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Drew Kirkpatrick
Senior Security Consultant
Experience
Drew has 20 years of experience designing and building complex systems, including application security, network policy management, machine learning, and transit and aerospace systems. These days he works to improve Information Security by applying penetration testing and computer science to assess the security posture of TrustedSec clients. Before joining TrustedSec, he was a Security Researcher at NopSec and Secure Decisions as well as a Senior Computer Scientist for the U.S. Navy.
Education & Certifications
OSCP, GWAPT
M.S. Computer Science – Florida Institute of Technology
M.S. Computer Information Systems – Florida Institute of Technology
B.A. Psychology/Economics – St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Professional Affiliations
OWASP, TOOOL
Industry Contributions
Drew has developed and contributed to several open source projects, including OWASP Attack Surface Detector and various machine learning and penetration testing tool projects.
Passion for Security
Drew’s love for building complex systems led to the discovery that he found tremendous joy in breaking complex systems—in a good way.
Recent Blog Posts
Setting the ‘Referer’ Header Using JavaScript
Or, “I’m Sorry, You Said You’re from Where Again?” In a prior webinar on creating weaponized Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) payloads, I mentioned that XSS payloads (written in JavaScript) could not change the HTTP Referer header. Malicious requests made through an XSS payload will often have an unexpected Referer header that does not generally make sense...
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PentesterLab Pro Giveaway
We are excited to announce that we will be giving away 200 one-month subscriptions to PentesterLab Pro. During these challenging times, we hope that you will be able to use this learning resource to improve your web application testing skills. PentesterLab Pro is a leading industry tool designed to make learning web hacking easier. Using hands-on...
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Tricks for Weaponizing XSS
In this blog post, we will look at some simple JavaScript tricks for creating weaponized cross-site scripting (XSS) payloads. If less reading more videoing is your thing, watch this topic in webinar form here: https://www.trustedsec.com/events/webinar-popping-shells-instead-of-alert-boxes-weaponizing-xss-for-fun-and-profit/ Often, penetration testers use a simple alert(1) payload to demonstrate successful JavaScript execution when we identify an XSS vulnerability. While...
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Recent Webinars
Popping Shells Instead of Alert Boxes: Weaponizing XSS for Fun and Profit
This webinar was recorded on Wednesday, December 18, 2019. XSS? What’s the big deal? Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities are a longstanding issue that allow malicious actors to inject JavaScript into a web application. Penetration testers typically use a simple JavaScript...
Recent Podcasts
See the World They Said
April 20, 2021
