Independent research index / First release
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- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1992
UNIX Password Hacker: An Alternative Approach
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 9, number 1
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1991
UNIX Password Hacker
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 8, number 1
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1991
Useful UNIX Programs
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 8, number 3
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1989
More On Hacking UNIX
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 6, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1988
A Hacker's Guide to UNIX
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 5, number 4
- 2600 / article-index-entry / 1986
Knowing UNIX
Author not cataloged · Issue/event Volume 3, number 8
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
A Droidwork Orange: A Longitudinal Study of Android Security Research
Nicholas Miazzo, Eleonora Losiouk · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
An Android voyage from Java to Smali with ASM
Ricardo Loura · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2026
BTR Reforged: Weaponizing Defender's Remediation Driver as a Kernel Operation Primitive
Jiří Vinopal · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
Bootkits Forever: Emulando APTs Modernos desde UEFI hasta el Kernel
Alejandro Vázquez Vázquez · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2026
Bring-Your-Own-EDR - Breaking Windows Process Protection to build EDR-Protected Malware
Shahak Morag · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2026
Chaining Logical Bugs for Reliable Windows LPE
Bocheng "Crispr" Xiang, HeeChan "heegong123" Kim · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2026
Chaining Microsoft Binaries to get Privileged Primitives in the Windows kernel
Angelo Frasca Caccia · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
ChronoRoot: Time-Traveling Through Kernel Trust Boundaries
Ahmeen Muhammad, Sydney Johns · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
Controlling our devices: linux on mobile
Ranny Bergamotte · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
Cracking ValleyRAT: From Builder Secrets to Kernel Rootkits
Jiří Vinopal · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2026
Dylib Hijacking on macOS: Dead or Alive?
Patrick Wardle · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2026
Forgotten but Not Gone: Unauthenticated RCEs and LPEs in Legacy Linux Services
Ron Ben Yizhak · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
From Dirty COW to Copy Fail: Ten Years of Linux Page-Cache Write Primitives
Bill Brousalis · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
Hardening Linux : A Triple-Threat Approach: SELinux, FAPolicyd, and AuditD
Joshua Loscar · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
IsMyPhonePwned: Analyzing Android/iOS Phones at Scale
Desnos Anthony · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2026
MSIX'd Up: Weaponizing the Modern Windows App Packaging Ecosystem
Nick "zyn3rgy" Powers · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
Modern advances in kernel fuzzing
Hai Tederry · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2026
Plug And Pwn: Weaponizing Windows PnP Auto-Install
Alejandro "0xedh" Hernando, Borja "borjmz" Martinez · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
Random Cool Things from postmarketOS (a linux-based mobile OS)
Ranny Bergamotte · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
Ropkit: Framework for Windows Kernel Code Execution under HVCI
Nathan Sawyer · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2026
When Cash Runs on Windows: A Red Team Look at ATM Attack Surfaces
Gerardo Mejia · Issue/event 34
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Binary Facades: Reversing approaches to extract embedded scripts in compiled macOS malware
Patrick Wardle · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
BitUnlocker: Leveraging Windows Recovery to Extract BitLocker Secrets
