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Our passion for testing and defending infrastructures, applications and companies often leads us to the point where we want to share our thoughts and experience with the world. Here you can read all about our exploits and research and enjoy our posts, from useful howtos, to published CVEs, management strategies, new exciting tools and much more. As a provider of offensive and defensive IT services, we always welcome readers to reach out to us and ask questions or provide feedback, be it about our blog or our services, which include web-application and network penetration tests, system defense and hardening and management consulting, among others.

Monetary damages through cyber attacks?

date Fri Jul 24, 2015 category Management
tags Awareness Risk Monetary Damage

It is more reality then a ghost story for CIOs and CISOs It is possible that cyber-attacks cause’s monetary damages as we have seen recently at the German government if the infrastructure or better to say the running systems on the infrastructure are heavily manipulated or damaged. In fact of that...

Crypto Meetup Munich

date Wed Jul 15, 2015 category Events
tags Security Crypto Meetup Community

The second round of the new crypto meetup in munich was held yesterday at the office of FTAPI GmbH. The event was the first of hopefully many more to come and a great opportunity to discuss crypto in browsers and other security topics. FTAPI was not only host, but also initiator and organizer of thi...

CVE-2015-5077 – XSS in BlueSpice Wiki

date Thu Jul 09, 2015 category CVE & Disclosures
tags Vulnerability CVE Disclosure

Overview A stored XSS vulnerabily was discovered in the ShoutBox module of the enterprise application "BlueSpice Wiki". Title BlueSpice Shoutbox – Stored Cross-Site Scripting Product BlueSpice for MediaWiki Plugin: ShoutBox Vulnerable version 2.23.1 Fixed version 2.23.1.1 Vendor...

What Is Client Side Access Control?

date Sat Jul 04, 2015 category What is ... ?
tags Security Client Vulnerability Access Development

Client side access control is at hand, when the process or mechanism that enforces a users set permission is implemented on the users end of the application. The issue with this approach is, that a user has full control over their machine, and therefore the upper hand when it comes to protective mec...