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Installing Hashcat with AMD Radeon drivers on Ubuntu Linux

Summary

This post describes how I got the latest build of Hashcat working on a newly installed Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS.

History

My previous password cracking rig was a 2009 Mac Pro with an AMD Radeon RX580 and this proved a fast and reliable platform for several years until I upgraded the MacOS version to 10.15 (Catalina) after which hashcat started throwing runtime errors like:

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Book Review - Hacking APIs by Corey Ball

  • Title : Hacking APIs - Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces
  • Author : Corey Ball
  • Date : April 2022
  • ISBN-13: 9781718502444
  • Link: https://nostarch.com/hacking-apis

Hacking APIs

Our penetration testing engagements web applications increasingly involve URLs with /api/ in their path. Of course these can be tested just like any other URL but it became obvious that there are subtleties to testing APIs that required a new set of testing methods.

This book promises to provide a thorough grounding in API testing. I purchased this book for our pen test team bookshelf with the hope that it would fill in any knowledge gaps that our team may have.

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