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Top Ten Famous Hackers

January 5, 2021
Est Read Time: 10 min
*This article was refreshed in January 2023. The top hackers in the world come from different backgrounds and...
Thought Leadership

Exploring Valuable Pentester Traits: Top Cobalt Core Pentesters of 2020

December 30, 2020
Est Read Time: 3 min
Each year we survey the Cobalt Core, our pentester community, to hear who they enjoyed working with the most. We like...
Cobalt Core

A Pentester's Guide to Server Side Template Injection (SSTI)

December 24, 2020
Est Read Time: 3 min
Server-side template injection is a vulnerability where the attacker injects malicious input into a template to execute commands on the server-side.
Cobalt Core

Ask a Hacker: How Close is Cyberpunk 2077 to Reality?

December 21, 2020
Est Read Time: 7 min
The long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 arrived last week, and well, it hasn’t met expectations. To put it simply, the Internet...
Thought Leadership

A Pentester’s Guide to Command Injection

December 11, 2020
Est Read Time: 3 min
Get expert insights with a command injection tutorial with insights from pentesting experts at Cobalt, a Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) provider.
Cobalt Core

4 Security Lessons We Learned From 2020

December 7, 2020
Est Read Time: 4 min
Navigating 2020 has taught us many valuable lessons about handling uncertainty, improving communication, and continuing...
Thought Leadership

Changelog — November 2020

December 2, 2020
Est Read Time: 2 min
Last month the Cobalt’s Customer Experience (CX) team released the first blog in our Changelog series, which you can...
Product Innovation

Join the world’s most collaborative pentester community

November 30, 2020
Est Read Time: 3 min
What is the Cobalt Core? The Cobalt Core is our exclusive and private community of pentesters. They are the driving...
Cobalt Core

How to Execute an XML External Entity Injection (XXE)

November 26, 2020
Est Read Time: 4 min
What's XXE? An XML External Entity vulnerability is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input. This...
Cobalt Core

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