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Articles Categorized as Networks

  • Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC): The Database

    Cool Tools: The NetExec (NXC) nxcdb Database

    Principal Pentester Scottie Cole continues his NetExec series with nxcdb, the database that automatically stores key info like hosts and creds while you hack.
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  • Rapid Web Host Recon with GoWitness

    Rapid Web Host Recon with GoWitness

    Enumerating webpages during an internal network pentest can be a large task, but GoWitness makes it easy to focus on high value webpages. Learn how it works.
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  • RoguePlanet: the Defender Zero-day that Survived Microsoft’s June Patch

    RoguePlanet: The Defender Zero-day that Survived Microsoft’s June Patch

    The new critical Microsoft Defender exploit, RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656), is confirmed active in the wild. Learn what it is and how to protect your network.
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  • Building Security Tools from Source to Bypass Endpoint Security

    Building Security Tools from Source to Bypass Endpoint Security

    Endpoint security detects many malicious files created with pentest tools, but pentesters can sometimes bypass this by rebuilding source code. Learn how here.
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  • Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE

    Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE

    BloodHound’s Community Edition has everything a penetration tester needs to enumerate relationships in a domain in order to gain more access, even Domain Admin.
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  • Defense in Depth Against Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation

    Defense in Depth Against Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation: A Practical Guide for Container Workloads

    With current local privilege escalation exploits like Copy Fail and Dirty Frag active in the wild, harden your defenses to halt attacks even before patching.
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