✽ PUBLICATIONS
Further to our vulnerability research, our consultants are working around the clock to study and research new hacking techniques that may be used by unauthorized individual/malicious attackers to compromise the security of a network, system and/or software application. The results of our work are compiled in an authoritative report/whitepaper and subsequently published on the Internet with the intent to help organizations better secure their systems.
Moreover, our consultants are regularly invited to present their research work, speak on current security topics and demonstrate offensive and defensive techniques at leading industry events and conferences around Cyprus, such as Bsides Cyprus, Blachat USA and the Cyprus Computer Society's Annual Open Hack Day Event and Computrain's Cybercrime Security Forum.
Posted on 09 November 2020 by
Michalis Nicolaou
Traditional Signature Antivirus Evasion Tests
I woke up this morning and decided that it was a good idea to write a blog post about one of my favorite subjects, Antivirus Evasion. I was in a dilemma about writing something on this topic for many years because the knowledge may not only help pentesters during their engagements, but also blackhat hackers in their malicious activities.
Posted on 25 March 2020 by
Michalis Nicolaou
Road Warrior
Over the past year, we had a concept idea in mind, that got shelved due to the hesitation of the clients to have a device exposing their network to external 3rd parties, for an internal penetration testing engagement (which is fully understandable). However, due to the current circumstances (COVID-19 Lockdown), ...
Posted on 25 March 2020 by
Vasilis Sikkis
My Setup Monstrosity
I have always been a Windows user, mostly because I enjoy playing video games in my free time and having a virtual machine to study and code was working fine for me on my personal PC.
But ever since Microsoft introduced WSL I was wondering if I could change my workflow and create the “ultimate” setup on my Windows machine.
Posted on 29 October 2019 by
Vasilis Sikkis
Sp00fer
Sp00fer is a tool that automates the procedure of sending emails to assess an organization mail server.
Posted on 02 October 2019 by
Vasilis Sikkis
Posted on 25 September 2014 by
Michalis Nicolaou
Advanced Idle Scanning
This presentation was part of an (ISC)2 and ISACA Cyprus Chapter joint event that took place on the 25th of September 2014.
Posted on 16 August 2012 by
Michalis Nicolaou
Packet Sniffing
During the 1st IT Pro Cyprus Community Event, QSecure and CDMA Services Ltd demonstrated simple techniques that hackers employ, to perform Man-In-The-Middle attacks and steal passwords from users.
Posted on 16 August 2012 by
Michalis Nicolaou
Pwning MDaemon
Pwning MDaemon The whitepaper illustrates how skillful attackers can creatively exploit a number of vulnerabilities affecting Alt-N's MDaemon Mail Server to gain remote access on the affected system.
Posted on 13 June 2011 by
Michalis Nicolaou
Hack-Jutsu 101
A live demonstration of real hacking techniques that attempted to educate the viewers on the way hackers think and operate and on the methods and tools they utilize during their attacks.