Many of our NVISO colleagues are very active during their free time. 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 […]
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Using binsnitch.py to detect files touched by malware
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 […]
NVISO at Hack Belgium
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! […]
Let’s get the team together…
It was the last week of April: 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 that the discovery of our destination was a fun team-building event by […]
Mitigation strategies against cyber threats
So it’s been a good 2 months since we have been in business! We thought we’d 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 […]