If you're already familiar with PCI behavior and Linux's handling of DMA buffers, skip to the third section for my actual question. Otherwise read on for a small summary of how PCI devices perform memory accesses, and how the kernel handles communicating with devices using DMA. I've included this...

I'm trying to packet capture a remote system using Wireshark on my primarily windows environment. I want to sniff out SMBv1 and HTTP traffic. I've read this was possible using WinPCap, but it's been discontinued and isn't secure, and that the newer Npcap is the recommended way to do. I'm testin...

Attackers often don't just use dictionaries, but also rules which permute the words in dictionaries. For instance, a rule could be to substitute certain letters for numbers, which look the same. This would turn Password into P455w0rd. A rule, which could apply in this case, would be to remove s...