Reading about Linux commands never made me job-ready. So I stopped reading — and built a night-shift surveillance post instead. Here’s the…

There is an interesting way to escalate privileges if we have sudo permissions to execute /usr/bin/make install -C on a directory where we…

Escape a restricted shell, use SUID binaries, and uncover passwords hidden in Git history and branches.

Discover hidden Git tags, push files to a remote repository, and escape the uppercase shell to complete Bandit.

Task 2 — File Analysis

Canonical recently unveiled its latest interim distribution. As detailed in the official Ubuntu 26.10 release announcement, this non-LTS build offers nine months of active support through July 202…

Kernel Maintainers Vote to Retire the Tag At the Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit on October 8, attendees agreed to scrap the Assisted-by tag in patches. On October 14, the related revert patch lan…

The Case: Seven Minutes on the Seine

A hands on hardening baseline you can finish before your coffee gets cold, with a command that proves every single step worked.

A critical architectural flaw in the Linux IPv4 network stack allows unprivileged guest machines to escape isolation. Specifically, threat actors can seize total root control over the underlying p…