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Wiping & Protecting Data from SSD/Flash Drives
I received a comment from a reader of this blog (hi Ziyad!) about an very old article posted in 2008 (!) about tools to wipe files from drives. I reviewed a list of tools available on Linux (or other...
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Censorship Does Not Increase Security!
ENISA published in September 2009 a press release about the huge increase in ATM fraud. The title spoke by itself: “Annual cash machine looses in Europe approach EUR 500 million: ENISA provides advice...
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SCADA or Medical Devices, Insecure by Default?
SCADA systems are in front of the security scene for a few days since the disclosure of the Siemens default password story. SCADA stands for “Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition“. It’s a set of...
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BackTrack4-R1 + AWUS036NH = Win!
This is a long story… but it is finally solved thanks to the developers of the BackTrack distribution! For a long time, I used a good old Orinoco PCMCIA card to play around with WiFi networks. But it...
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Security: DIY or Plug’n'Play?
Appliance or not appliance? That is the question! A computer appliance is a dedicated hardware which runs software components to offer one of more specific services. Information security has always...
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Why Physical (Network) Security is Important?
When talking about security, companies often focus on the “security perimeter“. Inside this perimeter, you have the “good” guys and all the rest is considered as the “wild” world, the Internet. Once...
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XenServer & Port Mirroring
Blogs are made to provide valuable content to readers (well, I hope for my readers). This time, nothing related to security though… Recently, I built a new virtualization platform at home based on...
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Online Router Forensics Lab
When my friend Didier Stevens contacted me last year to help him with a BruCON 5×5 project, I simply could not decline! Didier developed a framework to perform forensic investigations on Cisco routers....
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My Little Pwnie Box
As a pentester, I’m always trying to find new gadgetstools to improve my toolbox. A few weeks ago, I received my copy of Dr Philip Polstra’s book: “Hacking and Penetration Testing with Low Power...
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The Evil Mouse Project
In March during TROOPERS’18, I discovered a very nice tiny device developed by Luca Bongiorni (see my wrap-up here): The WiFi HID Injector. Just to resume what’s behind this name, we have a small USB...
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