@dreadcode

Tortures computers for fun and profit. Interested in network security monitoring, machine learning, Golang and Rust. Shellscript ninja. Will debug for food.

 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
github.com/dreadl0ck
Joined June 2017
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Published my Bachelor Thesis: "Implementation and evaluation of secure and scalable anomaly-based network intrusion detection" along with my network traffic analysis framework: github.com/dreadl0ck/netcap #golang #IDS #NSM #DeepLearning #ML

GitHub - dreadl0ck/netcap: A framework for secure and scalable network traffic analysis - https:/...

A framework for secure and scalable network traffic analysis - https://netcap.io - dreadl0ck/netcap

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Curios about the impact of this on the Go compiler and the security implications? Read my blogpost :) dreadl0ck.net/posts/faster-b…

Faster builds on macOS: a good idea? - Philipp Mieden

Explore how to speed up Go and Rust compilation on macOS by bypassing XProtect checks. Includes benchmarks, security implications, and performance analysis of Developer Tools exemption.

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Daniel Lockyer
@DanielLockyer24 Dec 2025
TIL that macOS has a security feature called XProtect, which scans any new binaries you execute But it also means it slows down edit-compile-run workflows with excessive checking And the daemon is single threaded, so concurrent binary executions are blocked good lord
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Replying to @kylancodes @fofrAI @replicate
Have a similar effect at dreadl0ck.net but yours definitely wins 😆

Philipp Mieden

Philipp Mieden - Security and Network Engineer specializing in cybersecurity, network analysis, Go programming, and open source tools. Based in Amsterdam.

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Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/At…

Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I | evilsocket

Hello friends, this is the first of two, possibly three (if and when I have time to finish the Windows research) writeups. We will start with targeting GNU/Lin…

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I'm glad everyone has discovered memory safe languages after several decades. Now can we start looking at secure package management or are we just going to import memory safe rando libs from ninja876 on Github forever?
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My dystopian vision of an AI-powered future is that LLMs drives down the cost of generating long text even further, and the only way for readers to keep up is to use LLMs to summarize.
Christian Keil
@pronounced_kyle22 Sep 2023
Okay here's a ridiculous (but true) take: word processing is bad. Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text. After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts.
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Guest: “Is that a RAM stick glued to your door?” Me: “Yes. Old memories.”
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Best security quote I heard this week: "Do you want to mitigate against an auditor, or against an attacker?"
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Finally, a book for dealing with those rusty locks 🔒 thanks @m_ou_se
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Bellingcat
@bellingcat24 Oct 2022
Bellingcat and investigative partners @derspiegel and @the_ins_ru have discovered a hitherto secretive group of engineers involved in Russian missile strikes on Ukraine. These strikes have killed hundreds and left millions without heating or power bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-e…

The Remote Control Killers Behind Russia’s Cruise Missile Strikes on Ukraine - bellingcat

Bellingcat has identified a secretive group of Russian military engineers involved in missile strikes on Ukraine.

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Awesome 👏 go.dev/blog/vuln
You can force any v8/Electron process to execute arbitrary js code (child_process, http, etc) by forcefully enabling and abusing the builtin debug mechanism ... here's VS Code executing Calc, but I suspect any Electron app is susceptible 🔥 it works with SIP enabled on macOS
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Replying to @BadgeteamNL
@BadgeteamNL thanks for the great #MCH2022 badge - here's my Music Computing Handheld app, to be found in the Hatchery in ESP32 - Games. Happy soloing
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Maltego@MaltegoHQ4 Apr 2022
Do you know you can set up a custom Transform server in #Maltego? The #DittoTRX Transform developed by @dreadcode can be used to investigate #IDNHomographAttack and imposter domain on various websites. Learn how to set it up here: maltego.com/blog/dittotrx-a-…

DittoTRX: A Maltego Transform Server for IDN Homograph Attacks - Part 1 Setting Up

This article walks you through the setup and code of the new DittoTRX data integration for Maltego, developed by our Academic and Non-Profit Program participant Philipp Mieden.

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Replying to @MattJamesBoyle @matryer
Have you tried turning your program off and on again?
However, the homoglyph function example is not detected
Pretty cool that @github warns about the use of bidirectional unicode text in source code! Nice feature
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The Trojan Source vulnerability allows supply-chain attacks on software written in C, C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Python and Rust. We're releasing details after a 99-day coordinated disclosure period, and some of these compilers will be patched quickly. See lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021…
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Wow, just realized C is turning 50 next year. Not sure how to tell students that we're learning about security problems caused by a language that's half a century old.
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Nasko Oskov@nasko21 Sep 2021
Memory safety in a huge codebase is hard. We've published some work and an update on our work in the Chromium codebase - security.googleblog.com/2021….

An update on Memory Safety in Chrome

Adrian Taylor, Andrew Whalley, Dana Jansens and Nasko Oskov, Chrome security team Security is a cat-and-mouse game. As attackers innovate...

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Replying to @cynicalsecurity @veorq
Alice and Bob are now securely divorced.
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