Posts Tagged mitm
Intercepting Passwords to Escalate Privileges on OS X
Posted by scriptjunkie in Uncategorized on September 17, 2016
A few weeks ago, a lot of attention was paid to Dropbox for “hacking” macs. Dropbox asked for your admin password when it was installed, then used that root access to enable privileges later even if you try to disable them. Despite the internet’s indignation and Dropbox’s impoliteness, Dropbox wasn’t exploiting any vulnerability or breaking […]
Shells, terminals, and sudo mitm
Posted by scriptjunkie in /dev/urandom on April 14, 2011
In many situations, you can find yourself with a simple shell, able to read and write stdin/stdout, but some command that you are using requires a full terminal. Example: you got a netcat shell on a server or you’re writing a web application with popen() calls, etc. If you need to execute a command through […]