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Automating Privileged Access Management:
A QA Engineer's Journey with Apache Guacamole By Carolina Steadham | QA Automation Engineer Introduction In today's cybersecurity landscape, privileged access management (PAM) is critical for protecting sensitive systems. I recently completed a comprehensive QA automation project focused on testing Apache Guacamole, a clientless remote desktop gateway that provides secure access to RDP, VNC, SSH, and Telnet connections through a web browser. This project showcases my experti
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Dec 15, 20253 min read


PortSwigger Exploiting APIs
1. Objective 2. Lab: Exploiting an API endpoint using documentation 3. Lab: Finding and exploiting an unused API endpoint 4. Lab: Exploiting a mass assignment vulnerability 5. Lab: Exploiting server-side parameter pollution in a query string 1. Objective: This document showcases a set of hands-on API security testing exercises completed through the PortSwigger Web Security Academy. The goal is to demonstrate practical skills in identifying, analyzing, exploiting and mitiga
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