Iskander Sanchez-Rola
Founder/Content Director
Expertise: Web Security and Privacy
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Spear Phishing, adapting hooks to targets

Although many of you may have heard of phising, even been victims of some in the worst case, you are not so familiar with the next evolutionary step: spear phishing. Starting from the ground up, phishing is based on fooling

Capture The Flag, making hacking a game

It is possible to spend a fun weekend with friends hacking like there is no tomorrow, and of course I mean doing it completely legally. All this is thanks to the different CTFs that are organized throughout the year. These

Interview with Jaime Andrés Restrepo (@DragonJAR)

Jaime is one of the great references in security of the information of Latin America, and of the Spanish-speaking world in general. He has been working in the area for more than 10 years, specifically in ethical hacking, pentesting and

A denial of service is worth thousands of requests

Denial of Service (DOS) attacks are one of the most commonly used digital “weapons” for many purposes today. Some of its uses are blackmail, control of competitors, power test or deviation of attention. The concept of denial of service is

That malware knows that they are watching it

It is extremely common for advanced malware not only to hide its code with different packers, but also to try to detect if it is being analyzed dynamically through a sandbox. If they realize that they are watching it, they

When money was not everything in malware

Although for many it’s hard to believe, there was a time when malware was not a tool created to generate as much money as possible. The main motivations of those old-school hackers were such earthly things as fun or some