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Research By: Yoav Alon, Netanel Ben-Simon Introduction The year 2017 was an inflection point in the vulnerability landscape. The number of new vulnerabilities reported that year was around 14,000, which is over twice the number from the year before (see table below). The probable reason for this is the increased…
Research By: Eyal Itkin, Yannay Livneh and Yaniv Balmas Fax, the brilliant technology that lifted mankind out the dark ages of mail delivery when only the postal service and carrier pigeons were used to deliver a physical message from a sender to a receiver. Technology wise, however, that was a long time ago. Today […]
In mid-2017, The Shadow Brokers exposed NSA files in a leak known as "Lost In Translation".Recently, researcher uncovered "Nazar", a previously-unknown APT that was mentioned in the leak.We decided to dive into each and every one of the components and share our technical analysis. What we found out, is far from being…
Research by: Eyal Itkin TL;DR Cameras. We take them to every important life event, we bring them on our vacations, and we store them in a protective case to keep them safe during transit. Cameras are more than just a tool or toy; we entrust them with our very memories, and so they are very important […]
Research by: Eyal Itkin Overview One of our goals for every research project we work on in Check Point Research is to get an intimate understanding of how software work: What components do they contain? Are they vulnerable? How can attackers exploit these vulnerabilities? And more importantly, how can we protect…