Article Reverse engineering virtual machine protected binaries In code obfuscation, a virtual machine is a mechanism used to execute a different instruction set than the one used by machine that runs the…
Article How Harmful Can a Data Breach Be? There is this belief that businesses that have suffered a data security breach very often do not recover. But is that really so? What does it take…
Article Top 5 snapchat security vulnerabilities How the app learned its lessons Snapchat is a popular mobile application that allows instant photo and video messaging. The feature that…
Article Beta Bot Analysis: Part 2 Extracting the Botnet Configuration: The bot configuration is encrypted inside the bot and decrypted while the bot is running. In 1.0.2.5, 1.5 and…
Article QARK – A tool for automated android app assessments There has been a need for automated tools for Android Application Assessments for quite some time. Though there are some frameworks here and there,…
Article Top 5 Cyber Security Awareness Tips [download]Download the BEST PRACTICES FOR DEVELOPING AN ENGAGING SECURITY AWARENESS PROGRAM whitepaper[/download] Are you worried about cyber…
Article General HTML5 Security, Part 2 To read the first part of the General HTML5 Security series, please visit: /general-html5-security/ In the second part of the General HTML5 Security…
Article Cyber-Attack on Worldwide Nuclear Facilities Critical infrastructure under attack The protection of critical infrastructure is a pillar of the cyber security strategy of any government.…
Article Ashley Madison Revisited: Legal, Business and Security Repercussions Forward Timeline of Ashley Madison data breach For Ashley Madison, the whole mess began on the morning of July 12, 2015, when several employees…
Article Windows exploit suggester – An easy way to find and exploit windows vulnerabilities During our penetration testing engagements, we often come across the situations where we need to find the right exploits to escalate the privileges…
Article Checklist for Hiring a Good Web Penetration Tester or Web App Security Consultant The task of a web security tester or penetration tester is of course to audit the security of the web applications, web services, and web servers in…
Article MES Security: What can we learn from the Volkswagen Recalls? [download]Download the BEST PRACTICES FOR DEVELOPING AN ENGAGING SECURITY AWARENESS PROGRAM whitepaper[/download] I decided to write this article…
Article Privacy Risks of Household Robots: 5 Security Risks and 10 Steps to Protect Yourself Section 1. Introduction As a result of the rapidly developing robotics industry, more and more families worldwide integrate robots in their…
Article How to prevent web scraping Web scraping is a widely used technique that transforms unstructured data on the web (HTML) into structured data which can be stored in a database…
Article Hacking ZigBee networks What is ZigBee? Internet of Things (IoT) is what most experts consider as the next step of the Internet revolution where physical objects are…
Article LibreSSL: The Secure OpenSSL Alternative This paper seeks to compare OpenSSL and LibreSSL as the main encryption library for production environments
Article Smartwatch – A Fashionable and Dangerous Gadget 10 Tips to Protect Your Smartwatch Section 1. Introduction Although the market for smartwatches is still in its infancy, there has been a steady…
Article EMV and Threat Intelligence in the Prevention of Payment Card Frauds Current Scenario Credit card data are a precious commodity in the criminal ecosystem, the number of data breaches involving payment card data…
Article Windows 10 Security Windows 10 was launched on July 29th of this year and had been adopted by 75 million users by the end of August. Despite its initial popularity, the…
Article Virtual Assistants: Here to Stay or Data Security Risks? Cardiff University and IBM have been working on creating a new virtual assistant (VA) software that can interact with its owner in a more human-like…
Article American Government Cyber-Insecurities and Initiatives Digital telecommunications represent a real danger today for governments, as their systems are being probed for weaknesses daily by a number of…
Article Vulnerability Management Vulnerability management plays an important part in establishing a secured network. It includes identifying, analyzing and rectifying the flaws that…
Article Password Security: Efficient Protection of Digital Identities Section 1. Introduction Almost all devices we own and online accounts we create deploy an authorization system, a crucial element of personal data…
Article SpyderSec Challenge Here is another interesting challenge we are going to solve. The vulnerable machine's name is SpyderSec. We hosted the machine in VirtualBox and…
