As in past years, Compass Security will participate in the upcoming CyberSec Conference in Yverdon-les-Bains (formerly Application Security Forum – Western Switzerland). This year, we will contribute in two events: First, Antoine Neuenschwander and Alexandre Herzog will conduct a day long training session on Tuesday, November 3rd. Participants will be able to exercise their skills […]
Earlier this month, my colleague Cyrill Bannwart and I held two Compass Security Beer Talk presentations in Bern and Jona about Windows Phone 8.1 security. The slides are now online and cover: Our (unsuccessful) black box attempts to break out from a Windows perspective A review of the implemented security features in Windows Phone 8.1 from a mobile perspective Our findings […]
On the last Saturday the 22nd of November, I attended BSidesVienna 2014 to deliver a talk about BurpSentinel. This tool is a Burp Suite extension giving better control over semi-automated requests sent to a given web application page. The presentation also covered aspects on automated Cross-Site Scripting and SQL injection detection. Despite talking early in the day (10 am), […]
Compass Security is working on an APT Detection Engine based on Splunk within the Hacking-Lab environment. Hacking-Lab is a remote training lab for cyber specialists, used by more then 22’000 users world-wide, run by Security Competence GmbH. An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a network attack in which an unauthorized person gains access to a network […]
Area41 (@a41con) is a security conference held in Switzerland. Its the successor of the highly successful Hashdays. Several Compass Security Switzerland employees volunteered to help organizing this event. Some say, we completely infiltrated Area41! The compound of Komplex 457 was pretty awesome. There was enough space in the main hall for to accommodate all viewers, […]
Compass Security is proud to be part and sponsor of the Application Security Forum – Western Switzerland (ASFWS), a conference about application, identity and cyber security which will be take place in a week’s time in Yverdon-les-Bains (15-16 October 2013). I will run the AppSec Lab 1 (featuring the Hacking-Lab), on Wednesday 16 October in the […]
Each year, the world renowned Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) Information Security Group (ISG) invites potential, current and past students to join the weekend conference and meet with well regarded security researchers and experts from academia, UK government and the industries. Part of the tradition is to to have dinner at the wonderfull and […]
Black Hat USA is the most famous conference for IT security professionals and hackers around the globe. The highly skilled speakers provide insights into their ongoing research and release their brand new tools. Of course, the spectacular location at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas contributes to the popularity of this conference as well. This year’s […]
Cyrill Brunschwiler’s talk was selected “among the very best research available today” to be presented side-by-side with the security industries top researchers on the world’s most renowned security conference – Black Hat USA in Las Vegas. He will be speaking on “Energy Fraud and Orchestrated Blackouts: Issues with Wireless Metering Protocols (wM-Bus)”. The work presented […]
Nicht selten werden wir bei Compass von den Medien angefragt, zu dem einen oder anderen, aktuellen Sicherheitsthema Stellung zu nehmen. Meistens springen da unsere Profis, Ivan Bütler und Walter Sprenger, ein, die schon auf eine beachtliche TV-Erfahrung zurückblicken können. Die Fügung wollte es, das es nun mich traf: Der Ostschweizer Sender “TVO” lud mich als […]
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