NEWS

Hack in the Box 2015 Amsterdam

CENSUS security engineer Anestis Bechtsoudis delivered the "Fuzzing Objects d’ART" presentation at the Hack In The Box 2015 conference, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The presentation provided an overview of the new Android Runtime (ART, introduced in the Android Lollipop release) and described the fuzzing mechanism that was required to identify bugs in the ART optimization process. Such bugs could be used by attackers to remotely execute code on any Android device running the Lollipop release.

CONFidence 2015

CENSUS researcher Andrzej Dyjak delivered a presentation on the use of DTrace for dynamic analysis on the OSX platform, entitled "DTrace + OS X = Fun” at the CONFidence 2015 conference.

5th InfoCom Security Conference

CENSUS was one of the sponsors of the 5th InfoCom Security conference, that was held on April 1st, 2015 at the Divani Caravel hotel in Athens, Greece. At the 17:30 session, our director of Security Testing services Mr Nikolaos Tsagkarakis delivered a presentation entitled “‘Malicious’ Technologies” in which he showed how technologies and techniques used by attackers can be used for the production of more secure systems.

5th InfoCom Mobile World Conference

CENSUS will be sponsoring the 5th InfoCom Mobile World conference, that will be held on February 26th, 2015 at the Divani Caravel hotel in Athens, Greece. At the 10:20 session, Dimitris Glynos will be delivering a presentation entitled “The Mobile Threatscape”, describing the current threats to the mobile app ecosystem, with examples coming from real world app security assessments.