C++

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

| | C++, Hijack, ld, LD_PRELOAD, libc, Linux, Penetration Testing, Professionally Evil, programming, Reverse Engineering, Shared Objects
    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 ...
Professionally Evil Insights
Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

LD_PRELOAD – Introduction

| | C++, debug, Hijack, ld, LD_PRELOAD, libc, Linux, Penetration Testing, Professionally Evil, programming, Reverse Engineering, rootkit, Shared Objects, training
    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 ...
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Wrapper’s Delight

| | C++, databases, Engineering Practice, Internship Projects, SQLite, wrappers
During my summer at Trail of Bits, I took full advantage of the latest C++ language features to build a new SQLite wrapper from scratch that is easy to use, lightweight, high ...
Trail of Bits Blog
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Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: “Why Can’t Johnny Code?”)

| | C++, Javascript, python, R
I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can’t Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same subject and ...
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Quick Hit: Speeding Up a Slow/Mundane Task with a Little Rcpp

| | C++, R, Rcpp
Over at $DAYJOB’s blog I’ve queued up a post that shows how to use our new opendata🔗 package to work with our Open Data portal’s API. I’m not super-sure when it’s going ...
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