Hello everyone and welcome, after nearly 2 months of inactivity on this blog. It has been a hard time, a time of insecurity, which I am sure everyone sometimes has.…
A blog about IT, security and whatever crosses my mind
Hello everyone and welcome, after nearly 2 months of inactivity on this blog. It has been a hard time, a time of insecurity, which I am sure everyone sometimes has.…
One day I was reading on phone malware that covertly tries to record audio, and wondered why there is no such discussion on desktop computers. I thought about WebRTC, the…
One of the most useful tools in a hacker’s toolbox is a password cracker. Passwords are everywhere to protect systems, and sometimes, when there is no way around them, one…
I did it. My very first academic journal publication is online! It is my second publication about Android security, this time specifically targeting clickjacking attacks on mobile devices. The original…
For my thesis I researched a lot of resources regarding honeypots, including a number of open-source softwares. Before I clean up my bookmark bar and remove those references, I thought…
This year 2018 has been a challenging year, at least for me. I worked a lot to achieve what could be the unreachable goal of getting a PhD position at…
Playing around with privilege escalation techniques on my Linux box, I stumbled across an interesting exploitation method that can be used to get root privileges from a regular user account…
One of the most popular hacking requests, besides “how to hack facebook”, is how to gain access to protected WiFi networks. Many years ago, this was an easy task, as…
In the field of criminal investigations, it is often necessary to search for evidence on electronic devices. Digital traces can be found on computers, tablets, phones, USB drives, but also…
If you happen to own a Linux system, I am sure you already searched for solutions to problems on the Internet, only to find smart people that wrote down the…