New iPhone 5S Fingerprint reader, a step in the right direction!
Apple has just announced two new models of iPhones, one of them is the iPhone 5S which comes with a fingerprint reader. Like others I believe this is no silver bullet, but it is a step in the right...
View ArticleUsing a phone as a keylogger, next it will be a smartwatch!
There is an interesting paper from Georgia Tech College describing a clever proof of concept where a phone is used to eavesdrop on keystrokes. This is done by leveraging the phone motion sensor...
View ArticleA new look
It seems I refresh the look of this website every 3 years and 3 years was up so here the new look :) I decided to go with a slick, low maintenance theme. It has also been a few months since I updated...
View ArticleApple Security in the Enterprise
There is a good document from the UK government describing the different security features available in Apple Mac OS X 10.8 and the ones you should consider if using a Mac as an enterprise end point:...
View ArticleBluetooth under attack
I have heard of Ubertooth for a while now and it seems it use to attack bluetooth devices keep growing. Once recent attack described HERE can leverage the Ubertooth sniffing capability to crack the...
View ArticleHeartbleed, do not panic!
The security issue related to OpenSSL has been all over the news in the last couple of days. It is indeed a very bad issue, one that can let an attacker access the login details, including passwords,...
View ArticleCritical Infrastructure and Cyber attacks
I recently came across an article on a UK newspaper, the Guardian, about Mt Kaspersky predicting a riot. Well, not exactly. He is predicting a major cyber terrorist attack on UK soil which will disrupt...
View ArticleiOS Backdoors
In the last few days there has been an increasing noise related to some iOS backdoors. Apple does not deny they exist, but contests how they can be used. This is not new, and the security researcher...
View ArticleBlackHat Europe 2014 – Some Highlights
Hacking conferences are a great way to learn he latest hacking techniques and more underground ways of thinking on IT Security. They complement nicely more corporate Security Training courses such as...
View ArticleSANS Brochure Challenge Write-Up
Last Summer SANS organised a security/hacking challenge through 4 of their brochures, each brochure had an “easy” challenge in the form of a hidden message to de-cipher to get a URL to the second level...
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