Hacking Without a Single Line of Code - Return-Oriented Programming

Dane Brown drinks Jamaican Rum Punch while walking us through return-oriented programming

What if you could launch an attack without writing a single line of code? This week, we pour up a proper Jamaican rum punch with Dr. B Hacking and unpack Return-Oriented Programming, which is an old-school exploit technique still alive and kicking in the age of ASLR and NX. From stack smashing to chaining gadgets with surgical precision, this episode walks you through the evolution of buffer overflows and how hackers still bypass modern defenses using nothing but the target’s own code.

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