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Apr 26, 2022

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What is XSS

OffSec’s Jeremy Miller helps cybersecurity professionals explain hacking to laypeople using the Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

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IRQLs Close Encounters of the Rootkit Kind

Content developer Matteo Malvica walks us through IRQLs and how hardware interrupts can be abused.

Apr 11, 2022

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Introduction to Game Hacking

Explore our guided introduction to game hacking. Learn how data in memory can be manipulated to achieve results that are outside the normal program design.

Feb 23, 2022

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Microsoft OneDrive for macOS Local Privilege Escalation

Security researchers at Offensive Security discovered a vulnerability in the XPC service of Microsoft OneDrive. Here’s how it works and how to secure it.

Jan 31, 2022

9 min read

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Pythonizing Nmap

Tristram (aka gh0x0st) shares with us some tips for using python to automate nmap and other parts of your penetration testing process.

Nov 9, 2021

45 min read

PowerShell Obfuscation

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PowerShell Obfuscation

In this article, community moderator Tristram (gh0x0st) shares with us an approach to scripting payload obfuscation via PowerShell in order to avoid AV and AMSI detection.

Aug 23, 2021

20 min read

How we Teach Hacking

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Learning how to hack has a long feedback loop.

How do we learn hacking? What is OffSec’s teaching philosophy? We answer these questions and many more in our How We Teach Hacking webinar.

Aug 11, 2021

3 min read

Microsoft XFG

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eXtended Flow Guard Under The Microscope

Microsoft seems to be continuously expanding and evolving its set of security mitigations designed and implemented for Windows 10. In this blog post, we’ll examine an upcoming security feature called eXtended Flow Guard (XFG).

May 18, 2021

8 min read

MACOS LOCAL PRIVILEGE ESCALATION VIA CFPREFSD

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CVE-2021-1815 – macOS local privilege escalation via Preferences

Apple fixed three vulnerabilities in macOS 11.3’s Preferences. Here we present our writeup about how we identified one of the issues, and how we exploited it.

May 6, 2021

6 min read

Intel CET In Action

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Intel CET In Action

In this article, we’ll examine how effective CET is at mitigating real-world exploits that make use of ROP or stack based buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

Apr 29, 2021

9 min read

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Microsoft Teams for macOS Local Privilege Escalation

Security researchers at Offensive Security discovered a vulnerability in the XPC service of Microsoft Teams. Here’s how it works and how to secure it.

Nov 17, 2020

13 min read

TJNULL’S GUIDE TO BUILDING A HOME LAB

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How to Build a Cybersecurity Homelab

Build your own home lab with this extensive guide from TJnull. He covers the why and how, offers points of consideration, and shares his top resources.

Sep 23, 2020

19 min read

AMFI Syscall

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AMFI syscall

Csaba Fitzl covers the `dyld` restriction decision process in macOS and a previously undiscussed or undocumented AMFI (AppleMobileFileIntegrity) system call.

Jun 9, 2020

10 min read

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