David García Will Rust save the world? (II) We saw in the previous article the problems of manual memory management, but also the pitfalls of automatic memory management in languages like Java. But what if there was...
David García Will Rust save the world? (I) How Rust, the security-focused open source programming language, improves the outlook for memory error-based vulnerabilities
David García The new end of passwords Password, password, password... How many can you remember if you don't use a password manager? In fact, do you even use a password manager?
David García Where does ransomware attack? Three main pillars It all starts with a tweet from a researcher (Allan Liska from RecordedFuture) announcing that he is compiling a list of vulnerabilities currently being exploited by organised groups in...
David García What’s new in the OWASP 2021 ranking? OWASP, the foundation focused on web application security, has recently updated its ranking of the most prominent risks. Let’s take a look at the new reorganisation of the top,...
David García D3FEND, the other side of the ATT&CK coin We are already familiar with the ATT&CK project of the MITRE corporation. It is a de facto standard that helps us to characterise threats based on the techniques and...
David García The Malware Created in Go Is A Trend And Is Here To Stay Even though it cannot be said that Go is a new programming language (it is already more than ten years old), it does belong to that new batch of...
David García Bestiary of a Poorly Managed Memory (IV) What happens when we use uninitialized memory? Read this article and find out about the latest developments in memory management.
David García Bestiary of a Poorly Managed Memory (III) Our expert David Garcia explains some consequences of poor memory management such as dangling pointers or memory leaks.
David García Bestiary of a Poorly Managed Memory (II) Our expert David Garcia shows what happens when the same block of reserved memory is released twice, the so-called double free.
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths and the University of Piraeus in Greece work together using Tacyt as an educational and research unit ElevenPaths and the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus in Greece work together using Tacyt as an educational and research unit. ElevenPaths and the Department of Informatics of...
Florence Broderick "Not today downloaders": New downloaders techniques in Google Play Downloaders are not new in Android, but lately, they are getting more and more important for attackers as a method to avoid Google Play barriers and malware detection. In...
Florence Broderick Banking trojan I+D: 64 bits versions and using TOR Malware industry needs to improve and keep on stealing. So they research and invest. There are two different ways of investing if you are “in the business”: one is...
Florence Broderick Mobile banking and banking trojans During 2012 there was an increase around 28% in mobile banking or M-Banking operations. Users can access their bank accounts from their mobile devices, mainly making use of a specifically...
