Usually we experience two types of remote execution in practice:

• You log in to some remote machine and run the application there (ssh), and
• You get remote application copied locally and run it (mounting remote filesystems, javascript download, etc.)

There are other ideas too of course, but less popular in …

Many people may already know that all your devices try to broadcast your previous connections. I expect that many more have no idea that’s happening. There have been articles published about it before, but without specific examples.

WiFi probes

In order to connect to known networks which don’t …

As explained in the previous post, seccomp can be used for protecting the system and users from misbehaving and exploited applications. But there has to be some work done to actually enable the protection it offers. That’s where the programming part starts and possibly some exploration of the application …

Many programs running for a long time on some server do not do random, unpredictable things. They actually have a pretty well defined set of behaviours and anything that is outside of that set could be automatically treated as a bug, or a hack. For example databases do a lot …