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VMWare Workstation is a popular virtualization software that was recently made available for free personal use after VMWare was acquired by Broadcom. This is an excellent move by Broadcom, as it will help many users to utilize this software for free for personal use and learning purposes. I have been using VMWare Workstation on Linux for a while now and I have to say that it is a great piece of software. It is very easy to use, is extremely fast, and has a lot of features that make it a great choice for virtualization on Linux. ...

Setting up a virtual lab for Android App security assessments.

Learn how to set up a virtual webcam on Linux using your Android device’s cameras using scrcpy.

In pentesting assessments and CTFs we always need reverse shells to execute commands on target machine once we have exploited a system and have a command injection at some point in our engagement. For that we have an awesome project: revshells.com or reverse-shell-generator where we have a ton of reverse shell payloads listed. This blog post tries to explain their working. Note: I’ll be breaking down all of them, but not all at once. If you have any comments/feedback let me know in the comments section. ...

Photobomb is a fun box on Hackthebox where we initially get hardcoded credentials in a Javascript file, which we can use to authenticate with basic auth to access the image resizing tool, which has command injection leading to us getting a reverse shell. After getting initial access as user wizard, we see a cleanup.sh script which can be run as root. We then abuse the redirection operator > clobbering the /etc/passwd file to escalate our privileges by adding user wizard to group root.