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  • Copy Fail - Local Linux Privilege Escalation in 4 lines

    Copy Fail – Local Linux Privilege Escalation in 4 lines

    By Jason Taylor CVE-2026-31431, dubbed Copy Fail, allows privilege escalation to root on Linux distros missing the latest kernel patches. Learn what to do in this blog. May 8, 2026
  • Cool Tools Series: SCP

    Cool Tools Series: SCP

    By Nathan Anderson Raxis Lead Penetration Tester Nathan Anderson continues our Cool Tool Series with SCP for data exfiltration on internal network pentests and red teams. April 21, 2026
  • Two Critical Telnet Flaws in 2026 Allow Unauthenticated Root Access

    Two Critical Telnet Flaws in 2026 Allow Unauthenticated Root Access

    By Ryan Chaplin Lead Penetration Ryan Chaplin explains how to protect your network against CVE-2026-24061 and CVE-2026-32746, two critical Telnet flaws released this year. April 10, 2026
  • Cool Tools Series: Reptyr

    Cool Tools Series: Reptyr

    By Jason Taylor Jason Taylor brings highlights reptyr in our Cool Tools series, showing how to take a long-running process, like an Nmap scan, and move it to a new screen. April 7, 2026
  • Five Things to Always Do After Getting Domain Admin

    Five Things to Always Do After Getting Domain Admin

    By Andrew Trexler So you got DA on your red team or internal network penetration test. Here are the five things that Principal Penetration Tester Andrew Trexler does next. March 24, 2026
  • Data Theft Exploit: DNS Exfiltration Attack

    Data Theft Exploit Part 2: DNS Exfiltration Attack

    By Jason Taylor Raxis’ Jason Taylor is back with a detailed tutorial on performing both manual and automated DNS exfiltration attacks for pentesting. January 13, 2026