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    Introduction to Writing Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) Scripts
    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 of ...
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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 ...
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    Privilege Escalation via File Descriptors in Privileged Binaries
    Today I wanted to cover an application security topic that applies to SetUID binaries. As we all ...
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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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