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Possible PE file trick
I was reading this: pefile and LOAD_CONFIG and took a look at the structure: IMAGE_LOAD_CONFIG_DIRECTORY Structure. Some things which I found interesting: GlobalFlagsClear – The global flags that control system behavior. For more information, see Gflags.exe. GlobalFlagsSet – The global flags that control system behavior. For more information, see Gflags.exe. LockPrefixTable – The VA of…
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Ethical hacker challenge solution posted
To the Santa Claus is Hacking in Town challenge. You can find it here: Santa Claus is Hacking to Town – Answers and Winners. Unfortunately my answer wasn’t accepted 100% because of a small misunderstanding, but it got cleared up and all is good now :-). The RaDaJo blog also posted a detailed solution (warning!…
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Mixed links
From the Security4All blog: Preventing Brute Force attacks with IPTABLES (Rate Limiting) – iptables is an incredibly versatile tool! Via the nezumi-lab blog: patch-diff – a free (as in beer) alternative for BinDiff. Something like Google Streetview, but not quite for Romania: NORC (they are using Google Maps underneath, but it seems that the photos…
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Watch out for long running tasks with Java Timer
The problem? Write a code which will execute every N seconds. The solution? Using a Timer with scheduleAtFixedRate. Now you got two problems :-), unless you’ve carefully read the documentation which states (emphasis added): If an execution is delayed for any reason (such as garbage collection or other background activity), two or more executions will…