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Critical Vulnerability Alert in Samba – CVE-2021-44142

Demonstration of remote root via Log4Shell and PwnKit attack chain
CovertSwarm demonstrating a full remote 'root' attack chain - enabled by Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) + PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) Over the past months…

Critical 0-day vulnerability in Polkit pkexec component

CovertSwarm appoints Luke Potter as Chief Operating Officer
CovertSwarm is modernising the penetration testing, red teaming, and bug bounty industries with its challenger ‘Constant Cyber Attack’ service offering…

What is an Application-level Attack?
Application-level attacks are those attacks that exploit weaknesses with a program itself rather than its underlying infrastructure.

What is Fingerprinting in Ethical Hacking?
Fingerprinting (also known as footprinting) is the process of enumerating a target online presence, often the first step when planning…

Log4Shell RCE: Critical Zero Day Security Vulnerability
The vulnerability is within the Java library Apache log4j v2 and has been classified with a CVSSv3 base score of…

Password Policy Best Practices 2022
Your password is the gateway to your account. Once inside, a hacker can access a wealth of personal or company…

Video: An Ethical Hacker’s View on your Security (London CTOs)