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Exploit Database now on Github

Exploit Database Hosted on GitHub

Offensive Security
We have recently completed some renovations on the Exploit Database backend systems and moved the EDB exploit repository to Github. This means that it's now easier than ever to copy, clone or fork the whole repository. The previous SVN CVS has been retired.
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Bug Bounty Insights

Bug Bounty Program Insights

Offensive Security
With the nature of our business, we at Offensive Security take our system security very seriously and we appreciate the benefits of having "the crowd" scrutinize our internet presence for bugs. For this reason, we recently started our own Bug Bounty Program, which provides incentives for researchers to inform us of…
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Offensive Security Penetration Test Report 2013

Penetration Test Report 2013

Offensive Security
We are proud to release a new, updated, sample penetration test report. This report accurately reflects the types of assessments we conduct for our clients. It incorporates changes we have made over the last two years based on customer feedback, as well as reflecting many of the types of attacks…
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AWE Vienna Course: Advanced Windows Exploitation

Advanced Windows Exploitation Vienna

Offensive Security
The Advanced Windows Exploitation (AWE) class in Vienna is coming up quick! This will be our first time teaching the class outside of the US and is the only public planned AWE this year outside of BlackHat Vegas. We have secured a beautiful facility on the 24th floor of the…
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BackTrack Reborn - Kali Linux

BackTrack Reborn – Kali Linux

Offensive Security
It’s been 7 years since we released our first version of BackTrack Linux, and the ride so far has been exhilarating. When the dev team started talking about BackTrack 6 (almost a year ago), each of us put on paper a few “wish list goals” that we each wanted implemented…
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Yahoo XSS 0-Day

Yahoo DOM XSS 0day – Not fixed yet!

Offensive Security
After discussing the recent Yahoo DOM XSS with Shahin from Abysssec.com, it was discovered that Yahoo's fix is not effective as one would hope. According to Yahoo, this issue was fixed at 6:20 PM EST, Jan 7th, 2013. With little modification to the original proof of concept code written by…
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CA ARCserve – CVE-2012-2971

CA ARCserve – CVE-2012-2971

Exploit Development, Offensive Security
On a recent penetration test, we encountered an installation of CA ARCserve Backup on one of the target systems that piqued our interest. Like most "good" enterprise applications, ARCserve has processes that are running as SYSTEM so naturally, we went straight to work looking for vulnerabilities.
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Advanced Windows Exploitation - Vienna, Austria

AWE is Going to Vienna, Austria

Offensive Security
Join us for a mind-blowing experience in a city known for its dynamic history and contemporary design, Vienna, Austria. For the first time in Europe we are holding our most intense live training course, Advanced Windows Exploitation (AWE). Be prepared to be challenged beyond your limits!
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Onity Door Unlocker Round Two

Onity Door Unlocker, Round Two.

Offensive Security
On one of our engagements, we figured an Onity Hotel door unlocker would be useful to us. Inspired by the James bond type setup we saw on the Spiderlabs blog post, we thought we'de try to build a small, simple and "TSA friendly" version of the Onity key unlocker. Pro…
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Stand-Alone EM4x RFID Harvester

Stand-Alone EM4x RFID Harvester

Offensive Security
Continuing off from our last RFID Cloning with Proxmark3 post, we wanted to build a small, portable, stand-alone EM4x RFID tag stealer. We needed an easy way of storing multiple tag IDs whilst "rubbing elbows" with company personnel. The proxmark3 seemed liked an overkill and not particularly fast at reading em4x…
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Cloning RFID Tags with Proxmark 3

Cloning RFID Tags with Proxmark 3

Offensive Security
Our Proxmark 3 (and antennae) finally arrived, and we thought we’d take it for a spin. It’s a great little device for physical pentests, allowing us to capture, replay and clone certain RFID tags. We started off by reading the contents of the Proxmark wiki, to understand (more or less)…
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Advanced Teensy Penetration Testing Payloads

Advanced Teensy Penetration Testing Payloads

Offensive Security
In one of our recent engagements, we had the opportunity to test the physical security of an organization. This assessment presented an excellent scenario for a USB HID attack, where an attacker would stealthily sneak into a server room, and connect a malicious USB device to a server with logged…
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Offsec BlackHat / Defcon Scavenger Hunt

Offsec BlackHat / Defcon Scavenger Hunt

Offensive Security
Are you in Vegas for BlackHat and Defcon ? Are you desperately looking for Offensive Security schwag ? We are giving out Metasploit books, BackTrack Challenge coins and large sized BackTrack Decals in this years BlackHat and Defcon conferences. So, what exactly does one need to do to get these…
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