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The Dangers of Googling Phone Numbers, an Attack on a Security Platform, and Typo Squatting on US Military Domains

Hacker And The Fed

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How to Read an Encrypted Password File

The server turned out to be free BSD. And I think at that point, free BSD has had created the kind of segmentation of an original password file, which is et cetera slash password. And then it would also have the encrypted password stored and etcetera slash master that password. But since the web server was not running as root and did not have super privileges or escalated privileges, then I could not read that file. So we get execute commands and we could refile from the file system. Okay. Cool. Now, any of the listeners now that do pen testing today, 2023 or red teaming in 2023, they're probably thinking Hector,

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