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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Speaking Developers’ Love Languages
Developers are a finicky breed, especially when it comes to the languages they code in. And, while they don’t always get to use the languages they love most, there are still factors ...
It’s Okay, We’re All On the SameSite
With Google’s recent announcement that all cookies without a SameSite flag will be treated as having SameSite=Lax set by default in Chrome version 80, surely Cross-Site Request Forgery will be dead? Well, ...
Does my Scala Value Class really not get allocated?
Scala’s Value Classes are a powerful and widely used mechanism for extension methods and additional type safety, both without incurring the runtime overhead of an allocation. For example, we can provide additional ...
Zero-Day Snafus — Hunting Memory Allocation Bugs
Zero-Day Snafus — Hunting Memory Allocation BugsPrefaceLanguages like C/C++ come with the whole “allocation party” of malloc, calloc, zalloc, realloc and their specialized versions kmalloc etc. For example, malloc has a signature void *malloc(size_t ...
Developers, Say Goodbye to Vulnerabilities. Squash Those Bugs!
Did you know that open source software security reviews once took an average of 25 days just to sort and map the dependencies? ...
Welcome to the New Secureideas.com
We are excited to announce the launch of the new Secure Ideas website. It is located at the same url: https://www.secureideas.com. We hope you like our new look, designed to help you ...
Programmers Who Don’t Understand Security Are Poor at Security
A university study confirmed the obvious: if you pay a random bunch of freelance programmers a small amount of money to write security software, they're not going to do a very good ...
