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 Pastenum - Pastebin/pastie enumeration tool

When conducting a pen-test, the process typically starts with the reconnaissance phase, the process of gathering information about your target(s) …
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 BlackHat Europe 2011 / Day 02

Having missed the IOActive party last night, I woke up fresh and sharp and ready for some kick-ass debugger stuff so I decided to start my second day…
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 BlackHat Europe 2011 / Day 01

After having breakfast, chatting with ping and hanging out with @kokanin, @xme and @wimremes, it was time to start attending the various talks. So, …
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 BlackHat Europe 2011 / Preview

Things change. 11 months have passed since a lot of people found themselves trapped all over Europe (including Barcelona) because of a little volcano…
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 Codegate 2011 CTF - Binary200 - Anti Debugging Techniques Explained

Aloha, Again I stumbled upon a nice reverse-me, binary200 from the Codegate 2011 CTF. And again there are some really interesting anti-debugging …
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Corelan Research is a long-running cybersecurity research project focused on exploit development, vulnerability research and Windows internals.   Since 2009, we have published deep technical tutorials covering topics such as stack-based exploitation, heap exploitation, shellcoding, reverse engineering and debugging. 
These tutorials have helped thousands of security researchers, penetration testers, exploit developers and exploit dev trainers learn how modern memory corruption vulnerabilities work.