ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: The eternal dispute: backdoors and national security A bipartisan group of legislators from the house of representatives has introduced a piece of legistation which will prevent the federal government of the United States from demanding companies...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: From the bug bounties (traditional) to the data abuse bounties Social networks image The Internet giants are going to great lengths to be transparent with their communication about the information they are gathering from their users. In the case...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Tell me your social networks and you will be welcome in the United States (or maybe not) The US Department of State wants to ask visa applicants to provide details of their social networks which they have used within the last five years, as well as...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: PyeongChang Olympics: A New False Flag Attack? A postmortem of the Olympic Destroyer malware used in the PyeongChang Olympics attack reveals a deliberate attempt by adversaries to plant a false flags when it comes to attribution,...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Dude, Where Are My Bitcoins? Numerous types of attacks are affecting cryptocurrency users: families of malware that steal wallets, phishing attacks that try to forge platforms where users manage their bitcoins, applications that use...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Guess Riddle… How Is Information Stored In a Bitcoin Address? As we have seen in previous post on ElevenPaths blog, the OP_RETURN field of a Bitcoin transaction is used to store a small portion of information (up to 80...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: The Transparent Resolution of Vulnerabilities Is Everyone’s Business The new year has started with a story that has taken the covers of specialized and generalist media all around the world. The vulnerabilities named as Meltdown and Spectre...
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 Top of the app charts. Shuabang: automated malware made in China Have you ever wondered how some apps rocket up the charts so quickly? Sometimes you’ll spot one that seems like a curveball, like a pub rock covers band hitting...
Florence Broderick Faast already detects "Logjam": Imperfect Forward Secrecy Faast teams have been working all day long to add a new plugin to our list of detected vulnerabilities. There has been found a new security problem in TLS...
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...
