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But AI Can Give Me the Commands! Why You Still Need to Learn the Linux File System
It’s now easier than ever for AI to write your bash scripts or give you the exact command to restart a service. It’s now also easy to skip learning how the Linux file system actually works if you are new to the Linux CLI. But understanding where things live in a Linux system isn’t just old-school ...
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From Linux to PowerShell and Back: A Quick Command Reference
Quick Overview If you are like me, you are switching back and forth between Linux and Windows ...
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Privilege Escalation via File Descriptors in Privileged Binaries
application security |
professionally evil |
Secure Ideas |
Linux |
programming |
File Descriptors |
SetUID |
Privilege Escalation
Today I wanted to cover an application security topic that applies to SetUID binaries. As we all ...
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How to Update the Nmap OUI Database
network |
professionally evil |
Secure Ideas |
NMAP |
Linux |
IEEE |
OUI |
nmap-mac-prefixes
Overview In a previous blog post, I covered what an OUI is, how to extract them from a MAC address, ...
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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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