Our President, Jose Fernandez, presented ZigBee research at Bsides Charm 2017 in Baltimore on April 29, 2017. The presentation, called Frony Fronius: Exploring ZigBee signals from SolarCity covered IoT (Internet of Threats) findings on commercial solar panel solutions. Part of the presentation asked participants how they felt about e-meters and how companies are beginning to deploy [...]
The Center of Investigative News (Centro de Periodismo Investigativo) published an excellent summary of events from the situation the department of Hacienda faced in early March of 2017. Our early involvement in this event helped the citizens of Puerto Rico during an already difficult economic situation. We will continue to work with the department of Hacienda [...]
CompSec Direct was asked to provide incident response services to the department of Hacienda, the Treasury department of Puerto Rico, on March 7,2017. The department of Hacienda was experiencing daily losses of approximately $20 million dollars a day due to the severity and impact of ransomware on the government network. CompSec Direct’s president, Jose Fernandez, led [...]
CompSec Direct was awarded a Master contract with the state of Maryland on February, 2017. The CATS+ Master Contract lists provides the state with a list of known vendors in applicable functional areas. We solicited and acquired the following functional areas: Functional Area 2 – Web and Internet Systems. A broad range of business solutions and [...]
GTIR 2016 NTT Group published a great threat report for 2016. Quality publication and definitely worth while. Good for CISO’s and Info Sec pros alike. Although some of the areas in the Key Findings are questionable given that we recently saw DDoS attacks above 1Tbs , other areas highlight recent trends that ultimately affect all of [...]
CompSec Direct president, Jose Fernandez, presented an open-source intelligence gathering tool called Shodan-Runner at the Bsides PR security conference hosted on Oct 6,2016 in Puerto Rico. The tool allows users to use external CSV files in conjunction with the Shodan api in python to search for associations between different different fields. Using this tool reduces initial [...]
We hosted a training session on remote incident response operation on Oct 7, 2016. The course was provided “pro-bono” through @Obsidis_NGO, participants paid a small registration fee that covered lunch. Students were able to analyze malware on remote systems in a safe and controlled environment using our RIL platform. We want to thank everyone who attended the session and [...]
An excellent publication from Forcepoint that covers CnC malware, malicious insiders and attribution. Unlike other threat reports, this report covers multiple human factors that are often neglected in technical reports. In some cases, human error and predisposition to reuse malware has lead thee researchers to determine a high probability of configuration reuse which leads to easier detection of [...]
The first is actually more common place. The second assumes the admin that maintains WordPress leaves a backup or older version of the file readable by any visitor that happens to “guess” a filename. In the past, CompSec Direct has been successful employing both techniques for customers during security audits, however the second leaves a 404 [...]
Arstechnica's Dan Goodin has reported that Trustwave is being sued by Affinity Gaming for not eliminating malware presence after a forensic investigation had been done. Mandiant uncovered the malware during a follow up PCI forensic investigation. See full-article below. Security firm sued for filing “woefully inadequate” forensics report
