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Reflected XSS Exploitation in DVWA : A Beginners' Guide

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Welcome back to D Guides.I am Sadeepa Gayashan and I am the newly joined contributor of D Guides.I will share my knowledge on cyber security through Cyber Guides of this blog.Today I am going to share with you how steal session cookies.Most web applications maintain a user session to identify the user across multiple HTTP requests. Sessions are identified by session cookie.After a successful login server will send you a session cookie by the Set-Cookie   header.We can steal the session cookie by calling document.cookie . For demo purposes, we will use the DVWA Application. First, we need to run DVWA as a server in localhost or in VirtualBox in our web browser.Now login with Username: admin, Password: password.  this is the interface of the web application.Once logged in, we want to navigate to the DVWA Security tab, select the security level in the drop-down box, and hit Submit 1. Set security low Then we need t...

What Happened At Apple Launch Event 2019?

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Welcome back to D Guides. I decided to educate you about new releases and updates of mobile phone manufacturing giant 'Apple' since yesterday they held their launch event for the year 2019. If you are a regular visitor of my blog you can remember that I have written a post about the event took place in 2018 as well. If you have not read it, read it by the link given below. https://dwguides.blogspot.com/2018/09/what-happened-in-apple-event-2018.html Enough beating around the bush. Let's go straight into serious business. What exactly happened in the event? If you are a die-hard fan of Apple products as some of my friends ; ) you have definitely watched the whole event live. If you want to watch the event please visit the official youtube channel of Apple. The  event took place on 10th September 2019 at Steve Jobs Theater. I started writing this post right before they start the live streaming the event. Apple Arcade They first introduced the new Apple...

Getting Started With Electron : A Beginners' Guide

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Welcome back, folks. After several hectic months, I found some time to write a blog post. I have to apologize for not updating my blog for a long time. Today I am going to write the first post of my new section 'Programming Guides'.This post is about 'Electron' and after reading this you can start building cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. I will cover the beginners' guide in the following steps. Introduction to Electron The architecture of Electron Applications Setting up the environment Future plans  Electron JS first released in January 2013 and it was initially known as Atom Shell. The name Electron was given in April 2015. Electron is an open-source framework developed and maintained by GitHub which can be used to build cross-platform desktop application using web technologies. You may wonder after reading my next sentence. Notable software we use in our day to day lives such as Atom, GitHub Desktop, Visual Studio Code...