security – crypto

oracle sucks

I hate them because their ceo gets into politics and warmongering. He brags about killing people and does politics. I like the Neely and other editors comments: Oracle Denies Cloud Breach Because Servers Were “Obsolete”(April 8 & 9, 2025) After denying that a reported March 20, 2025 breach of Oracle Cloud took place, Oracle hasContinue reading “oracle sucks”

c++ class CIS-5

created a new win2016 azure vm. just to do learning on c++. I get segmentation fault running any program, compiles ok. Ok next step is add ram then reinstall cygwin. This worked fine on a azure windows 11. armadmin@compiler /usr/code$ gdb aGNU gdb (GDB) (Cygwin 13.2-1) 13.2Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.License GPLv3+: GNUContinue reading “c++ class CIS-5”

Kernel patch protection? Kernal DMA protections same thing?

Is Kernal patch protection available for ARM systems? Kernal DMA protection, is this the same thing? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/kernel-dma-protection-for-thunderbolt Kernal Patch protection. Same thing?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection In x64 editions of Windows, Microsoft began to enforce restrictions on what structures drivers can and cannot modify. Kernel Patch Protection is the technology that enforces these restrictions. It works by periodically checkingContinue reading “Kernel patch protection? Kernal DMA protections same thing?”

security+ test

Application shims are on the security+ test, which is required for some federal jobs. Now if you want to make some money as a highly paid consultant, you might need to rebuild apps to work on newer versions of windows. How can you make that cash? You could use this shim kit to try toContinue reading “security+ test”

windows installer exploit

I went through this again, trying to figure out what exactly is going on with the windows installer. It seems to me this is an exploit of the windows installer as much as an exploit of an application. The details of how the windows installer works gave me a few insights. The specific directory theyContinue reading “windows installer exploit”