by digitaloperatives | Sep 23, 2013 | Capture the Flag
The CSAW CTF 2013 online qualifiers were held last weekend (09/19/2013 through 09/22/2013). The top 10 undergraduate teams will participate in the CSAW CTF finals in November; however the qualifiers were open to everyone and a small team from Digital Operatives...
by digitaloperatives | Aug 23, 2013 | Research
With the recent and ongoing disclosures of what appear to be widespread Internet surveillance programs, the public is becoming increasingly aware of the privacy risks in sending plaintext email. Even connecting to one’s email service provider using a...
by digitaloperatives | Mar 10, 2013 | Research
Recently, Panic Software announced that they had opened up an HDMI display adapter cable for the latest family of Apple iOS devices, which use a proprietary I/O port named Lightning. Inside the HDMI adapter, the engineers at Panic Software found an ARM system on a...
by digitaloperatives | Mar 10, 2013 | Capture the Flag
The Codegate 2013 YUT Preliminary capture-the-flag event wrapped up last week on March 03, 2013. Congratulations to the European NOPSled Team for winning the challenge and congratulations to all who qualified to participate in the final challenge in Korea on April...
by digitaloperatives | Feb 20, 2013 | Security News
Some of you have undoubtedly heard the big news in the exploit world this week. There is a new Adobe Reader/Acrobat exploit in the wild that bypasses ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization), DEP (Data Execution Prevention), and, most importantly, the sandbox...
