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  • Cisco Releases Patch for CVE-2025-20188 - 10.0 CVSS
    Cisco Releases Patch for CVE-2025-20188 – 10.0 CVSS
    Critical Alert – Patch Immediately. Cisco Releases Patch for CVE-2025-20188 – 10.0 CVSS. This vulnerability affects Cisco Catalyst 9800 wireless controllers.
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  • Cool Tools Series: CeWL
    Cool Tools Series: CeWL for Penetration Testing
    Lead Penetration Tester Jason Taylor discusses how the CeWL Custom Word List generator can improve hashcat results for penetration testing.
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  • AD Series: Using Evil-WinRM to Get NTDS Manually
    AD Series: Using Evil-WinRM to Get NTDS Manually in Penetration Tests
    Principal Penetration Tester Andrew Trexler’s Active Directory series is back, showing how to use Evil-WinRM to copy NTDS.dit manually in penetration tests.
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  • Password Series: 8 Practical First Steps to Crack Difficult Passwords
    Password Series: 8 Practical First Steps to Crack Difficult Passwords in Penetration Tests
    From rulesets & hardware to wordlists and mask attacks, Lead Penetration Tester Ryan Chaplin shows how to crack difficult password hashes in penetration tests.
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  • Password Series: Defeating Emerging Password Security Trends with Psudohash
    Password Series: Defeating Emerging Password Security Trends with Psudohash for Penetration Testing
    Lead Pentester Ryan Chaplin discusses emerging improvements in password security and how Psudohash can help bypass them on penetration tests.
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  • Cool Tools Series: MSFvenom
    Cool Tools Series: How MSFvenom Powers Penetration Testing
    Nathan Anderson intros MSFvenom, a Metasploit tool that generates & encodes payloads to obtain reverse shells & gain network access for penetration testing.
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