Exploitation

Shocker Write Up Shocker is a HackTheBox challenge which revolves around the ShellShock vulnerability. This box was an easy box on HackTheBox, but I chose it because I was working on implementing the same vulnerability in a web-server project. Background Shellshock, also known as the Bash Bug, was a significant security vulnerability that was discovered in 2014. The vulnerability affected the Bash shell, a widely used command-line interface for Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including Linux....

I was watching someone play Cookie Clicker and when they reloaded the tab, they still had all their save data. I’d never played Cookie Clicker before so I assumed it must be using cookies to retain that data, but when I loaded a Cookie Clicker tab on my browser, Firefox reported no cookies beyond the consent to store advertising cookies (Thanks for blocking trackers, Firefox). [image lost] So, what does Cookie Clicker use to store data?...