SEC Consult supports global standardization and certification initiatives
- On 18. Jul 2019
Due to the increase and numerous types of cyber threats, the need for companies to constantly improve IT security is higher than ever before.
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Behind the scenes: Baltic Cyber Security Forum 2019
- On 7. Jun 2019
On a foggy, rainy morning of May 29th an umbrella was an essential tool for your personal protection. The Baltic Cyber Security Forum 2019 held in Vilnius, Lithuania attracted more than 500 attendees from different Lithuanian organizations to discuss the current topics, trends and solutions in the cyber security field.
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DevDays 2019: How to bypass Web Application Firewalls
- On 7. Jun 2019
Mid-May the security industry travelled to Vilnius, Lithuania to attend the annual DevDays Europe Conference.
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SEC Business Breakfast: Rapid help after a cyber attack
- On 13. May 2019
Cybercrime has been a bitter reality and part of the everyday business life for some time. Stefan Prinz, head of SEC Defence, shed light on the world of hackers and their methods at the SEC Consult Business Breakfast in April 2019.
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Unsung Heroes: What it really means to be successful in IT security
- On 2. May 2019
Johannes Greil, Principal Security Consultant and head of the SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab gives an insight into the exciting world of security research.
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Windows Privilege Escalation – an approach for penetration testers
- On 18. Apr 2019
A pentesting expert reveals the necessary knowledge about Windows components and appropriate security mechanisms to perform attacks on the rights extension.
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Pentesting: Benefits, Legal Compliance and Costs
- On 8. Apr 2019
Vulnerabilities in everyday products such as smart appliances, routers and other connected devices often make the news and users start to question the underlying procedures (or lack thereof) to secure their private information. Learn how pentesting can be an important and efficient method to improve the security level of networks and various applications.
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Reverse Engineering Architecture and Pinout of Custom ASICs
- On 26. Feb 2019
Learn about the process of initial reverse engineering the pinout of unknown ASICs by using moderate methods. The two described ICs are good examples out of many industry-solutions and have been chosen to demonstrate how design decisions from vendors are made. The exploited potential leak of the supply-chain can be leveraged by a hardware reverse engineer to extract internal information about such systems.
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One Hack of a Valentine: when IoT gets under your skin
- On 14. Feb 2019
Smart sex toys are really no fun if hacked...
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Cryptographic Vulnerabilities in German e-Government Library
- On 5. Feb 2019
The OSCI-Transport Library is a software component used by many German government agencies to securely exchange data via the OSCI-Transport protocol. This Java library was susceptible to two attacks that could potentially allow an attacker to bypass some of the OSCI-Transport protocol's core security promises.
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