Cybersprint Blog

Serial winners Rik van Duijn and Wesley Neelen don’t spend much time preparing for Hâck the Hague and partly attribute their successes to luck. Although the chance of getting lucky is not transferable, the serial winners do want to share several tips to increase your chances of success. These tips include things such as undivided focus, working in a structured manner and documenting your activities. It's all aimed at enabling you to do as much as possible in the shortest period of time.

The web is in a continuous state of dynamic development, with websites being created, updated, and deleted every day. These websites are the digital equivalent of a rented property. Similar to physical properties, visitors will need a precise address to visit you.

It's the term we use the most: Digital Footprint. It is the foundation of your organisation’s digital infrastructure. It’s the starting point of your IT security policies, configuration database management, vulnerability mitigation, and much more. In this blog, we’ll shortly describe what drives the need for a Digital Footprint solution, share our definition of the term, and explain how it minimises the risks to your brand.

APIs (Application Programming Interface) are used by applications to communicate and interact between systems, access data, and much more. It makes sure you get the correct response on a request. However, if someone were to intercept this request-response, they could potentially misuse the data or alter the process. Cyber-criminals scan the internet for unsecured APIs on a daily basis. If not properly secured, this can lead to unauthorised access to internal data or customer information. What’s more, in some cases it allows tampering with data directly from an exposed API. This technical article focuses on mapping and discovering Swagger APIs throughout the EU. We will present how we discovered those APIs and checked for misconfigured examples. We will illustrate each step using screenshots, present the results, and provide defensive recommendations. Research conducted by Soufian El Yadmani, Security Analyst at Cybersprint The interactive map below shows how many Swagger APIs we found, and in which region. You can click, drag and zoom to see how many Swagger APIs were found in your area.    

PostNL is the largest mail order and delivery organisation in the Netherlands, also operating in Belgium and Luxemburg. It has made mail and parcels accessible for over 220 years, growing to become one of the largest private employers in the Netherlands. Over the years, the organisation has grown through expansions, mergers and acquisitions, making its digital footprint rather complex. Gunther Cleijn, Cyber Security Officer explains how he and his team work to ensure the security and daily productivity of the organisation. 

Every now and then, there’s a new headline about an organisation hit by a ransomware attack. How parts of their infrastructure and sensitive data was suddenly encrypted, impacting customers, productivity, and their reputation. What would you do in such a situation? Pay the ransom? Or should you never negotiate with criminals?

We know of Software as a Service, where organisations outsource parts of their digital infrastructure to third parties for the sake of improved user experience or increased security, for instance. As a successful business model, it is actually not that shocking something similar is happening in the world of cyber-crime. The people who know how to build ransomware sell their software on the dark web and offer it as Ransomware as a Service (RaaS), turning even rookie cyber-criminals into money-making hackers. How does it work, exactly? And what can you do to protect your systems?

IT governance framework helps to ease everyday processes, increases productivity levels, and scripts what to do in case of an incident. However, creating and implementing an organisation-wide IT governance framework is no easy feat, yet so crucial.

2020 marks our five-year anniversary! To celebrate, we have published five video interviews about our journey so far.