What is Zip Slip?
Know about the Zip Slip vulnerability.
Understanding Dirty COW - The Linux Kernel Exploit
Dirty COW is a computer security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux Kernel in 2016. The exploit was registered under CVE …
What is an Electronic Nose?
Alexander Graham Bell once said- “Did you ever measure a smell? Can you tell whether one smell is just twice strong as another? Can you …
Exploits & Vulnerabilities with Introduction to Metasploit
Exploits and Vulnerabilities In computer security, a vulnerability is a weakness which can be exploited by a Threat Actor like an …
File Permissions in Unix/Linux
File Permissions Unix & Linux provides Read(r),Write(w) and Execute(x) permissions to any file on the system. If you ls -l every …
The Virtual File System
File Systems In Linux Linux works on the concept of virtual file systems. Everything on a Linux/Unix system is a file. Here is a brief …
How Your Computer Starts
Every computer follows a standard boot sequence when it starts up.
BIOS (Basic Input Output System) The CPU runs an instruction in …
A Guide to Partitions & Partitioning Drives in Linux
Linux has completely different naming conventions while mounting drives as compared to Windows. /dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc etc. are the …
PATH Environment Variable in Linux/Unix
What is the $PATH environment variable? Every Linux & Unix System has several environment variables which are dynamic variables …
Virtualisation in Operating Systems
Virtualisation is the process of creating a virtual version of a physical object.
Virtualisation is of three types primarily: 1. …