Category Archives: user-enumeration

Pentesters: Is it common for bruteforce/ dictionary attacks, e.g. for SSH username enumeration, to be successful in the real-world pentests? [closed]

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I am learning and practicing on vulnerable-by-design machines (vulnhub, metasploitable etc.). I found that this machine is running OpenSSH 7.5, and I tried a few exploits of Username enumeration from ExploitDB, which all ask for a wordlist… Continue reading Pentesters: Is it common for bruteforce/ dictionary attacks, e.g. for SSH username enumeration, to be successful in the real-world pentests? [closed]→

FFUF command returns status code 400, regardless of mode option: clusterbomb, pitchfork, sniper

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I’m working on a lab on PortSwigger.com titled Username enumeration via different responses. While using ffuf to solve the lab, the output keeps returning a 400 status code.
So far this is what I’ve tried. Here is the request payload file,… Continue reading FFUF command returns status code 400, regardless of mode option: clusterbomb, pitchfork, sniper→

How do applications which are integrated using a javascript client side sdk, secure their data or disallow spam?

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Take an example of google maps. google maps provides a javascript client SDK, which means any web app running javascript can access the google maps sdk. You need to use an API_KEY so that google can rate limit your requests, and apply some… Continue reading How do applications which are integrated using a javascript client side sdk, secure their data or disallow spam?→