ElevenPaths Your feelings influence your perception of risk and benefit more than you might think Security is both a feeling and a reality —Bruce Schneier Daniel Gardner starts his book The Science of Fear with the shocking history of US September 11 attacks: And so in...
ElevenPaths Why you are late delivering all your projects and what you can do to address it Anyone who causes harm by forecasting should be treated as either a fool or a liar. Some forecasters cause more damage to society than criminals. —Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, 2007 In 1957,...
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (II) In the first part of this article we explained how Bayesian inference works. According to Norman Fenton, author of Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks: Bayes’ theorem is...
ElevenPaths New research: Docless Vietnam APT. A very interesting malware against Vietnam Government We have detected a malware sent to some email accounts belonging to a Vietnam government domain. This email is written in Vietnamese and is dated March 13th, 2019. It seems to...
ElevenPaths How to forecast the future and reduce uncertainty thanks to Bayesian inference (I) Imagine that you come back home from San Francisco, just arrived from the RSA Conference. You are unpacking your suitcase, open the drawer where you store your underwear and…...
ElevenPaths New research: we discover how to avoid SmartScreen via COM Hijacking and with no privileges COM Hijacking technique has a simple theoretical basis, similar to the DLL Hijacking one: What does it happen when an application searches for a non-existent COM object on the...
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 If you want to change your employees’ security habits, don’t call their will, modify their environment instead You’re in a coffee bar and you need to connect your smartphone to a Wi-Fi, so you check your screen and see the following options. Imagine that you know...
ElevenPaths Don’t confuse the frequency of an incident with the ease you remember it Imagine that there have been a few robberies in two parks of your town that have got all the attention for days. This afternoon you would like to go...
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…...
