Ruby

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I started out my professional career as a software developer then became a DevOps engineer. (Get it? It’s a joke.) The irony is that DevOps is not an engineering discipline at all, ...

I recently needed to check a NTP Reserved Mode Denial of Service vulnerability CVE-2009-3563, but without causing the DoS condition on the production server.  Using Metasploit’s auxillary module auxiliary/dos/ntp/ntpd_reserved_dos was not an option ...

Sqlite is the ubiquitous database for mobile applications on iPad, iPhone and Android. It is also used by certain internet browsers, web application frameworks and software products for their local storage needs ...

BigIP cookie contains internal network IP and port information in encoded format. When decoded, these cookies can help create an internal network map with potential web server IPs and their ports. F5 ...

A while back I came across a web application that implemented captcha to prevent automated form entries. The captcha was weak and could be easily solved. Below I summarize the steps followed ...

Sometimes when you're testing it's good to be able to quickly get a feel for where to focus your attention or to get an overview of all the ports you've got open, ...

In this post, we will write our bare bones Ruby based SSL cipher enumerator to enumerate SSL cipher suites supported by a webserver. Without further delay, lets get started.Basics:The first step of ...