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Blogs | INSIGHTS | May 11, 2015

Vulnerability disclosure the good and the ugly

I can’t believe I continue to write about disclosure problems. More than a decade ago, I started disclosing vulnerabilities to vendors and working with them to develop fixes. Since then, I have reported hundreds of vulnerabilities. I often think I have seen everything, and yet, I continue to be surprised over and over again. I wrote a related blog post a year and a half ago (Vulnerability bureaucracy: Unchanged after 12 years), and I will continue to write about disclosure problems until it’s no longer needed.   Everything is…

Cesar Cerrudo
Blogs | INSIGHTS | January 21, 2014

Scientifically Protecting Data

This is not “yet another Snapchat Pwnage blog post”, nor do I want to focus on discussions about the advantages and disadvantages of vulnerability disclosure. A vulnerability has been made public, and somebody has abused it by publishing 4.6 million records. Tough luck! Maybe the most interesting article in the whole Snapchat debacle was the one published at www.diyevil.com [1], which explains how data correlation can yield interesting results in targeted attacks. The question then becomes, “How can I protect against this?” Stored personal data is always vulnerable to attackers…

Wim Remes
Blogs | INSIGHTS | October 21, 2013

NCSAM – Eireann Leverett on why magic is crucial

Late last week I had the pleasure of interviewing IOActive Labs CTO – Cesar Cerrudo on how he got into IT security. Today I am fortunate enough to have the pleasure of interviewing Eireann Leverett, a senior researcher for IOActive on this field and how magic played a part. IOActive: How did you get into security?   Eireann: Actually, I was very slow to get security as an official title for a job, it was only really in the last few years. However, I always knew that’s…

Eireann Leverett & Craig Brophy

Arm IDA and Cross Check: Reversing the 787’s Core Network

IOActive has documented detailed attack paths and component vulnerabilities to describe the first plausible, detailed public attack paths to effectively reach the avionics network on a 787, commercial airplane from either non-critical domains, such as Passenger Information and Entertainment Services, or even external networks.

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