Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge

Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge”.  On November 13th of 2020, we released a challenge that contained a payload and it was only solved by one person on twitter.  That challenge is as follows: I decided it might be ... Read More
Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge

Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge”.  On November 13th of 2020, we released a challenge that contained a payload and it was only solved by one person on twitter.  That challenge is as follows: I decided it might be ... Read More
Not-So-Random: LD_PRELOAD to Hijack the rand() Function to Control The Generation of Random Numbers

Not-So-Random: Using LD_PRELOAD to Hijack the rand() Function

    Today I wanted to continue the series on using LD_PRELOAD.  In today’s post we are going to use LD_PRELOAD to hijack the rand() function in a simple random number guessing game to control the generation of random numbers and effectively be able to cheat in this simple game by making ... Read More
Not-So-Random: LD_PRELOAD to Hijack the rand() Function to Control The Generation of Random Numbers

Not-So-Random: Using LD_PRELOAD to Hijack the rand() Function

    Today I wanted to continue the series on using LD_PRELOAD.  In today’s post we are going to use LD_PRELOAD to hijack the rand() function in a simple random number guessing game to control the generation of random numbers and effectively be able to cheat in this simple game by making ... Read More
Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

LD_PRELOAD – Introduction

    Today I wanted to start what I plan to be a small series of blog posts about LD_PRELOAD. LD_PRELOAD is related to Linux based systems and revolves around the loader system and how shared object libraries resolve linker symbols when loading a dynamically linked ELF binary and is loaded before ... Read More
Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

LD_PRELOAD – Introduction

    Today I wanted to start what I plan to be a small series of blog posts about LD_PRELOAD. LD_PRELOAD is related to Linux based systems and revolves around the loader system and how shared object libraries resolve linker symbols when loading a dynamically linked ELF binary and is loaded before ... Read More