Introduction Around mid-October we got a call from a reporter working on an article covering online privacy and social media. Rather than writing about others, the reporter wanted to have his own story. So, he asked NVISO to research him on-line, and find out as much as possible about him! Of-course, after agreeing on some … Continue reading Stalking a reporter – behind the scenes!
Three challenges to making passwords user-friendly Following the interview of Bill Burr, author of NISTās 2003 paper on Electronic Authentication, in which he announced that he regrets much of what he wrote, we stop and think. Why was the standard putting users at risk? Paraphrasing History: āTout pour le peuple; rien par le peupleā. Perfectly … Continue reading Donāt be lazy with P4ssw0rd$
Staying up to date with the latest hot topics in Security is a requirement for any Security Consultant. Going to conferences is a great way of doing this, as it also gives you the opportunity to speak to peers and get a good view into what the security industry and the researchers are up to. … Continue reading NVISO at DEF CON 25
This morning, I heard on the radio that dozens of Belgian families were being watched through their own home surveillance system in Belgium. Nothing new here, as we already know for years that sites exist through which you can watch camera footage of unknowing victims, and this problem is not just limited to Belgium of … Continue reading Who is watching your home surveillance systems?
During the first half of 2017 we had the pleasure of working with three bright interns assisting us on various projects ranging from developing an interactive training platform to creating challenges for the Cyber Security Challenge to working on improving our own IT environment. We asked them to let us know what they thought of … Continue reading A word from our interns Aras, Gaetan and Wouter!
Many of our NVISOĀ colleagues are very active during their free time.Ā We have colleagues who go mountain-biking, rock climbing, swimming, running, ... The problem is that during the day, they often sit at their desk for four hours straight, grab some lunch, and go back to their desk to sit and work at their computers. To … Continue reading MoveBot: Battling inactivity one micro-exercise at a time
Yesterday, we released binsnitch.py - a tool you can use to detect unwanted changes to the file sytem. The tool and documentation is available here: https://github.com/NVISO-BE/binsnitch. Binsnitch can be used to detect silent (unwanted) changes to files on your system. It will scan a given directory recursively for files and keep track of any changes it detects, based … Continue reading Using binsnitch.py to detect files touched by malware
Last week, a few of us attended the first edition of Hack Belgium. Describing what Hack Belgium is turns out to be a bit difficult: is it a conference? A hackaton? A hands-on workshop? A technology fair? A pitch? In my view, it's all of those combined - and that made the event so interesting! … Continue reading NVISO at Hack Belgium
It was the last week of April:Ā our entire NVISO team had packed their bags and was ready to board a plane. Where to? A secret location, to celebrate the achievements of our fantastic team ! Destination: unknown... From the very beginning, it became clear thatĀ the discovery of our destination was a fun team-building event by … Continue reading Letās get the team togetherā¦
So it's been a good 2 months since we have been in business! We thought weād to take some time to reflect on these two months, in which we've seen quite some interesting security news including the well-known Mandiant report on APT1 and the widespread Java chaos. Last week, ENISA published a "Flash Note" on Cyber … Continue reading Mitigation strategies against cyber threats
