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A blog by experts of penetration testing and other security assessments.

Introduction to Writing Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) Scripts

NMAP | programming | NSE

One thing I notice a lot of people are missing in their skill set as security professionals is the ability to write NSE scripts for Nmap. This skill isn’t too hard to learn and by not learning it, you are leaving a lot of value on the table. I feel like the issue though is that there isn’t a lot ...

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How to Obfuscate Strings in Rust the Easy Way Using the litcrypt Crate

application security | programming | rust | Obfuscate | litcrypt

Overview Static strings in a binary can make the life easier for reverse engineers, be those ...

Privilege Escalation via File Descriptors in Privileged Binaries

Today I wanted to cover an application security topic that applies to SetUID binaries. As we ...

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 ...