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Could you clarify if this is a room on or Hack The Box , or perhaps a different site? pwnhack birds
: Originally a typo of "owned," it is slang for defeating an opponent or successfully compromising a computer system. In cybersecurity, being "pwned" means your personal information or account has been exposed in a data breach. But where’s the pwn
But where’s the pwn? That’s just a key. The pwn is: if we overflow past the heap buffer, we can overwrite the victory function pointer? No, no function pointers in struct. No, no function pointers in struct
in hacking communities — sometimes birds are used as metaphors in hacking (e.g., “shell birds,” “canary in a coal mine,” “tweet” as in Twitter → info leak, etc.)
Here is the "pwnhack" part: These avian drones are vulnerable.
