Linux privilege Escalation

This video is part of the Pop Pop Pop Another Server Drop series and it goes over some basic Linux privilege escalation techniques. A large amount of servers, especially web servers, are running on Linux machines because of the resiliency the OS brings. When doing the Wargames that I go over in the series, you will encounter some privilege escalation challenges and this video will give you a primer to do that. Enjoy

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