Vim Tricks
Vim (short for Vi-IMproved) is the greatest editor. Some may try to convince you that Nano is the greatest, some would say Notepad++, some would even say Emacs. These people are wrong. If anyone te...
Vim (short for Vi-IMproved) is the greatest editor. Some may try to convince you that Nano is the greatest, some would say Notepad++, some would even say Emacs. These people are wrong. If anyone te...
I created a little web app useful for looking up the User Account Control values displayed in a standard LDAP query from Active Directory. Most of the time this integer is obscured from the viewer ...
On any given CTF where crypto is involved, I almost always see basically the same challenge every time. You are given a background on how you’ve intercepted the encryption oracle, but not the decry...
Bit flipping is another one of those magical attack techniques that a lot of people seem to want to write off as “I think there’s a tool that does that automatically for you.” And yeah I’m sure the...
I’ve said this before through various iterations, but some people work on cars, some build models, I write code to imitate an old cipher device from World War II. While I’ve named this code “PyNigm...
In a previous post, I explained the very broad mechanism of what to do to predict the Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator. I only posted the functions but never actually showed them in ...
I’ve always had some sort of weird nerdy interest in pseudo-random number generators. How is it that a computer, an object based solely on a deterministic approach to everything, can generate a num...
The title may be a bit exaggerated, but to be perfectly honest I feel that PExpect, the Python version of standard old Expect, is hardly ever mentioned in the many Infosec personalities I follow wh...
Here are some of the more “advanced” concepts of using Bash. This has more of a pentesting lean, since that’s kind of what I do. Still though, I’m sure a lot of people could take something out of t...
I use bash a lot. Say what you will of it, it’s a powerful shell. Sure I keep hearing that zsh is so much better, but I come from a system administrator background, so…while I think Zsh is neat to ...