Category Archives: Security

Shellcode Analysis

Posted on 9th January, 2012 by Nick Bloor

I’ve been reading about exploit and shellcode development recently and I came across a blog post today that gave me a good opportunity to put some of my new knowledge to the test and do some shellcode analysis. The blog … Continue reading →

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Windows Hosts File Monitor

Posted on 28th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

Earlier I came across a tweet by @bartblaze that mentioned a new malware attack technique called “boy in the browser“. “Once executed on the victim’s machine the exploit code makes persistent changes [...]. The exploit code is then removed from … Continue reading →

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Regular expression denial of service attack

Posted on 8th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

Whilst doing some research for my final year university project on regular expression visualisation I came across an article about the performance of regular expression matching that caught my interest. In some implementations the time taken to detect whether a … Continue reading →

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