Sergio de los Santos The Attack on SolarWinds Reveals Two Nightmares: What Has Been Done Right and What Has Been Done Wrong All cyber security professionals now know at least part of what was originally thought to be “just” an attack on SolarWinds, which has just truned out to be one...
Sergio de los Santos Tell Me What Data You Request from Apple and I Will Tell You What Kind of Government You Are We recently found out that Spain sent 1,353 government requests for access to Facebook user data in the first half of 2020. Thanks to Facebook’s transparency report for the...
Sergio de los Santos A Simple Explanation About SAD DNS and Why It Is a Disaster (or a Blessing) In 2008, Kaminsky shook the foundations of the Internet. A design flaw in the DNS made it possible to fake responses and send a victim wherever the attacker wanted....
Sergio de los Santos How Traditional CA’s Are Losing Control of Certificates and Possible Reasons Why Chrome Will Have a New Root Store It’s all about trust. This phrase is valid in any field. Money, for example, is nothing more than a transfer of trust, because obviously we trust that for a...
Sergio de los Santos What Do Criminals in the Ransomware Industry Recommend so that Ransomware Does Not Affect You? We all know the security recommendations offered by professionals on malware protection. Frequently: use common sense (personally, one of the least applicable and abstract pieces of advice that can...
Sergio de los Santos Conti, the Fastest Ransomware in the West: 32 Parallel CPU Threads, but… What for? Conti, the fastest ransomware, is just one example of how this threat is evolving. Discover what tricks it uses and why in this article.
Sergio de los Santos OpenPGP: Desperately Seeking Kristian Open Source applications run on a server system that has never worked properly. Why does this happen?
Sergio de los Santos More and Shorter Certificates with a Lower Lifetime: Where Is TLS Going to? Cryptography is undergoing a renewal of all that is established. Know about all the events that are transforming the way the web works in this article.
Sergio de los Santos Apple introduces up to 14 signatures in XProtect given the malware flood for Mac What is Apple doing about Shlayer malware? We analyze the main tools that MacOS is using to face this threat.
Sergio de los Santos New App to Clean Metadata More Easily We are not going to repeat the dangers of metadata, since it has been discussed for quite some time now. However, we can try to make its management and cleaning simpler. Some...
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...
Florence Broderick HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
Florence Broderick How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...
