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 Enable incoming icmp (ping) in Vista

By default, Vista has the Windows Firewall is turned on. This means that all incoming connections are being blocked. This may be a good …

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 Howto reset offline files in XP and Vista

Windows XP Method 1 1. In Folder Options, on the Offline Files tab, press CTRL+SHIFT, and then click Delete Files. The …

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 Sharepoint WSS 3.0 Alerts don’t work

After migrating this blog from my old 2008 RC1 server to a new 2008 RTM server, I noticed that my Sharepoint alerts stopped working. I was still …

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 Monitor file age with Operations Manager 2007 (vbscript monitor)

In this post, I will explain one of the techniques to monitor the age of a given file, using vbscript and Operations Manager 2007 This is …

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 Free tool - PVE SMTP Open Relay Tester

I have decided to make some of my old (and new) tools and scripts available to the community.  The first (6 years old but still …

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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.