privilege escalation - world-writable directories and files

2024-09-03

Often, privilege escalation exploits and other such malware requires write access to the filesystem in order to store and run the payload.

On Linux ...

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Raphael Mudge

2024-09-02

Raphael “butane” Mudge is an American hacker and software developer.

https://www.hick.org/~raffi/

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remote management

2024-09-02

Remote management is technology that allows IT professionals to monitor and maintain systems remotely.

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pfSense

2024-08-30

pfSense is a FreeBSD-based routing and firewall distribution.

https://www.pfsense.org/

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file descriptor

2024-08-29

On Linux and Unix-like systems, a file descriptor is a process-unique identifer representing a file, socket, pipe, or other input/output resource. ...

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interprocess communication

2024-08-29

Interprocess communication (IPC) are methods used by processes running on a computer to communicate with each other.

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LOLBin

2024-08-29

A LOLbin is a non-malicious binary that is a component of the operating system or highly likely to be installed on a host that can be used to spread ...

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.plan file

2024-08-28

On systems running finger services, each user may create their own .plan file within their home directory that is displayed when someone else queries ...

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.project file

2024-08-28

The .project file is a single lined file that is displayed when a user is looked up with finger services.

This is similar to .plan, but may only be ...

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Baron Samedit

2024-08-28

Baron Samedit (CVE-2021-3156) is a heap overflow vulnerability in the sudo software disclosed by Qualys in 2021.

This bug affects versions 1.8.2 to ...

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