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The Best Way to Capture Traffic in 2021

There are times when you need to capture some network traffic. Maybe you’re troubleshooting a ...

Run as Admin: Executive Order on Cybersecurity

On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order on cybersecurity. This new order ...

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 ...

AppSec Cheat Code: Shift Left, Shift Right, Up, Down & Start

Seamless and unobtrusive security is the future. We are huge advocates of shifting left and moving ...

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, ...

Three Excellent API Security Practices Most People Neglect

We are very much in the age of APIs. From widely-used single-purpose products like Slack to ...

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 ...

Announcing Burp Co2!

This is for those of you who do web pen testing with Portswigger’s Burp proxy tool! Over the past ...

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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