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New whitepaper on Vulnerability Research

A new whitepaper on Vulnerability Research has been added to the Services section of our website.

It features an introduction to our top-down research methodology and presents the key benefits of the census Vulnerability Research service.



New whitepaper on Security Testing

A new whitepaper on Security Testing has been added to the Services section of our website.

It features an introduction to aggressive security testing with the Tiger Team & Penetration Testing services, and presents the key benefits of the census Security Testing approach.



New partnership in Northern Europe

census will be joining forces with Online Systems Ltd. to offer specialised IT security services in the United Kingdom.

More details on this will follow soon.

New whitepaper on Digital Forensics

A new whitepaper on Digital Forensics has been added to the Services section of our website.

It features a gentle introduction to the field of digital investigations and presents the key benefits of the census Digital Forensics service.



Context-keyed Payload Encoding — AthCon 2010

census will be presenting “Context-keyed Payload Encoding: Fighting the Next Generation of IDS” at AthCon 2010. AthCon is a fresh IT security conference which will take place this summer in Greece! Our presentation will cover the latest in IDS evasion techniques for targeted shellcode and will feature new Metasploit modules implementing the presented techniques.

…you don’t want to miss out on this, so register now!



Binding the Daemon — Black Hat Europe 2010

census will be presenting “Binding the Daemon”, an in-depth analysis of FreeBSD kernel stack and kernel heap exploitation methodologies at Black Hat Europe 2010. This year the European Black Hat Briefings conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain. We hope to see you there!

Hellenic Air Force Academy free/open source event

census participated in the free/open source event held last month (Friday 23rd of October) at the Hellenic Air Force Academy (Σχολή Ικάρων).

Our talk presented an overview of the available free/open source software that can be used to build complete security solutions for public offices and infrastructure. Furthermore, we analysed recorded cyberwarfare incidents and how the open source model can aid in establishing robust defenses. The slides from our presentation are available here (in Greek).

We would like to cordially thank Professor Antonios Andreatos for inviting us to the event and congratulate him for his organisational efforts.

Secure programming in C talk at the EL/LAK developer conference

census will be participating in the 4th Greek Free/Open Source Developer Conference organized by EL/LAK in Athens, Greece on the 19th and 20th of June!

Our talk on Saturday will focus on security issues that manifest during software development using the C programming language. Although there has been extensive coverage of this topic in the past, our presentation will provide an up-to-date analysis of programming bugs that potentially lead to security issues.

During the lunch break on Saturday there will also be a PGP/CACert key signing party. See here for more details (in Greek).

We hope to see you there!