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Nefarious nudges and NOPs
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Initializing search
    • An adversary mind map, one of many
      • Footing
      • What is there
      • Findings
      • Mapping
      • Turning access into position
        • Distinguishing interaction from capability
        • Spending capabilities for lateral movement
        • Operational reach and positional value
        • Getting past the login page
        • What honours what
        • Getting the lid off
        • Getting something of one’s own to run
        • Overflowing the bin on purpose
          • Nefarious nudges and NOPs
            • Importance of buffer overflows
            • Stack operations and function-calling
            • Linux x86 exploits
            • Memory corruption on hardened targets
          • Nefarious nudges and NOPs
            • Importance of buffer overflows
            • Stack operations and function-calling
            • Linux x86 exploits
            • Memory corruption on hardened targets
          • Runbooks
        • Crypto-attacks
        • Reverse engineering
        • Slipping through the cracks
        • The art of becoming part of the furniture
      • What changed, and what it cost
      • Revising, then pricing
      • Converting position into value
      • Assessing, then deciding
    • The grounds
    • Ankh-Morpork: the city leaves a footprint
    • Fungolia earthworks
    • Unseen University Power & Light Co.
    • The Scarlet Semaphore
    • TryHackMe rooms
    • Root-Me challenges
    • RIPE NCC Academy labs

    Nefarious nudges and NOPs¶

    The raccoon’s annotated field guide to overflow hunting: vulnerability discovery, memory manipulation, and shell-spawning sorcery. Not quite bedtime reading, unless segfaults and root shells count as sweet dreams.

    Notes on techniques

    • Importance of buffer overflows
    • Stack operations and function-calling
    • Linux x86 exploits
    • Memory corruption on hardened targets
    2026-07-30 17:57
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