A concept to a product (Kimidori [ 黄緑])

A concept to a product (Kimidori [ 黄緑]) - Part 3

The previous post explored the report part of the malicious link(s) with as many details as possible. So far the tool can be used any number of times to figure out whether a link is malicious or safe to use. Kimidori [ 黄緑] is not limited to only malicious link detection. This tool can be leveraged to detect the browsers installed on the system along with their executable as well as cookie path. So, far it can detect the following browsers if present / installed in the system.

1. Brave

2. Chrome

3. Edge

4. Firefox

5. Ice Dragon

6. Opera

7. SeaMonkey

8. Vivaldi

9. and WaterFox

Support for other browsers will be given eventually.

Here is a glimpse of the page where it shows the browser details fetched by the tool:

More browser support will be added soon along with cookie analysis for the user to let the user know what kind of cookies gets created by surfing the internet web pages by different browsers. This part will revisit soon.

Along with browser-related stuff, this tool also digs into Windows and gets the list of security software got installed into the system and their status.

A glimpse of the details fetched from Windows Security Center:

In the next post will see more features. (To be continued... )

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Reversing char array without splitting the array to tokens

I was reading about strdup, a C++ function and suddenly an idea came to my mind if this can be leveraged to aid in reversing a character array without splitting the array into words and reconstructing it again by placing spaces and removing trailing spaces. Again, I wanted an array to be passed as a function argument and an array size to be passed implicitly with the array to the function. Assumed, a well-formed char array has been passed into the function. No malformed array checking is done inside the function. So, the function signature and definition are like below: Below is the call from the client code to reverse the array without splitting tokens and reconstructing it. Finally, copy the reversed array to the destination. For GNU C++, we should use strdup instead _strdup . On run, we get the following output: Demo code

XOR (Exclusive OR) for branchless coding

The following example shows the array reversing using the XOR operator . No need to take any additional variable to reverse the array. int main(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { char str[] = "I AM STUDENT"; int length = strlen(str); for(int i = 0; i < ((length/2)); i++) { str[i] ^= str[length - (1+i)]; str[length - (1+i)] ^= str[i]; str[i] ^= str[length - (1+i)]; } cout << str << endl; return 0; } The above example is one of the uses of XOR but XOR comes in handy when we can do branchless coding methods like butterfly switch etc. Sometimes this is very effective in speeding up the execution. Let's see one of the uses of XOR in branchless coding. I am taking a simple example of Y = | X |. Yes, I am generating abs of a supplied number. So, my function signature/definition in C++ looks like below: int absoluteBranch( int x) { if (x < 0 ) { return -x; } else { retur

Power of Two

I n this post will be discussing how to calculate if a number is a power of two or not. As an example, 8 is a power of two but the number 10 is not. There are many ways we can solve this. First , we will take an approach which is simple and iterative. In this case, we will calculate the power of two one by one and check with the supplied number. The below code illustrates it. bool isPowerofTwo(unsigned num) { auto y = 1; while (0 != y) { if (num == y) return true; if (num < y) return false; y <<= 1; } return false; } Second , assuming, the number is a 32-bit number, this is also an iterative solution. In this scenario, iterating all bits and counting the set bits. Any number which is a power of 2 will have only one bit set and the rest will be zeros. As an example, 8 in binary representation is 1000. Using this observation, we can implement an iterative solution. bool isPowerofTwo(unsigned num) { auto one_count = 0; for (auto index = 0; index < 32;

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