An approach to discovering vulnerabilities
Beyond the vulnerabilities and challenges we’ve uncovered, our core interest lies in comprehending the approach to discovering vulnerabilities and giving examples of the techniques to find them.
Understanding what you are doing
The key to the process is understanding our actions and their implications. We will steer clear of the indiscriminate usage of automated tools. Their utility is acknowledged, but we left them outside the book’s scope. We focus on problem-solving by understanding how things work to discover vulnerabilities or overcome challenges. The key is to learn how to make something do something unexpected. The book intends to illustrate a mindset and a modus operandi by providing examples – or instances, as we can say in object-oriented languages – that apply this process.
Getting into the flow
The objective of the process is to comprehend a problem (e.g., how a specific software works, an...
