My name is Ivan Bütler and I'm the co-founder of Compass Security, a leading…
October 1th, 2018
Today I got the e-mail “Mittie Resume.doc” in my e-mail inbox. As I do not know the sender and the mail looks suspicious, I decided to double-check the file for a Virus and/or Trojan horse. I was screen recording my…
December 4th, 2017, Updated April 1st, 2019 (fixing demo page)
The last decade I was teaching my students the five cookie attributes: “path, domain, expire, HttpOnly, Secure”. But now we have another —…
November 16th, 2017
Compass Security sent Bruno and myself (Ivan) to Canada in order to touch base with the info security market in north America. As you might now, we were at SecTor Toronto and Vancouver BC to figure out if this could be our next…
November 14th, 2017
This is the log of our second day at SecTor 2017 at MTCCC in Toronto. After a great day and evening yesterday, I am now eager to see more of the talks and presentations. It was quite difficult to choose the talks, however please find…
November 13th, 2017
Compass Security sent me (Ivan) and Bruno to the SecTor 2017 conference at the MTCCC in Toronto. We are staying in Toronto from Sunday to Wednesday, mainly attending the SecTor 2017 conference. On Wednesday we will heading to…
November 2nd, 2017
I recently received the following LinkedIn message from an Abu Dhabi Police engineer asking about the details of spoofing the IKEA domain. Such visual spoofing (homograph attack) can not only appear in Whats App, instead in almost…
October 25th, 2017
If you run a security awareness campaign, you are considering and managing the human factor, sometimes referred as human risk. Unfortunately, most awareness programs teach the audience a lot about the security…
October 16th, 2017
Ever heard of the Compass X-Mas Badger Challenge? You will get your first digital…
Hacking Training for Fun & Education
Capture the Flag (CTF) is a special kind of information security competition or training. There are two main types of Capture the Flag events: Jeopardy and Attack/Defense.
Compass Security is using the…