A buffer overflow happens when a program writes more data into a memory buffer than the buffer can hold. The extra bytes land in adjacent memory, corrupting whatever was there. If an attacker controls ...

This script connects to the target host, and compresses the authentication request with a bad offset field set in the transformation header, causing the decompressor to buffer overflow and crash the ...

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A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet called C0XMO is targeting DD-WRT router firmware and can move to other device types with various CPU architectures. The researchers found samples for ARM, MIPS, ...

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Microsoft’s biggest hardware releases of 2026 include new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro business models, lower-cost Surface configurations, and Project Solara. If you can only read one tech story a ...

The write-up follows the exploitation workflow from reverse engineering with Cutter to payload development and remote exploitation using Pwntools, GDB/pwndbg, Python, and Linux debugging techniques.

Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn't. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked. A chatbot ...

Monday hit like a cron job with anger issues. A busted auth path here, a repo-side faceplant there, some "patched-ish" thing already getting chewed on in the wild, and then the usual bonus round: ...

Growth was monitored by recording OD 660 over time. Statistics All statistical analyses (two tails Student’s t -test) were performed with Python. p -value < 0.05 was considered to be significant. p ...