Exploit kits, loved and hated in equal measure

Exploit kits are the cause of a large percentage of malware infections that occur nowadays. Depending on the side where you are, you will consider exploit kits a godsend or a hellish curse. They are toolsets to automatically exploit vulnerabilities on the client

Hardening binaries (II) – PIE

Following the classic compilation options of GCC to try to have more robust binary, in this post we will discuss the options and -fPIE -fpie that allows to compile executable as “Position Independent Executables” and makes their sections to be loaded in random

Autoscaling with Scryer from Netflix

More and more companies decide to host their services in the cloud. The advantage of a cloud providers is the hability to use only the resources we need at all times, rather than paying the cost of a fixed number of

Security Research (IV) – Contributions

In our previous posts of our series “Security Research” we saw how to make one of the first and most important step that both doctoral student and thesis director must carry out: the definition of the first general workplan. At this

Cybercrime and legal framework (IV)

Finally we address the 4th Section of Title XVIII, which is similarity to traditional crimes of documentary falsehoods in public/private documents (in its different variants). Equally we address those crimes that are committed in the exercise of the functions and duties of custody because

Cybercrime and legal framework (III)

We continue analyzing technological crimes from a legal point of view. This time based on economic and intellectual/industrial property actions. In this section (TÍTULO XIII, Delitos contra el patrimonio y contra el orden socioeconómico) fit habitual behaviors such as phishing,