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Carnal0wnage Blog

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Carnal0wnage Blog is a personal blog at carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com about security. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
8HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Security blog on penetration testing and Windows privilege escalation. The one HN comment cites an older post from the blog as a guide to a sticky-keys style admin-access technique, alongside a Microsoft fix.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

information security blog about red teaming and offensive techniques

What Hacker News says?

  1. According to step 7 and 8, you only need to create a copy of the cmd binary and name it sethc. Here's a 'guide' from 2012 http://carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com/2012/04/privilege-esc... And here's a 'fix' from microsoft: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a3...

    Comment linking /2012/04/privilege-escalation-via-sticky-keys.html

    on “How to get into an admin account on a Windows computer”
  2. Submitted Full Disclosure – RCEs in nbox recorder as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Let's Call Stunt Hacking What It Is, Media Whoring as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Vulnerability Disclosure, Free Bug Reports and Being a Greedy Bastard as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Basics of Rails Part 5 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted DevOoops Presentation by carnal0wnage and cktricky as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Mimikatz Against Virtual Machine Memory Part 1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Stealing passwords every time they change as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Biggest Problem in Computer Security as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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