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Author Archives: Simon Roses
Hacker Entertainment for COVID-19 Times
We are facing an extraordinary and very serious situation, so it is necessary for the population to stay at home. Fortunately we live in the information age and many of us hackers are used to being locked up at home … Continue reading
Posted in Pentest, Security, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged COVID-19, COVID19, hacker, Hacking, Information Security, Penetration Testing
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October, European Cyber Security Month 2018: Success or Failure?
Last October was the European Cyber Security Month 2018, an campaign aiming at increasing cyber security awareness across EU citizens promoted by ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security), each October for the last 5 years. Kudos ENISA. … Continue reading
Posted in Privacy, Security, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Breach, CyberSecurity, Information Security, Leak
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Book Review: PoC||GTFO
Yes, I’m back to blogging and doing a book review. I guess better late than never 🙂 This time I’m reviewing the holy hacker book: International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out (PoC||GTFO, ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-880-9). The book sums … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Pentest, Privacy, Security, Technology
Tagged Book, exploit, Information Security, Penetration Testing, Poc||GTFO, Software Security
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Mirai DDoS Botnet: Source Code & Binary Analysis
Mirai is a DDoS botnet that has gained a lot of media attraction lately due to high impact attacks such as on journalist Brian Krebs and also for one of the biggest DDoS attacks on Internet against ISP Dyn, cutting … Continue reading
Posted in Privacy, Security, Technology
Tagged attack vector, botnet, DDoS, IoT, Linux, malware, Mirai
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Fristileaks 1.3 CTF Writeup
This vulnerable VM is a fun and simple CTF that can be downloaded from the awesome portal VulnHub. Note: For vmware you may need to set the MAC address to 08:00:27:A5:A6:76 to get it working. I did, see Fig 1. … Continue reading
Posted in Pentest, Security, Technology
Tagged CTF, CyberSecurity, hacker, Penetration Testing, Python, recon
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Equation APT analysis using Security Data Science platform: BinSecSweeper
As many readers already know, at VULNEX we have been working on our BinSecSweeper project whose development began in 2013 thanks to an award by US DARPA within its pilot program Cyber Fast Track (CFT) and we were the only … Continue reading
Posted in Privacy, Security, Technology
Tagged Application Security, APT, BigData, BinSecSweeper, CyberSecurity, Data Science, Software Security, VULNEX
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A Security Breach Can Hurt You, More Than You Think!
Week after week we read about security breaches in top websites around the world, where millions of user’s data are exposed and the company not even reply with an apology. Until now nobody in management (your typical C-level) assumed any … Continue reading
Posted in Security, Technology
Tagged attack vector, Breach, CyberSecurity, Information Security
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Race to 0day in Nation State Operating Systems
Operating System change is coming… We all know that Windows still dominates the desktop arena with Linux and MacOS trying to catch up and that Android dominates the mobile space with iOS and Windows Phone trying to catch up as … Continue reading
Posted in Privacy, Security, Technology
Tagged attack vector, Computer Network Operations (CNO), exploit, Intelligence, Software Security
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Cyber Intelligence Universe
In recent years all “cyber” is fashionable, and intelligence applied to the cyber world could not be less! The concept of intelligence has an offensive meaning due to the use by intelligence and military agencies, but now too many security … Continue reading
Theoretical attacks on a Sex Robot: Roxxxy
The True Companion company markets for the last few years the first robot to have sex with: Roxxxy. Unfortunately it is not possible to find too much information about the technical features of the robot on the company website, but … Continue reading
