The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a companion feature released by Microsoft in 2016 to run a Linux image in a near-native environment on Windows, allowing administrators to useRead More →
Cybersecurity specialists report the detection of a critical vulnerability in Fail2ban, an application written in Python for the prevention of intrusions in a given system. According to the report, thisRead More →
Experts report that the newly reported IP address validation vulnerability also impacts the IP address of the standard Python library. The flaw, tracked as CVE2021-29921, resides in the Python 3.xRead More →
Introduction Have you ever imagine running python code on Windows without installing python. There are always situations where during penetration testing you get into a device under test, which doesRead More →
Specialists from a pentesting course company reported the finding of a vulnerability in Python, the popular programming language. According to the report, exploiting this flaw would allow the deployment ofRead More →
Members of a hacking course discovered that Urllib3, a popular Python HTTP client, could be exposed to the exploitation of a recently discovered denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. It isRead More →
Securely-developed apps may be at risk due to security issues in popular interpreted programming languages. Even software that has been built with secure development procedures may still be vulnerable toRead More →
This gets interesting when you find your way into a mail server, says dev who found it. Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Java and Python have a bugRead More →
In writing the most recent Hack This (“Scrape the Web with Beautiful Soup”) I again found myself trapped between the competing causes of blog-brevity and making sure everything is totallyRead More →
Part of the point in presenting small, hack-minded tutorials a la “Edit an Image in Python” or “Send an Email from Python” is that some subset of readers who actuallyRead More →
