Hack Our Train

This year, in an effort to raise awareness about IoT security, we launched the Hack Our Train challenge. For over three weeks, a model train tirelessly chugged on its tracks inside our IoT village at Co.Station Brussels and then once more for two days at BruCON 2017. We provided it with an emergency brake system … Continue reading Hack Our Train →

Don’t be lazy with P4ssw0rd$

Three challenges to making passwords user-friendly Following the interview of Bill Burr, author of NIST’s 2003 paper on Electronic Authentication, in which he announced that he regrets much of what he wrote, we stop and think. Why was the standard putting users at risk? Paraphrasing History: “Tout pour le peuple; rien par le peuple”. Perfectly … Continue reading Don’t be lazy with P4ssw0rd$ →

NVISO at Hack Belgium

Last week, a few of us attended the first edition of Hack Belgium. Describing what Hack Belgium is turns out to be a bit difficult: is it a conference? A hackaton? A hands-on workshop? A technology fair? A pitch? In my view, it's all of those combined - and that made the event so interesting! … Continue reading NVISO at Hack Belgium →

CSCBE Challenge Write-up – Sufbo

The Sufbo challenge was tackled during the Cyber Security Challenge qualifiers and proved to be very difficult to solve. This write-up gives you a possible way of solving it! Credits All challenges of the Cyber Security Challenge are created by security professionals from many different organisations. The Sufbo challenge in particular was created by Adriaan Dens, … Continue reading CSCBE Challenge Write-up – Sufbo →

Testimonial of Stefaan Truijen

Hi, I'm Stefaan Truijen and in 2014-2015 I did my master thesis at the department of computer science at KULeuven. I assessed the susceptibility of modern web browsers to RAM scrapers in collaboration with NVISO. Security had always been one of my passions, so I was excited to get started. Writing a thesis is an … Continue reading Testimonial of Stefaan Truijen →

Testimonial of Nick Van Haver

Hi, I'm Nick Van Haver and I want to reflect briefly on my master thesis which I have worked out in cooperation with NVISO and the Ghent University. NVISO helped me in many ways while providing me with a lot of freedom to choose the course of my thesis. They showed me a lot of … Continue reading Testimonial of Nick Van Haver →

Cyber Security Challenge Belgium 2015 – Solving the NVISO Lottery challenge

This is the fourth and final blog post in the Cyber Security Challenge Belgium 2015 (CSCBE) solutions series. This time, we're taking a look at one of the more programming oriented challenges: The NVISO Lottery. The NVISO Lottery The students were given the following info: "Come and throw away your money at the NViso Lottery!" … Continue reading Cyber Security Challenge Belgium 2015 – Solving the NVISO Lottery challenge →