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Security Fundamentals
Writeups and tutorials filed under Security Fundamentals.
6 writeups in this category
What Is Password Spraying?
// TL;DR Password spraying is a brute-force variant that flips the usual approach: instead of trying many passwords against one account, it tries one common password…
What Is User Enumeration?
// TL;DR User enumeration is a flaw that lets an attacker figure out which usernames, emails, or phone numbers are registered on a system — usually…
What Is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)?
// TL;DR Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most common web vulnerabilities on the internet. It lets an attacker get their own JavaScript running in…
What Is a Bug Bounty?
// TL;DR A bug bounty program is a deal: a company invites hackers to find security flaws in its systems and rewards them for reporting those…
101 Abbreviations Every Hacker Should Know
// TL;DR A grouped, corrected reference of the acronyms you’ll run into constantly in security and computing — from network and protocol terms to attack types,…
Introduction to Hacking
// TL;DR Hacking has two very different meanings depending on who’s using the word. To engineers it means solving a hard problem cleverly; to much of…