Recently after moving the blog to this self-hosted platform I decided to cleanup a bit my feed reader… you know, add some, delete some. And while searching for blogs to subscribe to I came across Michal Zalewski’s website searching for a feed. Unfortunately didn’t find a feed, but did find his newest project…
An exploit (from the same word in the French language, meaning “achievement”, or “accomplishment”) is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerized). This frequently includes such things as violently gaining control of a computer system or allowing privilege escalation or a denial of service attack. (Wikipedia)