Bug Bytes #218 – Advent of Cyber, RCEs and hacking poems

By travisintigriti

December 6, 2023

Bug Bytes is a weekly newsletter curated by members of the bug bounty community. The second series is curated by InsiderPhD. Every week, she keeps us up to date with a comprehensive list of write-ups, tools, tutorials and resources.

This issue covers the weeks from November 19th to December 3rd

Intigriti News

From my notebook

  1. TryHackMe! Advent of Cyber 2023 Kick-Off – Advent of Cyber is a free daily security challenge and walkthrough every day through December in collaboration with a ton of cyber security content creators, but we start off with John Hammond!

  2. Where are all the RCEs? RCE case study – Another indepth case study by Bug Bounty Reports Explained, he dives deep into RCEs, I love his data driven approach

  3. My Confusion Over Local File Inclusion – This write up is presented as a poem, it’s fun and creative

  4. Autonomous Hacking of PHP Web Applications at the Bytecode Level – Very interesting unique look at PHP by looking at the Bytecode

  5. Episode 403 – Does the government banning apps work? – No but it does prompt an interesting discussion around threat modelling!

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