Alon "alon_leviev" Leviev, Netanel Ben Simon · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Can't Stop the ROP: Automating Universal ASLR Bypasses for Windows
Bramwell Brizendine · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Emulating Embedded Linux Devices at Scale with Light-Touch Firmware Rehosting
Sigusr Polke · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2025
Hacking phones for Linux: Introduction to postmarketOS
Ranny Bergamotte · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Help! Linux in my Webcam! (•_•)
Mickey Shkatov, Jesse Michael · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Infecting the Boot to Own the Kernel: Bootkits and Rootkits Development
Alejandro "TheMalwareGuardian" Vazquez, Maria "drkrysSrng" San Jose · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Jailbreaking the Hivemind: Finding and Exploiting Kernel Vulnerabilities in the eBPF Subsystem
Agostino "Van1sh" Panico · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Mastering Apple's Endpoint Security for Advanced macOS Malware Detection
Patrick Wardle · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2025
Matrioska: A User-Centric Defense Against Virtualization-Based Repackaging Malware on Android
Samuele Doria · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Original Sin of SSO: macOS PRT Cookie Theft & Entra ID Persistence via Device Forgery
Shang-De "HackerPeanutJohn" Jiang, Dong-Yi "Kazma Ye" Ye, Tung-Lin "Echo Lee" Lee · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2025
Rooting the Rootless: Kernel Tactics to Nullify RASP Protections
Subho Halder · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
SSH-nanigans: Busting Open the Mainframes Iron Fortress through Unix
Philip "Soldier of FORTRAN" Young · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
Silent Leaks: Harvesting Secrets from Shared Linux Environments
Cernica Ionut Cosmin · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2025
Traditional Pentest Meets AI: New Challenges in Android Security
Gabrielle Botbol · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / creator-talk-panel / 2025
Using SELinux and Podman to secure local Model Context Protocol resources
Brian "RedBeard" Harrington · Issue/event 33
- DEF CON / main-track-talk / 2025
What is Dead May Never Die: The Ghost of Internet Explorer in Windows: MapUrlToZone
George Hughey, Rohit Mothe · Issue/event 33
- Phrack / article / 2025
Mapping IOKit Methods Exposed to User Space on macOS
Karol Mazurek · Issue/event 72
- Phrack / article / 2025
Revisiting Similarities of Android Apps
Jakob Bleier, Martina Lindorfer · Issue/event 72
- Phrack / article / 2024
Finding hidden kernel modules (extrem way reborn)
g1inko · Issue/event 71
- Phrack / article / 2024
Phrack Prophile on BSDaemon
Phrack Staff · Issue/event 71
- Phrack / article / 2021
Hypervisor Necromancy; Reanimating Kernel Protectors
Aris Thallas · Issue/event 70
- Phrack / article / 2021
Tale of two hypervisor bugs - Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve
Reno Robert · Issue/event 70
- Phrack / article / 2021
Viewer Discretion Advised: (De)coding an iOS Kernel Vulnerability
Adam Donenfeld · Issue/event 70
- Phrack / article / 2016
Revisiting Mac OS X Kernel Rootkits
fG! · Issue/event 69
- Phrack / article / 2012
Android Kernel Rootkit
dong-hoon you · Issue/event 68
- Phrack / article / 2012
Infecting loadable kernel modules: kernel versions 2.6.x/3.0.x
styx^ · Issue/event 68
- Phrack / article / 2010
Exploiting Memory Corruptions in Fortran Programs Under Unix/VMS
Magma · Issue/event 67
- Phrack / article / 2010
Kernel instrumentation using kprobes
ElfMaster · Issue/event 67
- Phrack / article / 2009
Developing MacOS X Kernel Rootkits
ghalen and wowie · Issue/event 66
- Phrack / article / 2009
Exploiting UMA : FreeBSD kernel heap exploits
argp and karl · Issue/event 66
- Phrack / article / 2009
Linux Kernel Heap Tampering Detection
Larry H · Issue/event 66
- Phrack / article / 2008
Phrack Prophile on The UNIX Terrorist
TCLH · Issue/event 65
- Phrack / article / 2008
Stealth Hooking: another way to subvert the Windows kernel
Mxatone and IvanLeFou · Issue/event 65
- Phrack / article / 2007
