I have been a cloud storage user for years. I started with Dropbox, which offered over 100GB of drive space for free, through a number of promotions and collaborations (e.g.…
A blog about IT, security and whatever crosses my mind
I have been a cloud storage user for years. I started with Dropbox, which offered over 100GB of drive space for free, through a number of promotions and collaborations (e.g.…
WordPress is a rather popular publishing software, and as such, it is an attractive target for attackers. A lot of websites use it, lots of websites do not have the…
WordPress is a widely used software for websites, blogs and landing pages. The setup of WordPress is pretty easy and straight-forward even for non-technical users, and users can host their…
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…