flips the script on forensics, using Volatility to understand how Blue Teams hunt for your beacons.

Pretexting is more than just lying; it’s acting. This guide covers how to build a credible legend, handle resistance, and manipulate human trust for access.

Though legacy in name, Empire established the blueprint for modern C2. We explore the BC-Security fork, listeners, stagers, and how to operate a PowerShell-heavy campaign.

Forget volumetric DDoS. The real damage happens inside the perimeter. We explore IPv6 shadow networks, NAC bypasses, and VLAN hopping techniques for the modern Red Team.