Tag Archives: Software Security

KringleCon / Holiday Hack 2021 Writeup

Another SANS Holiday Hack Challenge & Kringle (2021) CTF done. Please find my writeup for this awesome & fun CTF. I will continue to work on the few missing challenges so expect updates ASAP. PDF MD5: 51bc75a10e1de548de2adef974a36201 Report Download Enjoy … Continue reading

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The Ten Top Computer Science Papers You Must Read

Alan Turing (1937) On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem Vannevar Bush (1945) As We May Think Claude Elwood Shannon (1948) A Mathematical Theory of Communication Alan Turing (1950) COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE THOMAS J. McCABE (1976) A … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Heartbleed: pain, blood and code

All alarms went off last week when a serious security flaw called Heartbleed in the OpenSSL cryptographic library was published. This library is used by a large part of the servers on the Internet as well as much security software. … Continue reading

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VULNEX Award and RSA USA speaker experience!

February has been both very interesting and busy! On February 17th I had the pleasure of collecting the first award of VULNEX by Spanish security magazine Red Seguridad for IT Innovation for our collaboration with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects … Continue reading

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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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