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Author Archives: Simon Roses
Theoretical attacks on a Sex Robot: Roxxxy
The True Companion company markets for the last few years the first robot to have sex with: Roxxxy. Unfortunately it is not possible to find too much information about the technical features of the robot on the company website, but … Continue reading
Heartbleed: pain, blood and code
All alarms went off last week when a serious security flaw called Heartbleed in the OpenSSL cryptographic library was published. This library is used by a large part of the servers on the Internet as well as much security software. … Continue reading
Posted in Pentest, Security, Technology
Tagged Application Security, attack vector, Information Security, Software Security
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Spaniards in the Black Hat ASIA
I’m back from Black Hat ASIA 2014 in Singapore, where I had the pleasure of giving a talk on the security of cross-platform mobile technologies for developing mobile apps. The last Black Hat ASIA was in 2008 and the last … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Pentest, Technology
Tagged Application Security, Apps, Conference, Penetration Testing, Reverse Engineering, Smartphone, VULNEX
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The need to evolve defensive security to offensive security
This morning I saw a job offer from Facebook looking for offensive security engineers and I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to explore this idea and its application in corporate security. Traditionally information security in enterprises has a … Continue reading
Posted in Pentest, Security
Tagged attack vector, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Offensive Security, Penetration Testing
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VULNEX Award and RSA USA speaker experience!
February has been both very interesting and busy! On February 17th I had the pleasure of collecting the first award of VULNEX by Spanish security magazine Red Seguridad for IT Innovation for our collaboration with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Privacy, Security, Technology
Tagged Application Security, BinSecSweeper, Conference, SDL, Software Security, VULNEX
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Enterprise Computer Security must CHANGE
Last week I had the pleasure of giving a talk entitled “Cyber Security: time for change” on my vision of corporate cyber security posture during an event organized by Page Personnel Spain (thanks for having me!), and I already advance … Continue reading
AppSecUSA & BinSecSweeper Talk
Last week the OWASP AppSecUSA 2013 conference was held in the legendary New York City , where I had the pleasure of giving a talk on security software development title “Verify Your Software for Security Bugs” and present my new … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Pentest, Security, Technology
Tagged Application Security, Apps, Information Security, Penetration Testing, Python, SDL, Software Security, VULNEX
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Book Review: iOS Hacker’s Handbook
I have been wanting to read this book for a long time, finally I managed to make time and I have to admit that it has exceeded my expectations. This magnificent work written by reputed experts in iOS, one of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Pentest, Security, Technology
Tagged apple, Application Security, Book, exploit, Fuzzing, iOS, Penetration Testing, Reverse Engineering, Smartphone
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AppSec: Myths about Obfuscation and Reversing Python
Python is an easy and powerful programming language that allows us to write sophisticated programs: Dropbox and BitTorrent are excellent examples. It is common that Python programs are delivered in source code, but in some cases different techniques like obfuscation … Continue reading
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Tagged Application Security, attack vector, Penetration Testing, Python, Reverse Engineering, Software Security
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Book Review: Mob Rules. What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman
While reading the book synopsis, we realize that this is not the typical book of how to succeed in business. Written by Louis Ferrante, former mobster of the Gambino family and converted writer, compare us the structure of the mafia … Continue reading
