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Hunt down vulnerabilities with the Metasploit pen-testing tool

Security Tools free

The veteran Metasploit is by no means obsolete and is still used as a typical workflow to find and analyze security vulnerabilities in Windows 10 and Linux systems.
Metasploit , Security , vulnerabilities
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Regular expression security

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Regular expressions are invaluable for checking user input, but a vulnerability could make them ripe for exploitation.
Linux , scripting , SQL , vulnerabilities
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PowerShell add-on security modules

Script Kiddies 4.0 free

Numerous PowerShell add-on modules provide security and attack functions for penetration tests and forensic analyses, to help admins search for vulnerabilities in their networks.
network , Powershell , vulnerabilities , Windows
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Figure 1: Wikipedia unnecessarily reveals whether or not a user exists. This allows a targeted brute-force attack.

Side Channel Attacks

Sometimes error messages or log entries are too verbose for their own good, disclosing valuable information to attackers.

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