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We're a small team of software engineers, data scientists,
and hackers creating clever solutions to hard problems.
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Software
We're open source enthusiasts! We release most of our work open source, and we have a few commercial offerings as well.
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Security
We provide penetration testing and security review services for companies of all sizes—from small
businesses to multinational.
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Research
We perform grant-based R&D in parternship with universities, research institutes, NGOs and private sector companies.
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Publications & Public Speaking
Conference Talk
punk.sh: Mass Scanning All The Things
The architecture of punk.sh and exploring this unique security dataset — BloomCon 2018.
WatchResearch
Dark Web Map
An interactive visualization of 6.6k Tor onions and a research project to measure and explain the dark web.
View MapOnline Course
How to Hack and Defend Your Website in 3 Hours
Free online web security class. Perfect for beginners!
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In The Media
CNBC
The dark web and how to access it
Sat, 14 April 2018
MacKenzie Sigalos: Tor is comprised of people from all over the planet who are donating their computers to the network. It has more than 7,000 relays to choose from. Bouncing your request around to random computers all over the world makes it much harder for people to find you.
The Register
Zombie PCs are for crimelord chumps
Wed, 14 Aug 2013
John Leyden: Botnets have been the main vector of cybercrime for more than a decade, so the possibility that a different approach might be brought into play is possibly as significant as when spammers switched from using open mail relays to malware-infected PCs.
Motherboard
Questa mappa interattiva rivela che il dark web non è poi così oscuro
Thur, 15 Mar 2018
Riccardo Coluccini: Il mondo del dark web — che ricordiamo essere solo una parte del più ampio deep web — è spesso associato ai più oscuri traffici illegali e alle attività più violente e atroci a cui la mente umana abbia mai pensato…
Forbes
Meet The Darpa-Backed Hackers Building A Google For Every Web Weakness
Mon, 25 May 2015
Thomas Fox-Brewster: Hacker culture is dying. A scene that used to be replete with anticorporate sentiment and profreedom ideals is being sold out by cybersecurity capitalists more concerned with making a quick buck…