Author Archives: Simon Roses

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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OWASP Top Ten 2013 free workshop

Yesterday, July 17th, I taught a free workshop about the OWASP Top Ten 2013 which was published recently that describes the 10 most common vulnerabilities in Web applications. This free workshop is a collaboration between the Catedral de Innovación of … Continue reading

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