Crucial for applying Active Directory Group Policy Objects, client-side extensions (CSEs) are powerful but also present a significant, often overlooked, attack vector for persistent backdoors. Rather ...

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Experts discovered several flaws in Comodo Antivirus, including a vulnerability that could allow to escape the sandbox and escalate privileges. The Tenable expert David Wells discovered five flaws in ...

(note " in the third line above is not an escaped double-quote, it is the closing quote of a pair) @ Note "By convention, argv[0] is the command with which the program is invoked. However, it is ...

On Windows systems, pdf2djvu parses argv[0] to determine the directory where the other tools it uses are stored. But this doesn't work if the main executable is within PATH and thus argv[0] doesn't ...

While Microsoft code may not have been involved in dropping files on the desktop, there are publicly available exploits that leveraged Microsoft code. Specifically, this was done through the use of ...

How to programatically get the executable path on FreeBSD? FreeBSD does not seem to have /proc like on linux, and argv[0] does not always contain full path to the executable.

I looked everywhere for something on this topic. It seems to be one of the undocumented applications of C++. Guess they firgure everyone knows how to do it. Could ask in a place like:<BR> ...