Hacked & Secured: Pentest Exploits & Mitigations

One misbound identity. One exposed internal path. Two routes to total compromise.
In this season finale of Hacked & Secured: Pentest Exploits & Mitigations, we break down two real-world findings that show how small trust assumptions can unravel entire systems:
nOAuth (SSO account misbinding) — Multi-tenant SSO auto-linked accounts by email instead of a stable subject/issuer identifier. With a crafted identity on a controlled domain, an attacker could land a valid session as another user. 
From wall socket to Domain Admin — No NAC on the switch enabled quiet network access, followed by username harvesting and a light password spray to a low-priv account. From there: AD enumeration, weak service credentials, and abuse of certificate services to escalate to Domain Admin.
What you’ll learn: how identity claims should be bound in modern SSO, how to harden join and mapping flows, and a practical checklist to shut down common internal escalation paths (NAC, credential hygiene, service principals, AD CS, and monitoring).
Chapters:
00:00 - INTRO
01:27 - FINDING #1 - nOAuth: the email you shouldn’t have trusted
07:22 - FINDING #2 - From one wall socket to Domain Admin
13:43 - OUTRO

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A few microseconds. One silent browser session. That’s all it took for attackers to break into systems without tripping a single alert.
In this episode of Hacked & Secured: Pentest Exploits & Mitigations, we explore two subtle but devastating flaws:
🔹 Timing Attacks for Token Leaks – By measuring microsecond delays, attackers were able to recover secrets, without seeing them in responses.
🔹 OAuth Hijack via Mobile App Flows – A crafted app abused in-app browser sessions and custom URL schemes to silently steal valid login tokens from users on iOS.
These aren’t theoretical bugs—they were found in the wild and affect real apps. If you build or test auth systems, this episode is for you.
Chapters:
00:00 - INTRO
01:11 - FINDING #1 - Timing Leaks That Speak Volumes
06:56 - FINDING #2 - Hijacking Mobile OAuth with One Silent Redirect
13:06 - OUTRO

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One flawed password reset. One shared session token. One dangerous object.
In Episode 11 of Hacked & Secured: Pentest Exploits & Mitigations, we break down three real-world vulnerabilities where trust between systems and users broke down—with serious consequences.
Account Takeover via Forgot Password – A predictable ID and exposed tokens let attackers reset passwords without access to email.
Session Hijack in OTP Login – A logic flaw in how login tokens were handled allowed full account access with just a user ID.
Remote Code Execution via Java Deserialization – A community-contributed finding where an exposed service deserialized untrusted input, leading to code execution.
These aren’t complex chains. They’re common mistakes with big impact—and important lessons for developers, security teams, and testers.
Chapters:
00:00 - INTRO
00:59 - FINDING #1 - Account Takeover via Forgot Password
06:26 - FINDING #2 - Shared Session Token in SMS Login Flow
10:39 - FINDING #3 - Java Deserialisation to Remote Code Execution
16:13 - OUTRO

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One cookie set on a subdomain triggered XSS and stole session tokens. One fake image upload gave the attacker a reverse shell.
This episode breaks down two powerful exploits—a cookie-based XSS that bypassed frontend protections, and an RCE through Ghostscript triggered by a disguised PostScript file.
Learn how subtle misconfigurations turned everyday features into full account and server compromise.
Chapters:
00:00 - INTRO
01:08 - FINDING #1 - Cookie-Controlled XSS
12:19 - FINDING #2 - Image Upload to RCE via Ghostscript
19:03 - OUTRO
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One markdown link copied server files. One poisoned log triggered remote code execution. One LFI crashed the entire server.
In this episode, we unpack three real-world exploits—directory traversal and local file inclusion flaws that went far beyond file reads. From silent data leaks to full server compromise, these attacks all started with a single trusted path.
Chapters:
00:00 - INTRO
01:07 - FINDING #1 - Server File Theft with Directory Traversal
09:23 - FINDING #2 - From File Inclusion to RCE via Log Poisoning
16:20 - FINDING #3 - LFI to Server Crash
24:09 - OUTRO
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