Securing Linux systems and applications; understanding Linux security features.
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What are the implications of including binary blobs in the Linux kernel?
According to this there are compelling reasons for caution when installing obfuscated binaries. Knowing this, how can running binary blobs as a part of the Linux kernel be acceptable from a security ...
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DBus proxy Javascript binding issues
Recent Gnome-3 (under GNU/Linux, BSD or other Un*x) offer a gnome shell with nice presentation, but where the configuration and theming are to be done via Internet Browser (and a public URL, on a ...
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Help in understanding an application's crash - exploitable?
Being new to researching vulnerabilities in native applications (as opposed to web apps), I'm having difficulties understanding a crash in Debian's browser, Epiphany (version 2.30.6), and determining ...
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Getting exploit reliability when using the off by one framepointer overwrite on linux
scenario:
we have a program that is vulnerable to a one byte framepointer overwrite (note: stack is marked executable, Linux machine with aslr disabled and stack cookies disabled also standard x86 so ...
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Where can I look for malware that may have been installed on my machine?
I want to analysis my ubuntu box to detect if it was been hacked.
My question is:
what are all the place where to look to discover if some malicious software are started ?
The following is some kind ...
