VolgaCTF is one of the largest hacker competitions of the Russian Federation. This year, our one-year-old hacker team, c0r3dump, successfully qualified for the VolgaCTF Final by achieving the 16th place in the qualification round in March. The 9th VolgaCTF Final was held in Holiday Inn, Samara between September 17 (Tuesday) and September 20 (Friday). 19 […]

In this post, we explain the impact of prospective quantum computers on current implementations of cryptographic primitives.

This blog post was written by Márton Horváth who worked on implementing a monitor for Certificate Transparency logs in the context of his student semester project. As a proof-of-concept, he used the monitor he created to collect information about logged certificates issued in Hungary or issued to Hungarian web sites. This blog post contains the […]

This blog post, written by István Telek, is the last post in a series of blog posts on transforming the Raspberry Pi into a security enhanced IoT platform. This last post describes how we implemented a very basic integrity monitoring function as a trusted application running in OP-TEE.

Introduction

Runtime integrity monitoring can enhance […]

This blog post, written by Márton Juhász, is the fifth in a series of blog posts on transforming the Raspberry Pi into a security enhanced IoT platform. This post specifically will explain how to convert the Raspberry Pi into a WiFi access point such that it can perform some gateway-like functionality. First, we describe […]

This blog post, written by Márton Juhász, is the fourth in a series of blog posts on transforming the Raspberry Pi into a security enhanced IoT platform. Previous posts discussed building a custom Linux system with Buildroot, installing OP-TEE, and verified boot on the Raspberry Pi. This post will describe some OS hardening options […]

This blog post, written by István Telek, is the third post in a series of blog posts on transforming the Raspberry Pi into a security enhanced IoT platform. It describes how you can implement a verified boot process on the Raspberry pi.

Introduction

Securing the boot process is the first step in securing an […]

This blog post, written by Szilárd Dömötör, is the second post in a series of blog posts on transforming the Raspberry Pi into a security enhanced IoT platform. The first post explained how to build and install the default OP-TEE implementation for the Raspberry Pi 3. This one describes how you can build […]

This blog post, written by Márton Juhász, is the first in a series of blog posts on transforming the Raspberry Pi into a security enhanced IoT platform.

This blog post explains how to build and install the default OP-TEE implementation for the Raspberry Pi 3. The easiest way is to follow the steps described […]

The Internet has grown beyond a network of laptops, PCs, and large servers: it also connects millions of small embedded devices. This new trend is called the Internet of Things, or IoT in short, and it enables many new and exciting applications. At the same time, IoT also comes with a number of risks related […]