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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.

Daten- und Festplattenverschlüsselung mit Veracrypt

date Sat May 04, 2019 category Defense
tags Security Crypto Howto Privacy Data Encryption

This post is only available in german. Freitag, 03. Mai 2019 09:49 Im April haben wir auf unserem Youtube Channel zwei Videos zu Veracrypt veröffentlicht. Darin wird gezeigt, wie mit Veracrypt sowohl gesammte Partitionen oder Festplatten, als auch Teilbereiche einer Festplatte als so genann...

SSH public key verification with FingerprintHash

date Tue Nov 17, 2015 category Defense
tags Security Client Howto Access Crypto SSH

Whenever I'm connecting to a new remote server via SSH, I tend to verify the fingerprint to make sure that I'm actually connecting to my own machine. Usually it's not that big a deal as I'm simply comparing two strings, but what if those two strings are created with two different hashing algorithms?...

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...