Attacking the Core: Kernel Exploitation Notes
twiz & sgrakkyu · Issue/event 64
- Phrack / article / 2005
Games with kernel Memory...FreeBSD Style
jkong · Issue/event 63
- Phrack / article / 2005
Hacking Windows CE (pocketpcs & others)
San · Issue/event 63
- Phrack / article / 2005
Process Hiding & The Linux Scheduler
ubra · Issue/event 63
- Phrack / article / 2005
Raising The Bar For Windows Rootkit Detection
sherri sparks & jamie butler · Issue/event 63
- Phrack / article / 2004
Advances in Windows Shellcode
sk · Issue/event 62
- Phrack / article / 2004
Bypassing Windows Personal FW's
rattle · Issue/event 62
- Phrack / article / 2004
Kernel Mode Backdoor for NT
firew0rker · Issue/event 62
- Phrack / article / 2003
Hacking the Linux Kernel Network Stack
bioforge · Issue/event 61
- Phrack / article / 2003
Hijacking Linux Page Fault Handler
buffer · Issue/event 61
- Phrack / article / 2003
Infecting Loadable Kernel Modules
truff · Issue/event 61
- Phrack / article / 2003
Kernel Rootkit Experiences & the Future
stealth · Issue/event 61
- Phrack / article / 2002
Advances in kernel hacking II
palmers · Issue/event 59
- Phrack / article / 2002
Defeating Forensic Analysis on Unix
the grugq · Issue/event 59
- Phrack / article / 2002
Execution path analysis: finding kernel based rootkits
Jan K. Rutkowski · Issue/event 59
- Phrack / article / 2002
Linux/390 shellcode development
johnny cyberpunk · Issue/event 59
- Phrack / article / 2002
Playing with Windows /dev/(k)mem
crazylord · Issue/event 59
- Phrack / article / 2002
Writing Linux Kernel Keylogger
rd · Issue/event 59
- Phrack / article / 2002
Smashing The Kernel Stack For Fun And Profit
noir · Issue/event 60
- Phrack / article / 2002
Static Kernel Patching
jbtzhm · Issue/event 60
- Phrack / article / 2001
Advances in kernel hacking
palmers · Issue/event 58
- Phrack / article / 2001
Developing StrongARM/Linux shellcode
funkysh · Issue/event 58
- Phrack / article / 2001
Linux on-the-fly kernel patching without LKM
devik & sd · Issue/event 58
- Phrack / article / 2001
Linux x86 kernel function hooking emulation
mayhem · Issue/event 58
- Phrack / article / 1999
Building Into The Linux Network Layer
lifeline & kossak · Issue/event 55
- Phrack / article / 1998
Hardening the Linux Kernel
daemon9 · Issue/event 52
- Phrack / article / 1998
The Linux pingd
daemon9 · Issue/event 52
- Phrack / article / 1998
Weakening the Linux Kernel
plaguez · Issue/event 52
- Phrack / article / 1998
A Stealthy Windows Keylogger
markj8 · Issue/event 53
- Phrack / article / 1998
Linux Trusted Path Execution redux
K. Baranowski · Issue/event 53
- Phrack / article / 1998
Hardening OpenBSD for Multiuser Environments
route · Issue/event 54
- Phrack / article / 1998
Linux and Random Source Bleaching
phunda mental · Issue/event 54
- Phrack / article / 1997
Hardwire Interfacing under Linux
Professor · Issue/event 50
- Phrack / article / 1997
Linux TTY hijacking
halflife · Issue/event 50
- Phrack / article / 1995
Your New Windows Background (Part 1)
The Man · Issue/event 47
- Phrack / article / 1995
Your New Windows Background (Part 2)
Substance · Issue/event 47
- Phrack / article / 1994
Unix Hacking - Tools of the Trade
The Shining · Issue/event 46
- Phrack / article / 1993
Playing Hide and Seek, Unix Style
Phrack Accident · Issue/event 43
- Phrack / article / 1990
Unix 'Nasties'
Sir Hackalot · Issue/event 32
- Phrack / article / 1989
Hiding Out Under Unix
Black Tie Affair · Issue/event 25
- Phrack / article / 1989
Unix Cracking Tips
Dark OverLord · Issue/event 25
- Phrack / article / 1989
Sending Fakemail In Unix
Dark OverLord · Issue/event 27
- Phrack / article / 1988
Unix System Security Issues
Jester Sluggo · Issue/event 18
- Phrack / article / 1988
Unix for the Moderate
Urvile · Issue/event 18
- Phrack / article / 1988
An Indepth Guide In Hacking Unix
Red Knight · Issue/event 22
- Phrack / article / 1988
Yet Another File On Hacking Unix
unknown · Issue/event 22
- Phrack / article / 1987
More Stupid Unix Tricks
Shooting Shark · Issue/event 15
- Phrack / article / 1986
Nasty Unix Tricks
Shooting Shark · Issue/event 6
- Phrack / article / 1986
Trojan Horses in Unix
Shooting Shark · Issue/event 7