Ally Petitt

Today, I’ll be performing a teardown of the AC1200 Dual Band Wi-fi Router vM32A3_V1410_240222 and obtaining a UART shell.

Introduction On November 19th, 2024, Qualys publicly disclosed five local privilege escalation vulnerabilities discovered in the needrestart binary that comes installed by default on Ubuntu Server installations.

Introduction Last week, I came across a piece of firmware that I was particularly curious about.

Author’s note: This article was initially published on Synack’s README.

Introduction Hello everyone and welcome to the first exclusive post on my new personal website!

Author: Ally Petitt Introduction Christmas break is notoriously refreshing for high schoolers like myself, however, unlike most high school students, I got to spend mine doing the most fascinating work in the world: security research.

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https://img.rasset.ie/001babea-1600.jpg Introduction Linux users often take pride in their ability to compile their own code.

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Introduction This article is a walkthrough that demonstrates the solution to a particular situation that computer owners may encounter when updating their system.

Introduction Firmware is a critical component of electronic devices.

objdump is a command line tool that can be used to gain insight into an executable binary.

Introduction This article will explain the tools and techniques used by web application penetration testers and security researchers to successfully bypass web application firewall (WAF) protections.

Computer Forensics for File Recovery https://edgy.app/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dataleakhackerGorodenkoff-970x546.jpg Introduction When a file is “deleted”, its contents aren’t typically erased from the storage device that it was stored on.

Introduction Hey everyone, this is a pretty quick article on LUKS drive encryption on Linux with the cryptsetup library.

Introduction Snort is an open source Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) that detects malicious network traffic by comparing the network packets to a set of rules, often created by Snort and the community.

Linux Penguin Introduction This article will begin with a high-level overview of the Ubuntu boot process and will continue to dig deeper into the role of SecureBoot in it when enabled.

Data Loss Prevention What is Data Loss Prevention?

Hi guys, I made a mistake.

Why Create a Cloud Server?

DNS Cache Poisoning on Home Lab Walkthrough https://www.okta.com/sites/default/files/media/image/2021-04/DNSPoisoning.png Overview In this article, I will be walking you through a common method of implementing DNS cache poisoning on a network.

Wait, you can do that?

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If your VPN log looks something like this: I’m here to help.

The Pen-200 is the prerequisite course for the OSCP exam.

An 18-year-old hacker gained admin access to Uber on September 15, 2022.

Introduction This article contains information that I have gathered as I’ve done research on incident response.

Foreword To avoid detection, it is best to use tools that are native to the victim’s computer.

How Does Antivirus Software Actually Work?

When first learning Kerberos, it can feel like you’re being chased by the three-headed dog.

Introduction Hey everyone!