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    Quick Bites - Finding Open Windows File Shares
    Vulnerability  |  network  |  Secure Ideas  |  hacking  |  network security  |  Windows  |  scanning  |  methodology  |  how-to  |  Free
    Hi there, ladies and gentlemen! My name is Aaron Moss, and welcome to the first edition of Quick ...
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    LD_PRELOAD: Making a Backdoor by Hijacking accept()
    application security  |  professionally evil  |  Secure Ideas  |  LD_PRELOAD  |  accept  |  dup2  |  make  |  Linux  |  programming  |  Shared Objects  |  dlsym  |  shell  |  backdoor  |  rootkit  |  userland  |  ELF  |  inject  |  injection
    Today I want to continue the series on using LD_PRELOAD. In previous posts, we covered how to ...
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    PowerShell Tips: How do I Mount a VHD or Lock a BitLocker Drive?
    encryption  |  security  |  professionally evil  |  Secure Ideas  |  getting started  |  BitLocker  |  VHD  |  rtfm  |  manage-bde  |  mount-vhd  |  manage bitlocker  |  technology  |  technology tips and tricks  |  Windows 10  |  VHDX  |  encrypted drive  |  technology tips  |  how-to  |  btfm  |  Windows 11
    PowerShell Tips How do I Mount a VHD or Lock a BitLocker Encrypted Drive?
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    Wild West Hackin Fest 2022: The Return
    Man, San Diego is beautiful. I don't know exactly why John Strand and Black Hills Information ...
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    How to Create Custom Probes For NMAP Service/Version Detection
    network  |  hacking  |  cybersecurity  |  pentesting  |  scanning  |  NMAP  |  version  |  service  |  probe  |  ports  |  match  |  chrome  |  debugging  |  nmap-service-probes  |  softmatch  |  rarity  |  directive  |  remote
    Overview NMAP is a fantastic tool for performing initial reconnaissance and enumeration. A simple ...
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    How to verify PGP signatures
    PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is an encryption software that is mostly known for its use in email. It ...
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    Digging Between the Couch Cushions - CouchDB CVE-2021-38295 Breakdown
    Introduction In this blog post we’re going to take a look at the recent CouchDB vulnerability, ...
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    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 ...
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    It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times...
    Two of the characters in Charles Dickens’ beloved novel, A Tale of Two Cities have such similar ...
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