The discovery of a new bug or the analysis of a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) can often feel like a ...
This week again, we publish a list of research worth reading! Make sure you check it out! ❤️ BACK TO SCHOOL ...
I woke up this morning and saw that yet another certification is now available. You can now be "XYZ" certified! The ...
In the field of application security, two crucial types of training often come up: secure coding training and security code review ...
This week again, we publish a list of research worth reading! Make sure you check it out! ❤️ PHRACK IS BACK ...
One of the recurring questions I get during my Web Security Code Review Training is how to keep notes when multiple ...
This week again, we publish a list of research worth reading! Make sure you check it out! ❤️ We wrote the ...
Bad code reviewers use grep... well, good code reviewers use grep, but they are good code reviewers! You are probably not ...
When running our Web Security Code Review Training, I use an analogy on the difference between "They are French" and "They ...
This week again, we publish a list of research worth reading! Make sure you check it out! 🛠️Gitxray: a security X-Ray ...
As a security engineer, and like many people in security, I prefer bulletproof solutions to patches that fix only half of ...
This week again, we publish a list of research worth reading! Not sure if it is the BlackHat/Defcon effect, but it ...
We are currently building our ORM Leak labs and found a quirk worth sharing. The goal of our labs is to ...
This week again, we publish a list of research worth reading! A lot of Java this week! 🔥 Let's Make & ...
When it comes to the security of programming languages, the conversation often revolves around memory safety and typing. These features, while ...
There’s been a lot of chatter about PHP being insecure, but as Luke Stephens points out in his article, "People who ...
This week again, we publish a list of research worth reading! 🔥 Unveiling TE.0 HTTP Request Smuggling This blog post provides ...
I think the hardest part for pentesters transitioning into security code review is going back to the low level of confidence ...
This week again, we publish a list of research worth reading! For the first time, we also make this content available ...
One effective way to accelerate your security code review or pentest is to understand what developers get for free! In this ...
In web hacking, scripting is a key skill that separates good hackers from great ones. If you follow top web hackers, ...
You wrote the perfect resume, the interview is going well! Now the classic “Do you have any questions for us?” is ...
When handling customer support for PentesterLab, we often get emails from people who can’t solve a challenge: “… I have been ...
In the world of hacking, the right tools can make all the difference. However, when you’re just starting out, it’s crucial ...
In every field, people eventually hit plateaux in their progression. Security code review is no different. In this article, we explore ...
Tell a bit more about yourself? My name is Ryan Montgomery, also known in the cybersecurity world as 0day. I’ve been ...
JSON Web Tokens (JWT) are widely used for authentication in modern applications. As their use increases, so does the importance of ...
In this blog post, we are going to cover a strategy to help you get a job as a pentester or ...
Too often (me included), savvy code reviewers recommend to get started into code review by “Just reading code” and that is ...
I recently found a small issue in some TLS clients. More precisely, it is more of a difference between what happens ...
After reading this blog post on a bug in Github and Unicode, I started playing more and more with Unicode (even ...
Every week, our twitter account @PentesterLab publishes a list of articles worth-reading. This is the list of all the articles for ...
For a long time, I have been looking at solving a simple problem: be more efficient when scaling vulnerability research/bug hunting. ...
When building a Capture-The-Flag (for a conference), you need to have a good mix of very easy challenges and very hard ...
One of the common advice when trying to improve security at scale is to invest in QA. In this article, we ...
Since it’s something I’m really passionate about, I have decided to spend more time writing about application security at scale. Today ...
If you follow PentesterLab on Twitter, you probably saw the following tweet: Want to bypass WAF when exploiting CVE-2019-5418 ? curl ...
In this short article, I’m going to discuss a little bit on the exploitability of CVE-2019–5420. Ruby-on-Rails offers three different environments ...
Tell me a bit more about yourself? Current occupation? Aspirations? Twitter? I run my own security business called Shea Information Security ...
One of the questions I often get asked is whether or not I recommend going to university/engineering school/… or to get ...
Tell me a bit more about yourself? Current occupation? Aspirations? I’ve been playing with computers for a while now, until I ...
Tell me a bit more about yourself? Current occupation? Aspirations? Twitter? I’m Robert Kugler (@robertchrk), a 22 year-old penetration tester & ...
Tell me a bit more about yourself? Current occupation? Aspirations? I started using PentesterLab at around 2014. At that point of ...
The HackIM 2018/NullCon CTF just wrapped up. PentesterLab wrote 3 challenges for this CTF: “JWT V” (web4) worth 200 points “JWT ...
At PentesterLab, we have been helping thousands of people become pentesters or better pentesters: with PentesterLab PRO offering for students/individuals/enterprises with ...
Since you now have the perfect resume, you probably land some interviews! We decided to put together some advices on how ...
One of most common and potentially most painful task you will have to perform as a penetration tester is retesting. If ...
If you are familiar with PentesterLab, you may have looked into our Play XML Entities exercise. Recently, we decided to create ...
As a pentester, most clients will judge your work by the quality of your reports. Your resume is the best way ...
We put together some advice for new pentesters; we hope you will like them! Be precise One of the key issues ...
Scoping is one of the most important parts of a penetration testing engagement as it will determine if you will be ...
Ensuring that your team stays up-to-date is a hard problem. The security field is always evolving and new vulnerabilities and attacks ...
Keeping notes is one of the key aspects of penetration testing. In this article I’m going to share some information on ...
