ElevenPaths The base rate fallacy or why antiviruses, antispam filters and detection probes work worse than what is actually promised Before starting your workday, while your savoring your morning coffee, you open your favorite cybersecurity newsletter and an advertisement on a new Intrusion Detection System catches your attention: THIS IDS...
ElevenPaths The hugest collection of usernames and passwords has been filtered…or not (I) Sometimes, someone frees by mistake (or not) an enormous set of text files with millions of passwords inside. An almost endless list of e-mail accounts with their passwords or...
ElevenPaths The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
ElevenPaths CapaciCard: an Elevenpaths’ own physical technology materializing simple identification and authorization Can you imagine to be able to authenticate or authorize a payment just by placing a plastic card on your mobile phone screen? (without circuitry, neither NFC connection nor...
ElevenPaths A story about two minds: the vast difference between real and perceived risk “In our society it is generally not considered justifiable to make a decision purely on an emotional response. We want to be considered scientific and rational, so we come up with...
ElevenPaths Rock appround the clock, our research in DEFCON In the world of Threat Intelligence, determining the attacker’s geographical location of is one of the most valuable data for attribution techniques, even if not perceived like that, this...
ElevenPaths CryptoClipWatcher, our new tool against crypto clipboard hijacking techniques Since 2017, this technique is becoming quite popular. Cryptocurrency in general is a new target for malware, and mining Bitcoins is not profitable anymore in regular computers (maybe Monero...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Army Launches Direct Commissioning Program for Civilian Cybersecurity Experts The Army has approved a program to recruit experienced cybersecurity experts directly into the service as cyber officers in an attempt to bolster a growing field that military leaders...
ElevenPaths Breaking Out HSTS (and HPKP) on Firefox, IE/Edge and (possibly) Chrome. Our Black Hat research We have been for a long time researching about HSTS, HPKP, certificate pinning and TLS technologies in general. As a collateral effect of this work, we have found some...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Injection and XSS, the Most Critical Web Application Security Risks The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has just updated the top ten list of web app vulnerabilities for the first time since 2013 but not much has actually...
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…...
