I recently bought a NAS enclosure with 1TB of storage for my humble home LAN. While I eventually managed to identify the manufacturer as a firm called ‘Sumvision’, the packaging didn’t make this obvious and upon opening it up I got that distinct and familiar feeling of ‘you’re on your own from here’. Of course, [...]
The stack overflow has been discussed to death. If you don’t know the basic principle, then you should check out some of the the sixty-eight thousand hits on Google. Many of these descriptions would have you believe that any overflowable stack buffer will immediately allow the attacker to get root (or whatever the Windows equivalent [...]
If you were wondering why things have been so quiet for the past month, it’s because I’ve been spending my every waking hour learning to hack. This explains the presence of a new category here on the site, and the motivation behind some of the upcoming topics. It would be a shame to let January [...]