Overview It’s about time this blog explored some new areas of cyber security. We think it could be fun to dive into the topic of IoT and hardware hacking. So what the hell is IoT. Well if you are reading this my guess is that you already have a good idea but this is what wikipedia says: Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks.…

Introduction This blog is usually about technical matters within the cyber security arena. But now and then I feel like sharing nontechnical stuff that still matters within this context. Now is one of these times. I recently attended the Swedish conference Security Fest and thought Id share my impressions. I have covered Security Fest back in 2022 when I did a post about some of the major conferences abroad and in Sweden.…

On the 8:e mars 2024 the qulifiers for Säkerhets-SM took place. The CTF is described like this: Säkerhets-SM is a national Capture The Flag competition for high school students. The competition focuses on problem-solving in the areas of programming, cryptography, binary exploitation, reverse engineering, web security, and forensics. The tasks range from beginner-friendly to quite challenging, so even if you have never participated in a CTF before, you can still take part.…

Hack The Box arranged Cyber Apocalyse 2024 between 9 Mar - 14 Mar. It was a five day event with a 20 person per team limit. This CTF is in the usual Jeopardy style and divided into categories of misc, reversing, forensics, web, crypto, pwn, blockchain and hardware. As you can see a lot of players joied for this years event. There’s plenty of challenges to choose from but the ones that involved most members from our team this year was a challenge called Confinement.…