Wildcards Understanding and Using for Hacking
Wildcards, I would like to highlight the use of Wildcards, because they are incredibly important, especially for “hacking-related and some programming” stuff. In this article I will cover one interesting old-school Unix hacking technique, that will still work nowadays in 2020.
In real-world attacks, arbitrary shell options and or arguments could be hidden among regular files, and not so easily spotted by the administrator. Same in case of cron jobs, shell scripts or web applications that calls shell commands.











