Category: Research

Cloud Security

IT services in the cloud are becoming more and more popular these days. Many companies have already made their way to the cloud or are in the process of migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. Obviously, this offers a number of advantages: fast service delivery, high scalability, seemingly unlimited resources, and very high availability at…
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ITSECX

IT-SECX 2019: OSINT Application for the 4th Power

At this year’s IT-SECX at the FH St. Pölten on 08.11.2019 Bernhard will give an insight into the possibilities and benefits of Open Source Intelligence tools in the field of journalism. https://itsecx.fhstp.ac.at/programm-2019/ The talk will highlight the suitability and possibility of mechanisms and tools, which are mainly used in OSINT or in the information gathering…
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ITSECX

IT-SECX 2018 Talk

We are happy to announce that Bernhard will be speaking at this year’s IT Security Community Exchange (IT-SECX) at FH St. Pölten on the 16th of November. He  will shed some light on the hacking activities that influenced the 2016 US presidential election, especially in relation to the detailed allegations that are described in the indictment. As the detailed procedures of…
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Libreelec and passwd

Raspberry Pi Distro’s Root Login

Have you ever set up a Raspberry Pi using one of the popular Linux distributions like Raspbian or LibreELEC and worried about adding a potentially insecure device into your home network? We’ve seen dozens of cases were IoT devices were more of a use to criminals (e.g. as part of a botnet attacking other systems)…
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Security is guaranteed

IP Camera Security Horror

Would you like to buy a nice (and cheap) wireless surveillance camera to monitor your entrance or other areas of your property? That was exactly what I wanted and after doing some research I found hundreds of offers for wireless cameras with Wi-Fi, SD-Card Storage, Pan & Tilt functionality and much more between 20 and…
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