This is a short story that describes an alternative way of breaking out of the Windows Out-of-Box-Experience (OOBE) and gaining access to the command line of Windows with the privileges of the user defaultuser0 who is part of the local Administrators group.
What is OOBE? To get everyone on board, I would like to briefly describe what OOBE is, and when these screens appear to the user.
The Windows Out-of-Box-Experience is a series of screens that the user is presented when Windows is initially started after its installation. … »
This blogpost aims to explain some of the inner workings of the “uncomplicated firewall” (ufw) that is available for Ubuntu installations since 8.04 LTS and for Debian installations since 10.
Before going into detail, ufw is not a firewall but a frontend for iptables. Iptables is a frontend for the netfilter kernel module that is performing packet filtering within the Linux kernel. Therefore all actions that are performed via ufw can be directly queried using the iptables command. … »
How to execute operating system commands by leveraging legitimate functions of Mozilla Firefox.
Software environments in which users should only be able to perform a limited amount of tasks often use Kiosk applications to reduce the opportunities of a user to interact with the system. In many environments, only a few pre-defined applications are published to the user, like web browsers or POS software, depending on what the user needs to do. … »