As a note to self, comes in handy whenever you're missing netcat: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use IO::Socket; use Net::hostent; $...

I've been enjoying some really good podcasts lately, in particular Security Now! . I was listening to episode 389 this morning about UP...

A couple of years ago I got curious about Wardriving but I never took time to go around sniffing for wireless networks on my own. Today I ...

Hey there! I'm currently reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce A. Tate. As the title implies, this book explores seven differ...

About a year ago I stumbled upon the Over The Wire hacker challenges and started solving the first set of levels (called vortex). Since the...

It's time for the next programming language in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks : Scala ! The self-study assignment consists in writing a...

The goal of vortex level 6 is to reverse engineer a binary executable to exploit it. I used objdump to decompile the code section. Check ou...