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XPN Infosec Blog

Personal blog · blog.xpnsec.comsecuritysystems

XPN Infosec Blog is a personal blog at blog.xpnsec.com about security and systems. Since 2018, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Exploiting CVE-2018-1038 – Total Meltdown”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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13mentions?
11HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

One HN commenter links the blog's Linux process-injection post while noting that ptrace() also works on Linux. The blog covers Windows process injection and hooking; the comment does not assess the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Exploiting CVE-2018-1038 – Total Meltdown
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-23
  2. macOS “DirtyNIB” Vulnerability
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. badrabbit · 2022-04-20
    You can ptrace() on Linux as well, it just isn't as easy: https://blog.xpnsec.com/linux-process-injection-aka-injectin...

    Comment linking /linux-process-injection-aka-injecting-into-sshd-for-fun/

    on “Implementing Global Injection and Hooking in Windows”
  2. el_duderino · 2019-08-14

    Submitted Analysing RPC with Ghidra and Neo4j as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. GordonS · 2021-05-05

    Submitted Weird Ways to Run Unmanaged Code in .NET as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. el_duderino · 2019-08-06

    Submitted Analysing RPC with Ghidra and Neo4j as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. vuln · 2018-04-23

    Submitted Exploiting CVE-2018-1038 – Total Meltdown as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. frizlab · 2024-06-20

    Submitted We Need to Talk About MACL (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. jshchnz · 2023-10-06

    Submitted macOS “DirtyNIB” Vulnerability as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. akyuu · 2023-10-05

    Submitted macOS “DirtyNIB” Vulnerability as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. todsacerdoti · 2023-06-25

    Submitted Restoring Dyld Memory Loading as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. jshchnz · 2023-06-23

    Submitted Building a Custom Mach-O Memory Loader for macOS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. casca · 2018-04-30

    Submitted Exploiting CVE-2018-1038 – Total Meltdown as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. based2 · 2018-04-28

    Submitted Exploiting CVE-2018-1038 – Total Meltdown as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. 68c12c16 · 2018-01-21

    Submitted Exploiting Windows 10 Kernel Drivers – NULL Pointer Dereference as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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