Many already know that I love cars, mainly Japanese ones. Car culture in Japan is huge, and Japan itself is like Meca for some car enthusiast, a place to visit once in your lifetime. …

Nowadays, with the fast pacing appearance of services on the Internet, we are faced constantly with new challenges. More commonly we are seeing new types of attacks to companies that hold customer information. As today, this is an asset that keeps increasing in value. In this article I will introduce…

This article is directed to anyone who wants to build an orb in CircleCI, a continuous integration platform. I will try to explain some issues I had creating an orb for Elixir projects, and some common expected behaviour and functionality that should be included in your new orb. What do you gain from using an orb Every time…

A couple of weeks ago I decided to take a look into one of our service logs, searching for endpoints that could be improved. In order to narrow down my search, I looked straight to the ones that could have the most impact. …

This year we (David Magalhães, Luís Catarino, Paulo Pinto and Pedro Rodrigues) will attend probably the best security conference in Portugal again. Last year we decided to participate in the online CTF and got qualified for the onsite CTF, although we didn’t finish all the challenges. This year we got…

It’s common to be stuck on a problem, sometimes for hours, and all we want is to better understand what is the issue and try to fix it, or find the right person to fix it. I’ve said “find the right person to fix it”, because sometimes it doesn’t depend…

This was my first trip to Azores, the last “piece” of Portugal that was missing from my list, and has been in my sight since my trip to Madeira island. I love food, hiking and to know more about the culture, so Azores was full of it. One day I…

Hoje em dia, devido à proliferação de dispositivos de captação de imagem existe uma tendencia conhecida como “carspotting”. Este conceito passa pela captação de um veículo, normalmente um automóvel, através de uma câmera fotográfica de modo a depois ser partilhado em fóruns ou grupos virtuais de pessoas (por exemplo, Facebook). …

Software development is evolving very fast, and, with this evolution, security issues that have a big impact in the business appear more frequently. In August and more recently, in October, Tavis Ormandy from the Google Project Zero team found new vulnerabilities in GhostScript. GhostScript is an interpreter for PostScript and…