Blog – Identeco

Account takeover and concert tickets

What do the world's most famous pop star and account takeovers and data leaks have in common? What does this have to do with platform protection? Find out here!

Stealer logs: How hackers gain access to vehicle functions through stolen login data
Together with ZDF WISO, we show how criminals can use stolen login data from stealer logs to locate, open and drive away cars.
Reading time:
7 min
Published:
December 09, 2024
:
Rene Neff
Tags:
Stealer, Account Takeover, Leak Data, Stealer Malware, MFA, Attacks, Password
How much code coverage is enough?
Code coverage is an important benchmark for the quality of software tests. But how much coverage really makes sense for your project?
Reading time:
6 min
Published:
November 14, 2024
:
Pascua Theus & Fabian Odenthal
Tags:
Code Coverage, Software Testing, DevOps
Protection against identity theft through the extension of PHP with Argon2d
By extending PHP with Argon2d, users and service providers can now be even better protected actively and preventively against identity theft on the Internet. Read more about the implementation and the dangers of identity theft in this blog article and find out how you can protect yourself and your users against it.
Reading time:
12 min
Published:
September 26, 2024
:
Leo Schmidt & Rene Neff
Tags:
Identity theft, Memory-hard, Hash function, Argon2d, PHP
The Banshee Information Stealer: The New Threat for Macs
A new type of malware is spreading and primarily infects macOS devices. The spread of Banshee relies particularly on human factors.
Reading time:
7 min
Published:
August 23, 2024
:
Frank Zickenheiner & Rene Neff
Tags:
Stealer, Banshee
Phishing #7: Social Engineering
In this special edition of our phishing series, we want to show how social engineering works in real life and how it can also affect the digital world.
Reading time:
5 min
Published:
August 16, 2024
:
Aura Pop & Rene Neff
Tags:
Account Takeover, Phishing
Shoulder Surfing
Who's looking over your shoulder? In this blog article, we want to talk about a very non-technical way of stealing data: shoulder surfing.
Reading time:
10 min
Published:
August 07, 2024
:
Frank Zickenheiner
Tags:
Shoulder Surfing, Data security
Is old leak data still a problem for my accounts?
We explain why older leak data is a security risk, the dangers of forgotten accounts, and why security awareness is important when dealing with old leak data.
Reading time:
7 min
Published:
April 08, 2024
:
Frank Zickenheiner
Tags:
Leak data, Data security
Where do you hide your passwords?
Why is it always Easter at Identeco? And what do Easter eggs and passwords have in common? Sure: both Easter eggs and passwords are hidden - and found! But where do you hide your passwords?
Reading time:
6 min
Published:
March 28, 2024
:
Frank Zickenheiner
Tags:
Easter, Data security
A Pentest for Identeco
The Identeco solutions were subjected to a penetration test. Reason enough to talk about security tests, penetration tests and code audits.
Reading time:
4 min
Published:
March 21, 2024
:
Frank Zickenheiner & Rene Neff
Tags:
IT Security, Cyber Attack, Pentest, Code Audit

Account takeover and concert tickets

Stealer logs: How hackers gain access to vehicle functions through stolen login data

How much code coverage is enough?

Protection against identity theft through the extension of PHP with Argon2d

The Banshee Information Stealer: The New Threat for Macs

Phishing #7: Social Engineering

Shoulder Surfing

Is old leak data still a problem for my accounts?

Where do you hide your passwords?

A Pentest for Identeco