“I love hacking can be used for the greater good.” During the Solothurn Film Festival 2020 we had the opportunity to meet Jim McKay, who directed, among others, two episodes for Mr. Robot season one. Jim had also time for a short interview. What is important for you working as a director/writer? Jim McKay: I […]
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Introduction Last Friday and Saturday (15./16. June 2018), the 6th edition of the security conference Area41 (formerly Hashdays, https://area41.io/) organized by DEFCON Switzerland (https://www.defcon-switzerland.org/, https://twitter.com/defconCH) took place in Zürich. Every Compass security analyst can attend two conferences every year supported by Compass. So most of the analysts decided to go to the Area41 this year […]
We are at the Area 41 conference! This IT Security Conference is happening on the 15/16th of June in 2018 in Zürich. Compass Security supports this non-profit event as Platinum Sponsor. We’ll have a Compass Booth where we discuss current topics with you – and how you can join our team as ethical hacker! The […]
This year three Compass analysts, Stephan Sekula, Dobin Rutishauser, and Philipp Promeuschel, attended the BlackHat and DefCon
Last Friday a little more than a dozen Compass Security Analysts traveled to Geneva and attended the Insomnihack conference and its CTF. Conference The conference featured a variety of topics, ranging from areas such as corporate IT security, distributed systems and malware analysis, or even unusual topics such as remote exploitation of game engines. DevOOPS: Attacks […]
What is CodeMash? CodeMash is a conference for software developers and IT security professionals. It takes place every year in Sandusky, Ohio, in the U.S. The event consists of two parts: two days of training sessions (called “PreCompiler”), followed by two days of conference with sessions. It attracts about 3’000 visitors and takes place in […]
At the beginning of August, as every year, two of our security analysts attended the most renowned IT security conferences Black Hat USA and DEF CON to learn about the latest trends and research. This year’s Black Hat conference, the 19th edition, took place at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center while DEF CON 24 was located […]
Cross-Site Scripting is harmless? Think again! Cross-Site Scripting, oftentimes referred to as “XSS”, is a common vulnerability of web applications. This vulnerability refers to the incorrect behavior of a web application to insufficiently encode user provided data when displaying it back to the user. If this is the case, attackers are able to inject malicious […]
Compass Security proudly announces its nomination for the Prix SVC (Swiss Venture Club) award 2016. Out of 180 companies, Compass Security was selected as one of the most innovative companies in the eastern region of Switzerland. Because the award ceremony is being broadcasted by TVO, we had to slip into a tuxedo and play the […]
Being a security analyst at Compass Security is an interesting thing, no doubt. Besides interesting projects, there is plenty of know-how transfer and interactions between the employees. For example, each year, all security analysts come together for an event called Come’n’Hack Day. During this year’s event, they had the pleasure to perform an attack/defense hacking contest […]
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