Most people these days have a smartphone. These phones are actually no longer just mobile phones, in reality they are powerful mobile computers with several GB RAM, multicore CPUs and many GB storage. Despite these characteristics which bring them closer to computers than to phones, most of their users don’t consider security and privacy in […]
Source and credit: https://github.com/rshipp/awesome-malware-analysis I save it here for easier reference. Do note that this list grows a lot ! A curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources. Inspired by awesome-python and awesome-php. Awesome Malware Analysis Malware Collection Anonymizers Honeypots Malware Corpora Open Source Threat Intelligence Tools Other Resources Detection and […]
Not even a week has passed since I was writing about “Not yet worried about vehicle hacking? You should be!” and we see in the news that at Blackhat that exactly this is happening. At BlackHat USA this week, the security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek are scheduled to present their latest findings in the world […]
As a matter of fact, it is not only vehicles that can be hacked, actually any IoT device can be hacked. AV-Test.org published this paper about vulnerabilities in the fitness wristbands and Apple Watch, which shows how they tested and how secure the devices are. However, a hack of these IoT devices is not as dangerous […]
I have finally found the time to make the app I always wanted to have for the “IT Security News” service. Here is the page on Google’s Play Store: And the screenshots of the app: Right now it is available only on Android devices, soon it will be available in the […]
Short version For those who are really, really, pissed off: Install FB Purity: http://www.fbpurity.com/ Open the FB Purity Facebook app by clicking on the word “FBP” near the search bar. Write in the main screen the word “pokemon” Save the configuration Enjoy your Pokemon free feed Longer version Go and install FB Purity from http://www.fbpurity.com/install.htm. […]
I wrote already about Ransomware (and here), but in a more generic way as I will do now. From me to me, with the subject “Documents from work” is the subject of a new Locky ransomware. Attached is a Word document containing macros. In the document (which is actually an archive) is a file called word\vbaProject.bin. […]
I found long time ago this animated GIF on the Internet and now I managed to download it. I don’t know who created it, so I can’t give credit to anyone. Why I post this here? Because it matters and because it is exactly my experience which I like to share. Not many know, but […]
Not a month passes without seeing some major car manufacturer that has cybersecurity issues. This month we have seen made public a report from February 2016 related to BMW. The short story The BMW ConnectedDrive Web portal was found to contain a vulnerability that could result in a compromise of registered or valid vehicle […]
There is a permanent discussion going on and I have seen quite a lot of answers. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) vs. REST (Representational State Transfer) Which one to use and when? Let’s see first the main characteristics of both: S.No SOAP REST 1. SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. REST stands for Representational State […]
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