Recently a number of articles were published alerting VLC users about a new zero day. The remote code execution this zero day takes advantage of does sound rather scary and users should definitely be made aware of the issue. Yet there’s a difference between sensible and sensational reporting.
Read More10x engineers is a Silicon Valley term used to describe engineers that are ten times more productive than average. They can be from any of the usual IT categories; programmers, network engineers, sysadmins, etc.
Read MoreA zero day vulnerability is a software bug that has been fixed/patched for 0 days. A zero day exploit is the code attackers use to take advantage of a zero day vulnerability.
Read MoreIn the last blog I attempted to hack a server (with permission, naturally) and discovered it had a debugger running that gave me a foothold. However I couldn’t get full control of the system without a skill upgrade in the realm of return-oriented programming (ROP) chaining.
Read MoreYou’ve probably read that it’s wise to harden your systems. You want to reduce your footprint so that you aren’t wasting resources or leaving yourself vulnerable unnecessarily. The theory sounds great but the practical implementation is a bit abstract.
Read MoreOur last update on the on-going antivirus battle was back in April so surely you are curious about the current results.
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