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1. /01

   How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS?

   A lot of people have server issues (“my server is down! or it’s slow!“), but they can’t tell if the problem is caused by DNS or not.

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2. /02

   Sitecore Experience Platform Pre-Auth RCE

   One of the missions at Assetnote is to secure the attack surfaces of enterprises around the world. In order to achieve that goal, their security research team cannot solely rely on the public disclosure of vulnerabilities.

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   API Tokens - A Tedious Survey

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4. /04

   Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator

   We’ll talk about the different parts of the terminal and how they interact, build a small program to read input from the shell and understand how it’s interpreted, discuss how to create a user interface in the terminal and finally see how we can use all of this to cause some mischief.

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5. /05

   Introducing CookieMonster: a tool for breaking stateless authentication

   When you log into a website, many web frameworks will issue you a cookie as proof that you have correctly authenticated. In the past, this token was just a random identifier that was assigned to the user in the application's database.

   Read : Introducing CookieMonster: a tool for breaking stateless authentication