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Lessons on Burnout: How to Protect Yourself & Your Team

November 12, 2020
Est Read Time: 4 min
Burnout can have 4 to 12 stages. According to Help Guide, there are even red flags that one can look out for. These red...
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A Pentester’s Guide to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

October 30, 2020
Est Read Time: 8 min
Examine a common security vulnerability, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
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Pentester Spotlight: Nikhil Srivastava

October 28, 2020
Est Read Time: 6 min
Nikhil Srivastava has been a top-performing pentester on the Cobalt platform for the past five years. He is an active...
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The Cobalt Core: A pentester community built on diversity, collaboration, and learning

October 21, 2020
Est Read Time: 3 min
The Cobalt Core is our highly-experienced, geographically-diverse community of pentesters. The community consists of...
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A Pentester’s Guide to HTTP Request Smuggling

October 15, 2020
Est Read Time: 9 min
What is HTTP Request Smuggling? HTTP request smuggling is an attack technique that is conducted by interfering with the...
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Pentester Spotlight: Özgür Alp

September 28, 2020
Est Read Time: 5 min
Özgür Alp is an offensive cybersecurity specialist, lecturer, and instructor with over 7 years of experience as both a...
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Pentest Workflow — Leveraging Community-Powered Tools

April 14, 2020
Est Read Time: 3 min
As a pentester, I like to look for ways to leverage automation so I can focus my efforts on bugs that are hard to...
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Anatomy of Authentication Tests

March 5, 2020
Est Read Time: 4 min
Introduction Authentication, as OWASP states, is the process of verifying that an individual, entity, or website is who...
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The Anatomy of Deserialization Attacks

January 23, 2020
Est Read Time: 7 min
What is Deserialization? Serialization is the process of turning some object into a data format that can be restored...
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