Game Hacking Part 1 – Equipping Your Loadout
Why Bother with Video Game Security? Video games are more than just entertainment. Gaming is a massive industry which by some accounts is estimated to be worth $256.97 billion by 2025. So in terms of sheer market value there are a lot of reasons (256 billion of them) that companies ... Read More
Kubernetes Security – A Useful Bash One-Liner
Whether you’re an administrator, pentester, devop engineer, programmer, or some other IT person, chances are that you’ve heard of Kubernetes (k8s). If you’re a penetration tester like myself you may sometimes find yourself in odd situations involving k8s. One such situation is getting or being given super admin to a ... Read More
It’s Okay, We’re All On the SameSite
With Google’s recent announcement that all cookies without a SameSite flag will be treated as having SameSite=Lax set by default in Chrome version 80, surely Cross-Site Request Forgery will be dead? Well, not quite… In this post I’m going to demonstrate a scenario in which the SameSite default won’t actually ... Read More
Game Console Hacking: Part 1 Lab Setup
This is the first in a series of blog posts on my journey through video game hacking and security. I plan to go through any aspect of this domain that piques my interest. Who knows what I’ll find! This particular post focuses on a simple networking lab setup that I ... Read More
A Container Hacker’s Guide to Living Off of the Land
Sometimes as a pentester you find yourself in tricky situations. Depending on the type of engagement, you might want to try to avoid making a lot of noise on the network if possible. This blog post is going to talk about two techniques to use to gather information on your ... Read More
Escaping the Whale: Things you probably shouldn’t do with Docker (Part 1)
In this blog post, I won’t spend too much time explaining what Docker is and is not. You can do some research on your own if you want to learn more about Docker and containerization technology. Instead, I will show you but one simple way to possibly open your system ... Read More