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    Of MAC Addresses and OUI: A Subtle, but Useful, Recon Resource
    Of MAC Addresses and OUI: A Subtle, but Useful, Recon Resource
    network  |  professionally evil  |  Secure Ideas  |  MAC Address  |  IEEE  |  OUI  |  PENT
    When it comes to reconnaissance, every little bit of information can be helpful. Today, we will ...
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    LD_PRELOAD: Making a Backdoor by Hijacking accept()
    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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    How to Create Custom Probes For NMAP Service/Version Detection
    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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    Linux X86 Assembly - How To Test Custom Shellcode Using a C Payload Tester
    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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    Linux X86 Assembly - How To Make Payload Extraction Easier
    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 ...
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    Linux X86 Assembly - How to Make Our Hello World Usable as an Exploit Payload
    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 ...
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    Linux X86 Assembly - How to Build a Hello World Program in GAS
    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. ...
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    Linux X86 Assembly - How to Build a 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 ...
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    A Hacker’s Tour of the X86 CPU Architecture
    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, ...
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    LD_PRELOAD: How to Run Code at Load Time
    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 ...
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    Converting NMAP XML Files to HTML with xsltproc
    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, ...
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