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LD_PRELOAD: Making a Backdoor by Hijacking accept()

Today I want to continue the series on using LD_PRELOAD. In previous posts, we covered how to ...

How to Create Custom Probes For NMAP Service/Version Detection

Overview NMAP is a fantastic tool for performing initial reconnaissance and enumeration. A simple ...

Linux X86 Assembly - How To Test Custom Shellcode Using a C Payload Tester

Overview In the last blog post in this series, we created a tool to make it easy to build our ...

Linux X86 Assembly - How To Make Payload Extraction Easier

Overview In the last blog post of the X86 Linux assembly series, we focused on how to make our ...

Linux X86 Assembly - How to Make Our Hello World Usable as an Exploit Payload

Overview In the last two tutorials, we built a Hello World program in NASM and GAS for x86 ...

Linux X86 Assembly - How to Build a Hello World Program in GAS

Overview In the last tutorial, we covered how to build a 32-bit x86 Hello World program in NASM. ...

Linux X86 Assembly - How to Build a Hello World Program in NASM

Overview A processor understands bytecode instructions specific to that architecture. We as humans ...

A Hacker’s Tour of the X86 CPU Architecture

Overview The Intel x86 CPU architecture is one of the most prolific CPU architectures for desktops, ...

LD_PRELOAD: How to Run Code at Load Time

Today I want to continue the series on using LD_PRELOAD. In previous posts, we covered how to ...

Converting NMAP XML Files to HTML with xsltproc

NMAP is a wonderful network scanner and its ability to log scan data to files, specifically XML, ...

Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge

Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery ...

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