Category Archives: Pentest

Enterprise Computer Security must CHANGE

Last week I had the pleasure of giving a talk entitled “Cyber Security: time for change” on my vision of corporate cyber security posture during an event organized by Page Personnel Spain (thanks for having me!), and I already advance … Continue reading

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AppSecUSA & BinSecSweeper Talk

Last week the OWASP AppSecUSA 2013 conference was held in the legendary New York City , where I had the pleasure of giving a talk on security software development title “Verify Your Software for Security Bugs” and present my new … Continue reading

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Book Review: iOS Hacker’s Handbook

I have been wanting to read this book for a long time, finally I managed to make time and I have to admit that it has exceeded my expectations. This magnificent work written by reputed experts in iOS, one of … Continue reading

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AppSec: Myths about Obfuscation and Reversing Python

Python is an easy and powerful programming language that allows us to write sophisticated programs: Dropbox and BitTorrent are excellent examples. It is common that Python programs are delivered in source code, but in some cases different techniques like obfuscation … Continue reading

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A Spanish startup selected by the DARPA Cyber Fast Track (CFT)

The security landscape changed in August 2011 at the Black Hat Conference when the legendary hacker of the L0pht Peiter “Mudge” Zatko presented the new program Cyber Fast Track (CFT) (DARPA-PA-11-52) from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the … Continue reading

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What’s the point of reporting 0day?

In the last weeks the news related to PRISM has not stopped since leaked by Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense contractor for the NSA. One interesting outcome of these leaks is the NSA access to … Continue reading

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A tale of Government Trojans

Sorry, only in Spanish 🙂 — Simon Roses Femerling

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AppSec: Build Rooted Detection in your App

For various reasons many Apps need to detect if the phone has been “rooted” and in this article will see different techniques for this purpose. Since it is common to see this type of questions in development forums, I thought … Continue reading

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OSINT + Python = Custom Hacking

Last May 10 and 11 the course of Computer Forensic Expert was held in Reus (Spain) by the Asociación Nacional de Tasadores y Peritos Judiciales Informáticos (ANTPJI), which I am member and one of the instructors, where I had the … Continue reading

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My 10 Cyber Weapons Tool List

Few weeks ago the media did publish that the US Air Force has classified 6 tools as cyber weapons, no doubt a hot topic. For this post I will do the same and put a list of 10 tools that … Continue reading

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