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A few handy tips for downloading videos with yt-dlp

· 4 min read
Thai Trinh
Cybersecurity Student @ UIT

If you often need to save videos from YouTube, Facebook, or TikTok - without watermarks - or even grab files from Google Drive that the owner has disabled downloads for, yt-dlp is a powerful tool worth knowing. In this post, I'll walk you through how to set it up and use it effectively on Windows.

(If you're on Linux or macOS, the steps are similar - just check your platform's installation guide.)

A deep dive into Windows TypedPaths

· 5 min read
Thai Trinh
Cybersecurity Student @ UIT

What if the Windows Registry kept a memory of every path you typed into Explorer? Typed Paths do exactly that-making them a goldmine for investigators tracking attacker movements.

Exploring DLL Side Loading: A practical walkthrough using Notepad++

· 6 min read
Thai Trinh
Cybersecurity Student @ UIT

In today's blog post, we're diving into DLL Side Loading - a technique often exploited by attackers to execute malicious code by abusing the way Windows searches for and loads dynamic link libraries. We'll break down how DLL Side Loading works, how the Windows DLL search order contributes to the vulnerability, and walk through a practical example using Notepad++ as our target application.