First off, as a disclaimer, I need to inform you that we will be talking about POSIX systems. While all operating systems have these, the implementation can be different. As we go along I will be talking about the level of persistence. There are thre...
There are many ways third parties can invade your privacy while you are browsing through the net. There are two main aspects to this discussion. One of them is about internal risks and the other is about external risks. The internal risks include soc...
DLL libraries are pre-compiled function libraries that will be loaded and unloaded from memory on runtime by demand. For them to be usable by an executable, they need to be linked to the executable at the linker time. They can be linked in two differ...
Most people see HTTPS services as some kind of a black box, which is untrue. HTTPS relies on the RSA encryption system. The RSA is a different post but the short version is you have two complementary keys, one public and one private. Everything com...
RSA is a cryptosystem for secure data transfer over the net. The acronym comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, who published it in 1977. As with all great creations, there was a little bit of wine involved in the mak...
Since this will be the first writing I have ever done on subjects of my profession, I believe it makes sense to talk about some tools and technologies. First off, let's talk about Linux distributions. Whatever tool I might mention in the future has a...
