At Cyberstorm Mauritius we work on several projects and code for fun. One of the interesting projects we have look at is an application called Tarsnap which is used to perform a secure backup on the cloud. At Cyberstorm Mauritius, myself (@TheTunnelix) and Codarren (@Devildron) recently send codes to Tarsnap and same were approved. That’s […]
A quick look at the manual of Strace would show you an indication that the strace command is used to trace system calls and signals. The desciption part stipulates that “In the simplest case strace runs the specified command until it exits. It intercepts and records the system calls which are called by a process and […]
I was quite surprised to notice that though, since the 14th of January 2016, the OpenSSH has released a patch to correct a major bug issue for those using the OpenSSH remote connectivity login tool many IT professionals have forgotten about that issue. The security vulnerability has been announced on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures […]
Yesterday, I wrote an article on Pointers and Dynamic Memory – Stack and Stack Overflow of Memory and I received good feedback about the article. More articles are requested by the fellow fans of cyberstorm.mu and I proposed to blog about “Heap”. As I discussed in the previous article, there are limitations to stack. We […]
From the article Pointers and Dynamic Memory – Part1, I made a little introduction of Pointers and a brief overview of Dynamic memory. In this article, we will get into some more details of Stack and StackOverflow in the context of Pointers and Dynamic memory. Let’s see a simple C program which we can use […]