The next two days, March 14th and 15th, the Belgian IT world is joining up in Brussels for Infosecurity. One on the seminars will be hosted by our Senior Threat Researcher David Sancho on the topic of digital extortion, on which he has written an elaborate research paper. Continue reading
Everything can be hacked, even democracy itself. Andrés Sepúlveda described in an interview how for a decade he helped political parties in South-America to win elections. He hacked other political parties for them, got all their secrets, … Continue reading
Apart from Infosecurity coming up, March will be all about webinars. There’s several hot topics on which we would like to share our knowledge and expertise. In these interactive webinars you will learn all about the following topics: Continue reading
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are a hot topic in the security industry today, thanks to the prevalence of software that is often riddled with security flaws and legacy protocols that were designed without any type of security. Many of these systems were designed in a different time, when the world was quite different. ICS systems used to be isolated, Internet access was rare and expensive, and hacking knowledge was not as widespread as it is today. It would be very difficult for a programmer to have foreseen some of the security issues that have now come about. As a result, however, this often translates to cases where solutions are developed to get the most out of the system while maintaining a cost-conscious mindset. As a result, there are cases where software and protocols that were never meant to be part of an ICS system end up as part of such a system. Continue reading