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 corelanc0d3r interviewed by CubilFelino Security Research Labs

Hi all, Just wanted to drop a few words about that fact that I have been interview by chr1x (, the maintainer of CubilFelino Security Research Labs…

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 Forum restore

Hi all, Due to a server crash this afternoon, I had to restore the forum database from this morning. I have been able to recover some posts from …

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 Blackhat Europe 2010 Barcelona - Day 10

I got up early this morning, trying to be sharp and well prepared for day 2 of the BlackHat briefings.  As some of you may know, I'm not …

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 Blackhat Europe 2010 Barcelona - Day 01

As some of you might know, I am currently attending Blackhat Europe (hosted in Barcelona this year). So I wanted to take the opportunity to fill …

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 Exploiting Ken Ward Zipper : Taking advantage of payload conversion

In the article I wrote on the abysssec.com website, I explained the steps and techniques needed to build a working exploit for Ken Ward's zipper. …

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 QuickZip Stack BOF 0day: a box of chocolates

Over the last couple of weeks, ever since I published 2 articles on the Offensive Blog, I have received many requests from people asking me if they …

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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.