OverTheWire Krypton (Levels 0-9)

OverTheWire is an educational hacking site with different “war games” meant to teach different topics (for example, Natas teaches web security). Krypton is a short war game focused on introductory cryptography concepts. Level

How to Read a Robots.txt File

Most of us in security know robots.txt as a way to find files or directories that webmasters don’t want found by a search engine (and mistakenly think this means it’s

URL Encoding: A Security Primer

A few previous posts have mentioned URL-encoding in passing, and while that might be sufficient for those walkthroughs, this post covers URL encoding in a bit more depth. This includes what URL encoding